As a consumer, I am more angry at the Public Utility Commission more than PGE. PGE can not raise rate without the approval of the PUC. PUC’s job is to look after the consumer, instead they sleep with PGE .
But the PUC is run by leftists. Nut jobs whom could care less about cost. They won’t be impacted so, who the heck cares? California will be a great place to live once the state gets a republican governor. Until then, California is toxic because of the garbage left.
I'd go one further and say PG&E shouldn't even exist as a privately owned, for-profit corporation. Should be seized and divided up into smaller government utilities and/or co-ops.
PG&E needs to cut the bonuses & pay increases for the executives INSTEAD of these high prices. I am sick of being nickeled & dimed by this greedy company who took profits instead of reinvesting into grid safety & fire prevention. This is just pure unadulterated bu**sh*t.
My PG&E bill came out to $500 this month. For a small house with 3 people. Update 1/28 : payed the $500 2weeks ago, received next months bill today $620 😢 what is going on ?
Ever wonder why PG&E's CEO has a yearly 14 million dollar compensation package? Every wonder why PG&E runs commercial adds telling us all what a great job they're doing? Ever wonder why, when you're the only game in town, you use the customers money to fund those commercials then turn around and ask the CPUC to raise the rate of those same customers? Ever wonder why PG&E "donated" over $800,000 to governor Newsom and his wives "documentary" company? Ever wonder why the CPUC (appointed positions by the governor) keeps on approving all PG&E's rate increases? Ever wonder why there is so much corruption in this state?
PG&E is a mass murderer. We pay 30 to 40% above the national average. Want to know why everything here is so expensive? Because energy costs are inflationary. Its management is subpar. Investment banking failures from the Ivy League who go into utility management because it is less competitive. Why should we pay for the greed of an organization who failed to do maintenance and caused the San Bruno and the Wildfire Disasters? At one point, the head of Engineering wasn’t even an engineer. It was some loser MBA who cut costs left and right leading to those catastrophes. The company tried to be the next GE and invest in solar and wind instead of providing reliable and safe service at a reasonable cost. Somehow, rate payers are on the hook for their piss poor management and the bad advice of McKinsey. And Newsom and the corrupt CPUC are in the company’s pocket. Joy.
PG&E is a corporation. Corporations are not supposed to have emotions and they ARE supposed to generate a profit and satisfy shareholders. The government failed in its duty to properly oversee and regulate the corporation.
Y’all are paying more for heat than I do in Pennsylvania and I have an oil furnace and a home that’s over 100 years old and is poorly insulated. Crazy!
the entire government and whatever other powers that be are one big monopoly... they aren't even trying very hard to even keep up the illusion of choice anymore
When I lived in Texas electric companies competed for my business. I paid 9 cents a kilowatt hour for 100% renewable energy! My electric bill for a 3 bed/2 ba 1300 sq foot house was $90 in the brutal Texas summer lol
The PG&E infrastructure changes are their responsibility. They should & can make those changes without shuffling the cost to the customers. PG&E can make up the cost from future & continued use by the customer. It has never been the case where PG&E lower the cost? So we can't expect them to lower the costs once all the infrastructure changes have been made.
We bail them out with our tax dollars thanks to Newsom Everytime there’s a fire anyway… it’s a win win for them whether they do their job or not… it’ a monopoly
@@ACJOSOit’s not funny! Red states and blue states have both been fooled by swamp creatures on Both sides of the aisle! Nobody in their right mind would have voted for these policies if the politicians responsible were transparent from the beginning!
Last winter a PG&E transistor blew out in our neighborhood. Electricity was down for 3 days. I submitted a claim that would refund me $75. I got a letter saying, "due to natural causes" they were denying my refund. Ridiculous.
@@patmcbride9853 not in the way they're doing it. I'm a business owner and I don't and can't pass on costs for me upgrading or maintenance for my equipment. Key words " cost of doing business". California's BS all the way around is just to charge the people even for their waste and corruption.
@@jamesdalton7191 Well, you just need to get Greasy Gavin and the Pinheads under the dome to create the BBC (Beleaguered Business Commission) and have them "allow" you to pass on all costs and force people to do business with you.
