California Income-based electric bills

This would be the final straw for me and I would have to move states. It&#x27;s unbelievable what these state employees spend their time on, as if they are some kind of lordship ruling over the peasants.<p>&gt; But amid the debate over rate design, we’ve lost sight of the much bigger challenge of how to bring down utility costs overall<p>You increase supply!! Build more nuclear!! Then it will be cheap for everyone. But nooo, somehow the cost of nuclear is more than the cost of climate change.

What is the value of a shared currency if it&#x27;s purchased power differs person to person? When you earn higher income, in addition to tax the value goes down?

Beyond cost, what is stopping somebody from going off grid, and relying entirely on their own solar + battery system? Is there some law that makes this illegal? If not, it seems like this would cause a lot of upper income folks to just disconnect from the grid.<p>I&#x27;ve never had such unreliable power as I had when I lived in Mountain View (and I&#x27;ve lived in Buffalo, NY and in the hurricane alley in North Carolina). PG&amp;E is a disaster.

The usual way to this would be to have the power company charge what they need to, then provide a subsidy to low income consumers to help offset the cost.<p>It is super weird to make the power company responsible for administering social policy.

Article is from 2023. The backlash if these are implemented will be huge, so some legislators are proposing a flat connection fee and reduced rates across the board.<p>Keep in mind the rider that brought this into AB205 was slipped in at the last minute and not examined in any detail. It seems pretty obvious it would not have passed if it had been debated. I&#x27;d love to know more about how this happened and who was involved.

Why would the politicians allow this, surely this backfires hard on them

Can we escape this by using solar + a battery and disconnecting from the grid?

We&#x27;re okay with people being charged different for same hotel room! Well, Welcome to Hotel Californiahh !!

&quot;From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!&quot;