A stunt or first step? Inside California’s last-minute effort to cut electric bills and streamline clean energy

https://calmatters.org/environment/2024/08/california-energy-bills-last-minute-legislation/

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BertramDitore@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Fuck. This is clearly a stunt meant to appease people with a tiny discount on a single bill. They’ve pulled this before, and it’ll do nothing to lower our bills.

I’m a single guy with a TV and a computer, and when I moved to California less than a decade ago my energy bill averaged around $70 a month. Now it averages around $150 a month. Same behavior, twice the price. That’s unacceptable.

Reminder that at least one utility company in CA is a convicted felon for causing the deaths of multiple people in wildfires. They’re bad companies operating in bad faith.