[dangjc]

A huge portion of electric bills are paying for wildfire damage/hardening and for expensive transmission lines. Rooftop solar reduces both, but is not being credited for it in NEM 3.0.

When electricity is generated and consumed locally, it doesn't need to be transmitted across huge distances using expensive transmission infrastructure. There's also less wires that can trigger fires. But infra is the only way regulated utilities are allowed to make a profit.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/11/business/energy-environme...

These increased costs being passed to California consumers could kill electric cars. We're paying $0.30-$0.40 / kwh to PG&E, which pencils out to over $9 / gallon.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a35152087/tesla-model-3-ch...

[jefftk]

> We're paying $0.30-$0.40 / kwh to PG&E, which pencils out to over $9 / gallon.

No way. An electric car (including charging inefficiency) uses about ~0.3 kWh per mile, so at $0.35/kWh each mile costs you ~$0.10 in electricity. If a gas car gets 35mpg, then for each mile to cost ~$0.10 in fuel, gas would need to cost $3.50 not $9.

How are you getting $9?

[ternus]

If you have an electric car, you can get PG&E's EV time of use rate. Schedule charging during off-peak hours (past midnight) and it's on the order of $0.13/kWh.

[jeffbee]

The only reason that sounds bad is because fuel is under-taxed. Gas should be at least $9/gallon.