@@patmcbride9853 it doesn't work like that. Customers will go somewhere else if prices are too high. What other options do we have for electricity? None so PGE price gouges us. You must not live in Greedafornia.
@@jamesdalton7191 I escaped. My monthly electric bill is less than half what I paid in Kalifornistan, and my house is bigger, and heated by a heat pump instead of the nice natural gas heater I had before moving.
Why are we paying for upgrades and improvement? We should be paying just for electric and gas usage. It’s like me asking for a pay raise just because I want to upgrade my home.
They will keep charging whatever the stupid "customer " will pay. Over here in Chiang Mai, Thailand, my electric bill (no gas) was $18.00 last month. Something is very wrong with the system back in the USA.
Every one gets a raise but the one's paying the bills and what's bs is a person could be gone from their home for a month or more and still get charged the same as if you're home worse than criminals and it's legal blood suckers
Why should we be paying for their advancement? That should be coming out of their profits! If I start a restaurant, I cant start charging more and more simply because I want a bee oven! I have to find the money myself snd the recoup the investment with better food thus justifing higher prices. Pge wants ratepayers to pay their legal liability for the wildfires that their neglect caused.
For electricity and gas? Heck, my bill was over $200 this past month and we have a propane tank, so it's only for electric. it might be cheaper to run my generator all day for our electricity needs. Yeah, and their "paper cut" increases are no different than my property taxes going up every year, compounded from the year before.
"... We're aggressively focused on finding new ways to work so that we can keep future bill increases at or below a..." Here's an idea ... Cut admins over-inflated salaries?
While NEM 3.0 makes solar less attractive, the increased rates make solar pv more attractive and gives motivation to completely disconnect from the grid entirely.
Maybe consumers forget that PGE was bankrupt from wildfire lawsuits. PGE has no capital prior bankruptcy, the customer always pays. Deal made by Newsom, PUC and PGE; 1) PGE had to do some flips or 2) California would take PGE over as a socialist state operated utility. (Imagine silicone valley tech powered by a socialist state operated utility controlled by legislature) PGE is now doing the flips including grid upgrades, tree/shrub cutting, rate hikes and paying less for homeowner solar electric. Buckle up for PUC approved electric utilities billed like progressive taxes based on income. It's good Robin Hood progressives taking again from rich and middle class to "fairly" give to poor. Of course that coming utility bill will also be state taxed, so a sneaking state way to raise income taxes thru your utility bill. Let them be clear why they press you to use electric power for everything... you ain't seen nothing yet baby !
Feel sorry for you guys. In the midwest my home electricity bill is $60 a month except in summer when I run the AC. Gas bill is $30 a month except a few months in winter where it is up to $100 a month.
Well, why should PG&E be expected to pay for upgrades to their infrastructure that will enable them to increase their profits? And with the PUC in their pocket they won't be.
They should've been making these improvements for the wildfires the entire time instead of giving dividends to their largest shareholders and doing stock buyback it should've been investing at money and infrastructure and they should be punished for that and that why do we have privately owned energy anyway this would be a public utility and a co-op at the very worst This for profit horseshit is what brings us to this point where even if you put solar on your roof throwing in buy back your electricity $.10 on the dollar electricity! I want to D centralize you getting solar panels on your roof they don't want you to do thatPG&E is just straight up evil and all there is to it as sooner California touch ties with these evil evil people the better
Pg&e is double dipping with rate hike, and with the peek hours, with peek hours, the rate doubles if you use power between 4 to 9p. My bill was high before 2024 at 70$ month. For a 20x22 stuido. Now I just say my bill at 170$ because it was cold, and we use heat during peek hours and cook during peek hours witch the peek hours FUCKING wrong. Pg&e should not double dip like this and if pge wants raise our bill. Then drop the peek hours. Because peek hour is just predatory practice.
mine went from $129. To $262 in 12 months. I have one light, one modem, and one refrigerator. Everything else I own that plugs in, is unplugged. I am lucky, not to use my gas heat, and not to use much of my gas stove. Im a senior, on soc sec fixed income. This is why seniors are having to move into our cars...its only a matter of time, for me.
