High San Diego utility bills could not come at a worse time

San Diego Gas and Electric customers are opening surprisingly high utility bills this month. Natural gas rates are more than double what they were a year ago and electricity costs are up too. KPBS Environment Reporter Erik Anderson says there is plenty of financial pain to go around.

[debeelynn]

I am disabled and live alone in a six year old building and I get both disabled discount and CARE. I’ve never used the heater or stove and in summer I use a room fan. My bills have been averaging around 80$ and I called SDGE and asked why my bill was so high when I did everything I can to keep it down and this month my bill was 35$. I have a smart meter and I asked them to check if it had been hacked? The SDGE rep was very rude, but my bill came down to where I thought it should be even with all of the service and taxes increases, please local and state government DO something about this!

[readbobby]

I’ve noticed lately the flame on the range has turned from blue to orange, indicating it isn’t combusting efficiently. Takes longer to bring something up to boil.

[da_mitchello]

And yet I bet majority of of us struggling with the bill don’t humor solar PPA’s, they just say “not interested” and stick with ever-increasing rates under a monopoly

[libiure]

25% are behind on their utility bills - and sdg&e increased utility rates anyway - that's terrible ..

[steveurbach]

Something smells and it is not the odorizer in the gas. This is not all 'infrastructure' mandates. Those recovery fees have to be approved by CAPUC..
Do we have another ENRON?

[George-jyop]

I'm sure KPBS loves SDG&E's new proposed socialist billing model (being socialist supporters themselves) where you pay based on income. Can anyone in california see past their face, will just contribute to more population decline. ECON 101 lesson, less people, less income, less taxes, less people, rinse repeat until bankruptcy.

[jt]

Lineman make 250k a year sdge has his wages to pay what do you think the big wigs