While I agree with much of what you write, I have a question about what you say that PG&E knows what is going on inside your house ? Could you please explain how you think that could be done ?
I have been a licensed electrician for decades, and also an electronics technician, and I say that there is no possible way that PG&E will ever know what one is using electricity for, the only thing reported is total electricity used and billed for.
You must realize that PG&E is in business to buy power at wholesale prices and sell it at a profit to customers. The more power that they sell, the more money that they make.
They love cities like Arcata, where 1 in 5 houses use large amounts of power.
PG&E would never want to lose good customers who use large amounts of power and always pay their bill on time. No corporation would want to turn away good profits in a down economy, especially since PG&E went bankrupt a few years ago.
Up in Humboldt county, the timber industry used to buy large amounts of power to operate electrically intensive lumber mills and related industrial equipment. But now, most of the mills have been shuttered, that really hurt the electricity market in Humboldt county. Now, a new industry has emerged and proved to be a good market for PG&E , you know that PG&E is very happy with the way things have improved in the electricity market.

PG&E is known as anti-human organization
Poisoning water supplies to increase profits so that top executives can get bigger bonuses “Remember Chromium 6” and a whole town of Men, Women, and Children where purposely given Cancer by PG&E. PG&E gave these people cancer on purpose to shave expenses so the CEO could get a 20 million dollar bonus.
This is why companies do this kind of activity and why they need to be regulated and under the control of the people they are suppose to serve.

A more recent event is the San Bruno Explosion, this is the same exact thing as the chromium 6 being dumped into the water supply. They, PG&E, did not check the pipe on purpose so they could save money, why did they want to save money, so they CEO could get is Big FAT Bonuses.

I’m not against bonuses but it should be given for doing the right things not the wrong things.

Awesome reply! So true!

I haven’t had had a fridge, stove, washer or dryer for atleast 5-6 yrs and only a six cubic ft top loading energy efficent freezer, but my graphs have been off the chart for Feb and April

My last bill for June, July and August is 24/5/5% Well had no appliancenes in June, but bought a stackable washer/dryer and used daily in July and August! Sept is less than 24%. Lmao, I call and they just get meaner and say they want a deposit or will cut me off and my disability pays them Monthly $90.00 for 1 1/2 br trailer with new roof and windows and tons of insulation. I’ve uped it to $ 100.00 per month because really need a fridge and stove!

The rest is free trade! I can’t get it here so why should you there?

Over 2 million people are now without power as power company CEOs rake in millions of dollars in overblown salaries and spend millions of ratepayer dollars on worthless “Smart” Meter purchases.

They should have spent millions on normal tree trimming and inspection activities to prevent the outage.

When the lawsuit hits for this outage, it will be the ratepayer who get hit, again.

And don’t forget, the so called “smart” meters will allow quicker responses to power outages!

News: “People could be without electricity for as long as a week, said Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.”

Concepts and theory sounds great, but upon closer inspection:

1. Customer information from smart meters is NOT formatted for customers and does NOT change customer behavior towards conservation.

2. Cost – Benefit is horrendous being promoted to profit the utility monopolies and their suppliers, not customers or our society or our environment.

3. The Smart Grid does NOT use or require a smart meter on each home. The necessary smart information for the grid can be gathered much more efficiently and timely and inexpensively at energy distribution points.

4. The vast amount of unnecessary and nearly useless information to be handled and stored may actually end up raising energy usage.

5. This massive Billions-of-dollars smart meter program will leave NO funds for programs that would truly bring energy saving solutions and the public will not be receptive to real solutions after being burned by these so-called smart meters.