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10. I just handed PG&E $300 for a heat wave month.
Wed Aug 16, 2023, 01:45 AM
Aug 2023

Bills used to be $35-50 most months. Rates just went up. So did the heat. I'll figure things out. Was 99 today. Bay Area was 77. I lived there for 30 years. If I stayed here, I'd put up a few acres of solar panels. PUC reduced the payback rate for solar owners. To encourage home battery storage, which is mostly Elon's piggy bank. I am convinced that there are vast economies of scale with giant solar farms. I like distributed systems but the redundancy is expensive. Works for NASA!! PUC is pretty much owned by the power companies. Must be lucrative.

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