PG&E NEW PROPOSED RATES BEFORE STATE PUCA

By Jerry Henry on April 18, 2023.

Northern Californiaas largest utility company, Pacific Gas and Electric Co., and its two Southern California counterparts are seeking to restructure how their residential electric customers are billed, potentially reducing costs for lower-income households while resulting in higher-income customers paying more.

Their proposal, filed this week with the California Public Utilities Commission, is a response to a new state law that changed the requirements for how public utilities charge customers, PG&E said. Under the plan, monthly bills would be broken out into two parts: a fixed infrastructure charge, tiered by customer income level as required by the law, and an electricity use charge, which would vary based on consumption.