oakwcj
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edatoakrun said:Ready2plugin said:I was one of the first on E9a and I have yet been notified. How did you get the notice, phone, email, snail mail?
No notice, even after I called PG&E, and was told "its in the mail".
Has ANYONE received notice?
If you read the PG&E advice letter carefully, you will see that they have only promised to notify us before the new rates take effect. They say nothing about notification before the rates are approved by the CPUC. They want a fait accompli so that they can sadly tell us that we'd be better off on E-1. Just another of PG&E's deceptive practices.
Also note that the proposal would institute peak periods for the winter months where none exist now. PG&E attempts to sell this as simplifying a complex rate structure. I'll take a lower bill over false simplicity any time. When PG&E talks about the effects of the proposed rate change, it only compares the new rates with the existing E-9 rates. Those results are bad enough, but the important comparison would be to E-1. If the E-9 rates, using whatever secret assumptions PG&E claims to have made, are no lower than the E-1 rates, then the incentives for TOU charging disappear. I think this is precisely what PG&E wants, because its ultimate aim is to prove to the CPUC that TOU rates are a failure and make another effort to use the Smart Meter technology to impose demand pricing.