Dennis Herrera: With PG&E rates going up (again), San Francisco deserves better
With PG&E getting ready to raise rates (again!) by as much as $400 per year—on top of a 50% rate increase since 2020—there has never been a better time for San Francisco to accelerate its transition to full public power, a proven, higher-quality, lower-cost alternative to PG&E.
In a new San Francisco Examiner op-ed, SFPUC General Manager Dennis Herrera lays out the case for buying out PG&E so they are no longer the corporate monopoly grid owner in San Francisco.
Noting that San Francisco public power customers already pay 30% less than PG&E customers, while receiving more reliable service, Herrera catalogs PG&E’s disturbing history of mismanagement and incompetence—from billions of dollars of wildfire liabilities and excessive executive salaries to its ongoing attempts to make San Francisco residents pay for its mistakes.
“PG&E customers deserve better,” says Herrera. “It doesn’t have to be this way. It’s time for a change. It’s time to expand public power in San Francisco.”
Read the full Herrera op-ed here:
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