19% YOY usage drop last month, 3.6% bill increase. It’s been like this for months. Even if you’re trying to limit your usage and save money, you get fucked. Such bullshit. Meanwhile the PUC came out and said they don’t want to not approve these large increases PGE has requested every year because “it would set a bad precedent”. Talk about in another world.
Their “why are my electricity charges higher” are also incorrect on weather, actually the exact opposite–the same page notes the period was 1 degree cooler than last year.
Oregon is in the lower 3rd for KWH rates, so definitely better off than many but Portland has one of the worst housing affordability rates in the nation so we get crushed by that.
The last 4 years the Jan 1 approved rate increases have been 22%, 14%, 12% and now 10% on the docket this year. You’re talking 70% compounded increases in 4 years. Whatever your baseline of advantages for an area that is innnnsane.