Meanwhile PG&E has spent how much on stock buybacks? Couldn't find a number but usually its hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars yearly, then complain rate hikes are needed to keep the business running. If they fail again your tax dollars are there to bail them out again
I don't understand this. I live by myself in a 1200 square-foot home I grew up in Minnesota I do not use the heat hardly at all maybe once a week twice a week in the winter I keep all the lights off I dry my clothes on a line and somehow my electricity bill is still hovering around 200 bucks a month it doesn't make any sense my subsidizing somebody else on my blockmy bill should be under $100 for how little electricity I actually use
This is why I'm converting my house to pure electric and installed a large solar array. Later I'll add batteries and possibly a wind turbine and these suckers will see nearly zero money from me forever.
We need those rate increases to help to pay PG&E CEO Patricia Pope's $50+ *million* in annual compensation. If the CEO takes in that much, imagine the rest of the executive team's total compensation.
I guess we know what all those that got a minimum wage increase will be spending that fat wad of cash on. Gotta pay for infrastructure for everyone else's EVs!
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As a consumer, I am more angry at the Public Utility Commission more than PGE. PGE can not raise rate without the approval of the PUC. PUC’s job is to look after the consumer, instead they sleep with PGE .
100% agree. 👍
Wow! Someone who actually understands the process. Bravo!
So true!
But the PUC is run by leftists. Nut jobs whom could care less about cost. They won’t be impacted so, who the heck cares? California will be a great place to live once the state gets a republican governor. Until then, California is toxic because of the garbage left.
I'd go one further and say PG&E shouldn't even exist as a privately owned, for-profit corporation. Should be seized and divided up into smaller government utilities and/or co-ops.
PG&E needs to cut the bonuses & pay increases for the executives INSTEAD of these high prices. I am sick of being nickeled & dimed by this greedy company who took profits instead of reinvesting into grid safety & fire prevention. This is just pure unadulterated bu**sh*t.
Why should they? They own the governor
Nickeled and dimed? You mean 5O dollared and 100 dollared.
I have never seen the Public Utilities Commission ever deny PG&E a rate hike.
PG&E got the PUC in their back pocket .
Because democrats love higher prices it's more tax revenue
All this to pay $54M yearly salary of the PGE CEO. What a sad state of affairs!
My PG&E bill came out to $500 this month. For a small house with 3 people.
Update 1/28 : payed the $500 2weeks ago, received next months bill today $620 😢 what is going on ?
Don't worry. PG&E pays off Governor Newsom regularly. Oh, wait. I mean there's no reason for PG&E and Governor Newsom to worry.
that tangled web goes down a rabbit hole and beyond but ultimately it all ends up at the root cause of evil
Heating your home has become a luxury
I am dressed like I am snow camping
@@ronaldmcdonald3965 I know it's rediculous!
1:55 they forgot to mention bonuses and pay increases for executives
Ever wonder why PG&E's CEO has a yearly 14 million dollar compensation package? Every wonder why PG&E runs commercial adds telling us all what a great job they're doing? Ever wonder why, when you're the only game in town, you use the customers money to fund those commercials then turn around and ask the CPUC to raise the rate of those same customers? Ever wonder why PG&E "donated" over $800,000 to governor Newsom and his wives "documentary" company? Ever wonder why the CPUC (appointed positions by the governor) keeps on approving all PG&E's rate increases? Ever wonder why there is so much corruption in this state?
PG&E is a mass murderer. We pay 30 to 40% above the national average. Want to know why everything here is so expensive? Because energy costs are inflationary. Its management is subpar. Investment banking failures from the Ivy League who go into utility management because it is less competitive. Why should we pay for the greed of an organization who failed to do maintenance and caused the San Bruno and the Wildfire Disasters? At one point, the head of Engineering wasn’t even an engineer. It was some loser MBA who cut costs left and right leading to those catastrophes. The company tried to be the next GE and invest in solar and wind instead of providing reliable and safe service at a reasonable cost. Somehow, rate payers are on the hook for their piss poor management and the bad advice of McKinsey. And Newsom and the corrupt CPUC are in the company’s pocket. Joy.
Don't forget the CEO has raked in close to 40 million in salary in the last 3 years… she is out of control.
Pg&e has zero shame or sympathy. They want their profit and thats it.
You can tank Gavin Newsom for high cost of insurance, high gas tax and now high utility bill. Remember to vote.
