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Re:‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room by reaperducer on Saturday October 12, 2019 @10:25PM (#21237880)
PG&E is a terrible company, but spewing a bunch of nonsense hyperbole isn't helpful.

Someone else pointed out that your statements about deaths are false. So I'll point out that California's electricity isn't 22¢/kWh. The California average is 16.06¢.

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/

States that have it worse:

  Hawaii: 26.05¢
  Alaska: 19.10¢
  Connecticut: 17.55¢
  Massachusetts: 17.12¢
  Rhode Island: 16.42¢
  New Hampshire: 16.17¢
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Re:‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room by jjav on Sunday October 13, 2019 @12:49AM (#21238439)
> California average is 16.06¢

Not sure how they come up with such a number, but California is large and has many electricity providers.

But for PG&E in the Bay Area, let me quote from my PG&E electric bill here in hand:

Daytime: $0.53476 (delivery) + $0.25069 (generation) = $0.785/kWh

Part-peak: $0.28917 (delivery) + $0.10643 (generation) = $0.396/kWh

Night: $0.13578 (delivery) + $0.03968 (generation) = $0.175/kWh

The cheapest rate is 17.5 cents per kWh, that is late at night (currently after 11pm, soon to be changed to be after midnight).

Daytime rate is 78.5 cents per kWh! This is PG&E in the Bay Area.

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Re:‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room by mrep on Sunday October 13, 2019 @03:21AM (#21238944)
Oof, that's awful. I just got a bill recently here in seattle and got a $10.67 base charge and an additional $0.0902 charge per KWH for a total price of $48.50 dollars for 415 KWHs used in a 68 day period.
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Re:‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room by inferiorhuman on Saturday October 12, 2019 @11:20PM (#21238134)
The California average is 16.06¢.

PG&E doesn't serve all of California. While we're being pedantic, PG&E's (non-low-income) rates are generally closer to $0.20-$0.30 per kWh. Their rates are a bit too complex to easily summarize but during peak hours you are pretty much guaranteed to be paying more than $0.20/kWh (and in many cases above $0.25/kWh). Off-peak rates are all above $0.12/kWh, generally more than $0.16/kWh.

https://www.pge.com/tariffs/electric.shtml

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Re:‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room by pravda on Saturday October 12, 2019 @10:59PM (#21238043)
It's about 25¢/kwh in NYC! yay con edison! most expensive electricity that doesn't have to be shipped in by boat.
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