Bay Area Electricity Bills Are Some of the Highest. Where Does Your Money Go?
December 2, 2025
KQED
Severin Borenstein, Energy Institute Faculty Director, explains in KQED how wildfire costs and expensive grid upgrades now make up a large share of Bay Area households’ soaring electricity bills.
“’It was basically putting up wires around neighborhoods and then maintaining them,’ Borenstein said. ‘Now that [cost] is many, many times higher because almost all of the fires that have been started are distribution level fires.'”
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