Yeah like if we should take a red state like Texas as an example 😂😂😂
They have literally killed people.
PG&E is a corporation.
Corporations are not supposed to have emotions and they ARE supposed to generate a profit and satisfy shareholders.
The government failed in its duty to properly oversee and regulate the corporation.
Thank you Gov. Newsom and "greenies". 😊😊😊
Newsom is allowing price gouging and nobody is calling him out on it.
Y’all are paying more for heat than I do in Pennsylvania and I have an oil furnace and a home that’s over 100 years old and is poorly insulated. Crazy!
PG&E has just recorded some of their most profitable quarters!! Absolute corruption. PG&E needs to be broken up NOW.
They have a monopoly so they will do what they want. There's no competition to keep them honest.
the entire government and whatever other powers that be are one big monopoly... they aren't even trying very hard to even keep up the illusion of choice anymore
When I lived in Texas electric companies competed for my business. I paid 9 cents a kilowatt hour for 100% renewable energy! My electric bill for a 3 bed/2 ba 1300 sq foot house was $90 in the brutal Texas summer lol
The PG&E infrastructure changes are their responsibility. They should & can make those changes without shuffling the cost to the customers.
PG&E can make up the cost from future & continued use by the customer.
It has never been the case where PG&E lower the cost? So we can't expect them to lower the costs once all the infrastructure changes have been made.
We bail them out with our tax dollars thanks to Newsom Everytime there’s a fire anyway… it’s a win win for them whether they do their job or not… it’ a monopoly
Insane bills. $620
PG&E is not just raising 8 times the rate of inflation. PG&E is the cause of Inflation in the Bay Area.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
As a Bay Area Resident, I'm shocked that people are mad. We vote for this crap for the last two decades. Newsom and his cronies need to go.
ITS SO FUNNY!!!!! You guyz are doomed!
@@ACJOSOit’s not funny! Red states and blue states have both been fooled by swamp creatures on Both sides of the aisle! Nobody in their right mind would have voted for these policies if the politicians responsible were transparent from the beginning!
LOL, you want california utilities to be like Texas??? wtf are you a moron?
😂😂😂 how many rate hikes until charging our electric only mandated vehicle costs more than a gas/diesel fill up?
The same in Vacaville
All my neighbors are furious
DO SOMETHING!
🤬🤬🤬
Thanks to the Great leadership in our state. Our tax money at work
How much are the Executives getting in bonuses??????.
Last winter a PG&E transistor blew out in our neighborhood. Electricity was down for 3 days. I submitted a claim that would refund me $75. I got a letter saying, "due to natural causes" they were denying my refund. Ridiculous.
It’s already stupid expensive
As a Dem, i will be voting different this year
Voting principal over party is common sense, thank goodness.
PGE passes the cost of doing business on to their customers.
That's total BS.
That's actually called "doing business".
@@patmcbride9853 not in the way they're doing it. I'm a business owner and I don't and can't pass on costs for me upgrading or maintenance for my equipment. Key words " cost of doing business". California's BS all the way around is just to charge the people even for their waste and corruption.
@@jamesdalton7191 Well, you just need to get Greasy Gavin and the Pinheads under the dome to create the BBC (Beleaguered Business Commission) and have them "allow" you to pass on all costs and force people to do business with you.
@@patmcbride9853 it doesn't work like that. Customers will go somewhere else if prices are too high. What other options do we have for electricity? None so PGE price gouges us. You must not live in Greedafornia.
@@jamesdalton7191 I escaped.
My monthly electric bill is less than half what I paid in Kalifornistan, and my house is bigger, and heated by a heat pump instead of the nice natural gas heater I had before moving.
YES PG&E IS ALREADY OUTRAGEOUSLY PRICED. PRICE GOUGING
Why are we paying for upgrades and improvement? We should be paying just for electric and gas usage. It’s like me asking for a pay raise just because I want to upgrade my home.
So eventually it will be just as expensive to juice up your EV as it is to get gas for a regular car 😂
PG&G is getting payback on California for making them pay for the wildfires. PG&E Strikes back!!
I'm sure the CEO is ok with her pay package.
