<html><body><div style="font-family: tahoma, new york, times, serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000"><div><span id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__">----- On Feb 17, 2021, at 8:07 AM, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:<br></span></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On Wed, 17 Feb 2021, Andy Ringsmuth wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Not sure where you’re finding those numbers but I believe they are not accurate.</blockquote><br> <br> U.S. Energy Information Administration (part of the Department of Energy)<br> <br> https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.php?t=epmt_5_6_a</blockquote><br>According to their table, CA residential prices are 22.26 cent/kwh. Right.<br><br>It's easy to get to low numbers if you don't take into account the number of subsidized customers,</div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__">and all of the other fees that crooks at PG&E add to their pricing. Here is a more accurate picture,</div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__">taken directly from my energy bill. I have solar, so I picked a month that had little "return" traffic.<br><br>With apologies to those on the list who still use mutt/pine etc.</div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><img src="cid:3dd8691b942cba1c8a028010f73db0d55f0b959d@zimbra" data-mce-src="cid:3dd8691b942cba1c8a028010f73db0d55f0b959d@zimbra"></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__">But wait, there's more! This does not include the Silicon Valley Clean Energy Electric Generation Charges. </div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><img src="cid:0f4086b29b48add8fa9267a293082c94dbd53600@zimbra" data-mce-src="cid:0f4086b29b48add8fa9267a293082c94dbd53600@zimbra"></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__">So I am paying a grand total of $239.14 for 656.928 KwH of electricity.</div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__">That makes 36.4 cents per KwH.</div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__">It gets even better. For a month in the summer:</div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><img src="cid:eab3e9fbed591de90799521ecb1740c9a5510a52@zimbra" data-mce-src="cid:eab3e9fbed591de90799521ecb1740c9a5510a52@zimbra"></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__">Do you see that? My solar panels produced more power than I used, and I'm *still* paying PG&E.</div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__">This (admittedly anecdotal) evidence clearly proves that the Dept of Energy's table is cherry-picked bollocks. My rate is 163% of their "average".</div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__">Thanks,</div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__">Sabri</div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><br></div></div></body></html>