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Stop making customers scapegoats for energy costs
Both the insurance companies and PG&E keep raising the cost of our policies and our utilities. Much of this is due to the wildfires California has experienced over the last few years — many caused by PG&E’s faulty equipment, or lack of attention. Should not PG&E and the insurance companies get this resolved between themselves, instead of putting the burden on those insured and customers? Do we need to be the scapegoats?
Is there a reason why anyone should be paying more for the services of PG&E and Peninsula Clean Energy combined than the actual energy they consume?
Jackie Leonard-Dimmick
Walnut Avenue, Atherton
Making your energy system safer and more affordable
At PG&E, we recognize that like many goods and services, energy prices are increasing.
Those increases are essential investments to help build a safe, reliable, and clean energy system for everyone and support the growing need for new service connections and infrastructure upgrades in our communities.
For example, in the Bay Area region, we’ve connected nearly 500 new services so far this year for both residential and local businesses across San Francisco, San Mateo, Alameda and Contra Costa counties.
Investments like this are necessary, but we are also working every day to ease rising energy costs.
We’re reducing our own operating costs in dozens of ways and working to lower the costs of state policies and programs that affect your bill.
Through these actions, we’re working hard to reduce your bill in 2025 and 2026.
Jake Zigelman
PG&E Vice President, Bay Area Region
Lack of clarity about building reach codes
Thank you for Robert Hogue’s well done guest opinion in the June 8, Almanac: The case for electrifying our buildings.
The situation with building codes related to electrification is unclear at best. The impacts of reach code alternatives to those codes struck down by the Berkeley decision are not yet completely known. But electrification is the one most direct, personal step anyone, renters and homeowners alike, can take to turn around the climate crisis.
We can all ask for one thing: before a City Council makes a decision related to the climate and specifically building codes, please respond to the question: “How much will this decision lower green house gas emissions?” That is a great thing to ask, because not all the alternatives to reach codes are actually effective in making the planet better.
Electrification is a local, regional, state, and global issue. Please adopt new building codes that actually reduce green house gases.
Robert Whitehair
San Mateo
A clearly biased judge
I can understand why some are concerned that the recent revelations about Justice Alito were recorded secretly. However, his clear acknowledgement of having a religious agenda, were his own words and thoughts. Of much greater (and disqualifying) concern is the fact that Alito appears to have lied through his teeth to Congress during his confirmation hearings.
Don Barnby
Spruce Avenue, Menlo Park
