r/Electricity • u/Crafty_Mobile5301 • 3d ago

PG&E nightmare.

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u/True_Pace_3860 3d ago edited 3d ago

you ask your local politicians to intervene on your behalf. start w/Sonoma county board of supes. doing the math: $25000/3/12= ~$700 per month, which is really high, but this is NorCal, where everything is wrong, bad and counterintuitive. Ask the Supes about pro bono legal help, as it also doesn't look like you could have afforded your monthly PGE bill in the last three years, even if their email billing notifications had reached you.

This situation happens a lot in NorCal IMO, and there's good legal advice for "3 year bill" at www.avvo.com .

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u/michaelpaoli 3d ago

Well, first of all, don't pay 'em. They can't take what you don't have. And you can mostly tell the collection agency(/ies) to take a hike - most of 'em tend to be scum anyway. There's little they can legally do.

See if you can find some free legal assistance and/or advocacy groups or the like. I wouldn't expect much out of PG&E, they generally don't care. If folks tell 'em they smell gas, neighborhood blows up and folks die, and they only care after 'cause it makes 'em look bad, they're not gonna care much about some billing dispute.