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Updated: May 26, 2026 @ 10:19 am
Editor,
An unmentioned affordability fact about the forced switch from gas to electricity for home utilities is that electricity costs five times as much as gas for home use. It’s even more when the cost of upgrading home wiring and PG&E hookup costs are included. The credits offered are insignificant to the costs. These requirements should only be levied on new construction if at all.
An unmentioned affordability fact about the forced switch from gas to electricity for home utilities is that electricity costs five times as much as gas for home use. It’s even more when the cost of upgrading home wiring and PG&E hookup cost are included.
Ed Kahl
Woodside
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The cost of not electrifying will be far greater in the long run.
Doctor Jen - making statements that provide zero facts has no purpose. Please provide some facts about how not electrifying will be a problem in the long run.
Actually, Jendoc, the cost of electrifying has already put federal taxpayers in the hole to the tune of $trillions in the form of the Green New Scam and of course, multi $billions to state taxpayers, such as in CA, for nonsense “green” projects such as the train-to-nowhere. Electricity doesn’t grow on trees and as such, continues to be mostly generated through fossil fuels. Meanwhile, clean those grills, hit the store for your favorite bbq dishes (and maybe some Tums), and do your part to contribute to the global warming that isn’t, according to the UN-backed IPCC who've admitted their doomsday “climate change” predictions were a lie. Be safe out there.
The "cost" of electrifying is often too narrowly defined as what the bill is to the customer. There are significant climate damages from methane which are not in that 'cost'. HOWEVER, fostering increased dependence on a parasitic monopoly, and reducing resilience during the all-to-frequent power outages, while NOT constraining PG&E from further rate extortion on customers... that also is offensive and counter-productive. The FIRST step is to reform the CPUC and remove, restructure, or reform the utility monopoly. Allow more solar panels*, encourage more home batteries, structure the grid enhancements necessary to support increased electrification so that cost-effective reliable support at reasonable prices is available. HINT: get data centers to help pay for those grid enhancements. Having an un-elected agency force out of context regulations on a defenseless public is just another example of California's well-meaning, California Dreaming, failed regulatory management, and it will lead to more harms than good. Get the State (Hey Newsom, that was your job!) to fix the electric utility monopoly, and THEN the path to clean energy will be beneficial for all.
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* Currently limited to 1,000KW expansion of existing arrays - about 2.5 panels. Why throttle more solar?
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