Customers should not be paying for PGE's incompetence
I wish my PGE bill was $300! It’s been over $500 for over a year now! No wonder everyone’s leaving this godforsaken state!
They will keep charging whatever the stupid "customer " will pay. Over here in Chiang Mai, Thailand, my electric bill (no gas) was $18.00 last month. Something is very wrong with the system back in the USA.
Yes indeed, especially our health care costs.
Every one gets a raise but the one's paying the bills and what's bs is a person could be gone from their home for a month or more and still get charged the same as if you're home worse than criminals and it's legal blood suckers
Not 1 metion of the laws and taxes that brought the bay area to this point. Great news.
Smart meters are a huge contributor to such problems
and Newson is allowing this increases threw his CPUC, come November please vote for Taxpayer Protection Act propositon.
Why should we be paying for their advancement? That should be coming out of their profits! If I start a restaurant, I cant start charging more and more simply because I want a bee oven! I have to find the money myself snd the recoup the investment with better food thus justifing higher prices. Pge wants ratepayers to pay their legal liability for the wildfires that their neglect caused.
For electricity and gas? Heck, my bill was over $200 this past month and we have a propane tank, so it's only for electric. it might be cheaper to run my generator all day for our electricity needs. Yeah, and their "paper cut" increases are no different than my property taxes going up every year, compounded from the year before.
Stop privatizing public services. All these rate hikes are for rich people to buy more yachts.
"... We're aggressively focused on finding new ways to work so that we can keep future bill increases at or below a..." Here's an idea ... Cut admins over-inflated salaries?
A most excellent idea!
Those billions in wildfire fines and lawsuits weren’t going to go unnoticed.
Party Time at PG&E. More money for bonuses and waste on parties.
Eminent domain PG&E!
PG&E are laughing at us for all the electricity they can charge to us with the electric cars charging in homes
Just another reason to leave California.
What percentage of PGE income goes towards workers pensions? That's the crux of the biscuit.
Protest it or don't turn on the heat!!
I thought pge declared bankruptcy? the management fired and replaced with bankrupcy court appointed management?
We're two people and my bill is 500
That is nuts.....
While NEM 3.0 makes solar less attractive, the increased rates make solar pv more attractive and gives motivation to completely disconnect from the grid entirely.
My December PG&E bill was $500.
@@amandaontheinternet1986 egad
it isnt housing costs that are going to drive me away from Santa Clara County
its the monthly PG&E rate increases
This company has to be broken up for good and we need alternatives.
Yes, just like Comcast.
Electric Co-op would be your best option
What happens when we have to use ev’s
😮 😂😂😂😂😂
You're beginning to connect the dots. PGE donated millions to Gavin Newsom and Gavin Newsom mandates usage of EVs and PGE raises rates.
In California, becoming homeless is a good idea. Instead of paying, you get cash and free healthcare from Newsom.
Homeless and illegals and that's our tax dollars!
Amen
can we get a news report on what the CPUC is doing to help us? or are just in bed with pge and newsom!?
The state should buy out PG&E and Edison. Run it without the profit motive. Then we're all shareholders.
I thought my $140 a month during the winter was high lol
I want PGE to give me cheap power and I want to sue them for the entire cost of my house if it’s damaged
Meanwhile, EVs pay no “gas tax.”
How many of the "furious" voted for Greasy Gavin and the Pinheads under the dome?
One party rule leads to this kind of crap.
Maybe consumers forget that PGE was bankrupt from wildfire lawsuits. PGE has no capital
prior bankruptcy, the customer always pays. Deal made by Newsom, PUC and PGE;
1) PGE had to do some flips or 2) California would take PGE over as a socialist state operated utility.
(Imagine silicone valley tech powered by a socialist state operated utility controlled by legislature)
PGE is now doing the flips including grid upgrades, tree/shrub cutting, rate hikes and paying less
for homeowner solar electric. Buckle up for PUC approved electric utilities billed like progressive
taxes based on income. It's good Robin Hood progressives taking again from rich and
middle class to "fairly" give to poor. Of course that coming utility bill will also be state taxed,
so a sneaking state way to raise income taxes thru your utility bill. Let them
be clear why they press you to use electric power for everything... you ain't seen nothing yet baby !
Im scared to run my Heater....
