mike campbell tracks rates for the consumer watchdog arm of the california public utilities commission. he says over the last five years, pg and e rates have doubled where it operates in california. after the rate hike in january, customers pay an average 39.6 cents per kilowatt hour, compared to $0.21 per kilowatt hour in 2019. to put it in perspective, an average customer uses about 500 kilowatt hours per month, one kilowatt hour is the amount of energy it takes to power ten 100 watt light bulbs for an hour, so the average customer will paid $100 for power back in 2019, now pays nearly twice that amount. bills have been going up at a pace far beyond inflation, and we're at a place now where pg and e's rates are, unfortunately, approaching the levels of hawaii, but with a network of dams, a nuclear plant, abundant solar, all tied to a multi-state power grid, mike campbell and other ratepayer watchdog say our power should be much cheaper than hawaii. so why do we now pay almost as much pg rates are clearly insane right now. matt friedman is an attorney with the ratepayer advocacy group