Electric Bill

Electric only, about 30 bucks

Was about 70 pre-remodel. We also have a gas dryer, and stove.

When we lived in the hot valley and had a pool the bill could easily be $600 in the summer. Now on the coast it dropped to around $200. $4 sounds good so there is room for more improvement. 

I don't use the heater; don't have an AC...not necessary in Monterey. Gas dryer, stove, oven. Electricity is like 40-60/month, gas is another 10-20/month.

Between $50-$100. Had one month that was randomly exactly $999.99. Pretty sure that was some sort of error but PGE didn't care...

you can request a re read, even if you have a smart meter that is read remotey.  Obviously if your bill was between $50 and $100, then it jumped to a grand PG&E better figure it out.  Did you actually pay that?!??!

&20 -30 a month... highway robbery I say!

Between $50-$100. Had one month that was randomly exactly $999.99. Pretty sure that was some sort of error but PGE didn't care...

you can request a re read, even if you have a smart meter that is read remotey.  Obviously if your bill was between $50 and $100, then it jumped to a grand PG&E better figure it out.  Did you actually pay that?!??!

Yes. I had it read. Trust me I kicked and screamed it wasn't right. Made no sense. Paid it once it got shut off. What can you do when one company has the monopoly on electricity?

Same thing we can do when they raise the water rates.
Not a damn thing.

I don't pay the bills so not sure what we're spending.  i'm guessing north of 300 buck

What can you do when one company has the monopoly on electricity?

Tap into your neighbor's juice . . .

I don't pay the bills so not sure what we're spending.  i'm guessing north of 300 buck

What can you do when one company has the monopoly on electricity?

Tap into your neighbor's juice . . .

My neighbor must have thought of that before me. Apparently. Hahaha...

We broke the PG&E monopoly by installing solar. We pay them $4.73 a month as a meter reading charge. Gas bill for May was $15.86. Some advantages to living along the central coast with no need for AC and much less need for heating. The hot water heater and furnace are the only things that use natural gas.

In California, thanks to the backroom deal between Enron and PG&E, customers pay double the rate per unit of the same natural gas from Texas that is also being sold on the east coast. Who says crime does not pay?

Solar is not providing 30% of the supply to meet peak hours of demand in the state. Last March total output in the state from solar exceeded 4 GW of power and that is double what it was in March of 2013.

PG&E gets more power from dams than any other utility and with the drought and little snowpack the cheap solar provided to PG&E is keeping rates down for everyone. The excess from my house costs PG&E about 4 cents per KWH but it sells it to people for as much as 34 cents per KWH. Sweet deal for PG&E that has no capital costs to get this power to resell.

We broke the PG&E monopoly by installing solar. We pay them $4.73 a month as a meter reading charge. Gas bill for May was $15.86. Some advantages to living along the central coast with no need for AC and much less need for heating. The hot water heater and furnace are the only things that use natural gas.

In California, thanks to the backroom deal between Enron and PG&E, customers pay double the rate per unit of the same natural gas from Texas that is also being sold on the east coast. Who says crime does not pay?

Solar is not providing 30% of the supply to meet peak hours of demand in the state. Last March total output in the state from solar exceeded 4 GW of power and that is double what it was in March of 2013.

PG&E gets more power from dams than any other utility and with the drought and little snowpack the cheap solar provided to PG&E is keeping rates down for everyone. The excess from my house costs PG&E about 4 cents per KWH but it sells it to people for as much as 34 cents per KWH. Sweet deal for PG&E that has no capital costs to get this power to resell.

That is why you don't want to put so much solar on, That you drop below the lowest base line (tier).

Mine is between 200-300 a month depending.  Rarely use the heater and I get free AC from the Pacific Ocean.  Like someone else said, my house is like a data center, kids, wife, and me each have at least 3-5 devices going 24x7.  The list of MAC codes on my router is multiple pages.

I am on PG&E averaging payment schedule and pay a flat $91 per month.  I do have propane too and that's $50 a month on average; $600 a year to fill the tank.  Combined, $141 a month for our energy bill. 

 My water bill is higher than electricity    76 /mo    vs.       65 /mo for electric. 

   Thanks PUC.

This month was $170. About $30 of this is gas and the rest was juice. We have a gas stove, gas central heat, gas water heater, gas dryer. The only big ticket electrical is a hot tub but the bill didn't even jump much when we installed it several years ago.