Shame! Never ask how much is toouch because the Power Barons have no limit to what they can steal from you.
Wish i could get a pay increase this often 😂 wtf
Feel sorry for you guys. In the midwest my home electricity bill is $60 a month except in summer when I run the AC. Gas bill is $30 a month except a few months in winter where it is up to $100 a month.
What state !?!? Please share !! Good luck to you
@@tc2674 Missouri
Consumers are always getting screwed. Gas prices, car prices, natural and electric. What the fuk…
"Take the boot off our necks already" 🤬
So we are furious, but what can we do?
Well, why should PG&E be expected to pay for upgrades to their infrastructure that will enable them to increase their profits? And with the PUC in their pocket they won't be.
They should've been making these improvements for the wildfires the entire time instead of giving dividends to their largest shareholders and doing stock buyback it should've been investing at money and infrastructure and they should be punished for that and that why do we have privately owned energy anyway this would be a public utility and a co-op at the very worst This for profit horseshit is what brings us to this point where even if you put solar on your roof throwing in buy back your electricity $.10 on the dollar electricity! I want to D centralize you getting solar panels on your roof they don't want you to do thatPG&E is just straight up evil and all there is to it as sooner California touch ties with these evil evil people the better
Pg&e is double dipping with rate hike, and with the peek hours, with peek hours, the rate doubles if you use power between 4 to 9p.
My bill was high before 2024 at 70$ month. For a 20x22 stuido. Now I just say my bill at 170$ because it was cold, and we use heat during peek hours and cook during peek hours witch the peek hours FUCKING wrong.
Pg&e should not double dip like this and if pge wants raise our bill. Then drop the peek hours. Because peek hour is just predatory practice.
Some want to make Gavin President.. Wake Up!!
we're all sick.🐀
What the hell. It’s about to be cheaper to drive a hybrid car in the Bay Area than an all electric with the rates being so high.
mine went from $129. To $262 in 12 months. I have one light, one modem, and one refrigerator. Everything else I own that plugs in, is unplugged. I am lucky, not to use my gas heat, and not to use much of my gas stove.
Im a senior, on soc sec fixed income.
This is why seniors are having to move into our cars...its only a matter of time, for me.
Bill the state for the upgrades and preparing for future fires.
It's even worse in Europe. NG prices went up 300-500%, and electricity 250% in the last 2 years. Many pay > 350 euros / month.
They need the money to upgrade the grid. Pay up you bums.
Meanwhile PG&E has spent how much on stock buybacks? Couldn't find a number but usually its hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars yearly, then complain rate hikes are needed to keep the business running. If they fail again your tax dollars are there to bail them out again
And you guys want the customers to pay for some shit you guys own 😂😂😂 when it should be taken out of the companys profits and make a law about it
Come on you guys. They only had a net profit of about $1.8 billion last year. Give a monopoly a break. ;)
That’s exactly what they said for the last price hike
Take from customers who pay to make up for those who don't....
This is the consequence of having a monopoly control are power
Along with digital communications (Xfinity,At&t) nothing stopping these guys from raising rated either no completion on the market
So do a partial payment and they can’t shut you off…. What a felonious company. ….
Truth
Lawsuits and Maintenance
I don't understand this. I live by myself in a 1200 square-foot home I grew up in Minnesota I do not use the heat hardly at all maybe once a week twice a week in the winter I keep all the lights off I dry my clothes on a line and somehow my electricity bill is still hovering around 200 bucks a month it doesn't make any sense my subsidizing somebody else on my blockmy bill should be under $100 for how little electricity I actually use
No, theyre not doing a lot of work. I worked for PGE on the undergrounding project and they are overpriced (no competetive bids) and inefficient.
This is why I'm converting my house to pure electric and installed a large solar array. Later I'll add batteries and possibly a wind turbine and these suckers will see nearly zero money from me forever.
We need those rate increases to help to pay PG&E CEO Patricia Pope's $50+ *million* in annual compensation. If the CEO takes in that much, imagine the rest of the executive team's total compensation.
I guess we know what all those that got a minimum wage increase will be spending that fat wad of cash on.
Gotta pay for infrastructure for everyone else's EVs!
How is this even legal 🤷♂️
If we can break this monopoly & actually let consumers choose other options.