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PG&E outrage: Californians are fed up with stratospheric bills

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Pop quiz: Which way will your California energy bill trend over the next few years?

C. Into the stratosphere

The utility, which serves 16 million people across 70,000 square miles in Northern and Central California, has long vexed customers with sky-high prices.

And it’s now expected to push rates even higher, according to the California Public Advocates Office, a consumer advocacy division of the state’s Public Utilities Commission.

The watchdog projected this week that PG&E rates will soar, over current levels, by up to $840 a year by 2030.

Today, the utility’s average ratepayer — and we emphasize average, as many are paying more — is out of wallet $285 per month, or about $3,420 annually. 

One Bay Area resident told The California Post that she paid the company almost $9,000 last year for gas and electric service. Another, in Fresno,........

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