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More PG&E rate hikes? Blame Democrats’ green madness

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PG&E continues its sacred duty of keeping the lights on (and the bills skyrocketing) for roughly 16 million hapless souls across 70,000 square miles of northern and central California. 

From foggy northern-most sleepy town Eureka down to Bakersfield, and from the Pacific ocean to the Sierra peaks, this utility behemoth serves the San Francisco Bay Area, Fresno, Sacramento, and a patchwork of farms, suburbs, and mountain towns. 

With about 5.5 million electric accounts and 4.5 million gas ones, PG&E serves homes, businesses, factories, and orchards alike. Because who doesn’t love a monopoly that touches every part of daily life?

The company’s new 2027–2030 General Rate Case is a masterpiece of understatement: an 8% revenue grab in 2027 alone ($1.24 billion extra), followed by 6.1% annual hikes. 

PG&E, ever the optimist, promises your combined gas-and-electric bill will stay basically flat in 2027 thanks to some expiring temporary charges. 

The California Public Utility Commission’s Public Advocates Office, however, isn’t buying the corporate fairy tale. 

It projects average bills jumping 16% in 2027 and a wallet-crushing 30% by 2030. 

Translation: The typical household gets slapped with another $444 a year starting in 2027, climbing toward $840 extra annually by 2030. 

Ouch. This on top of monthly energy bills that already might be several hundred dollars –– and for some, significantly north of that? Because nothing says........

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