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PG&E customers face the forbidding prospect of higher monthly bills starting this spring now that a state law judge has smoothed out a pathway to interim rate relief for the utility behemoth.
PG&E's request for a springtime increase in rates partly due to wildfire prevention work is poised to cause utility bills to gallop past a grim milestone.
Oakland-based Pacific Gas and Electric Company's combined gas and electric bills are rising about eight times faster than the annualized increase in Bay Area consumer prices.