[RFI] Edison

[Jim Brown]

On 1/16/2012 4:54 PM, rick darwicki wrote:
> My whole neighborhood is complaining how high their bills are on the new electronic meters Edison installed a few months ago. Now why would they spend all that money if it lowered your bill?

I have carefully tracked my utility bills in a spreadsheet for at least 
25 years. And I compute what they are charging me per kWh, how much I am 
using per day, and so on. When you do this, you learn interesting 
things, one of the most important of which is rate increases that they 
don't talk about.  My power usage has remained fairly steady and even 
dropped a bit as I've worked to save money, but PG&E billing rates have 
been climbing almost every six months.Those billing increases folks have 
noted are probably due to the rate increases, not the smart meters.

These rates are set by some form of legal agreement with the State of 
California, probably negotiated during the time that we well all getting 
ripped off by Enron. Now we're getting ripped off by PG&E. My 
electricity rates here in CA are almost three times what I paid in Chicago.

73, Jim K9YC