Utilities are publicly owned for a good reason. Your bill would otherwise shoot up sky high the very moment your provider became a monopoly, and utilities are natural monopolies.

Many of our collective bills would go down if we pushed for more public ownership of natural monopolies and let go of the failed conservative dogma that beneficial competition is what happens when there are no rules. Comcast is what happens when there are no rules and natural monopolies are allowed to be privatized.

I made a similar switch around January or so. I haven't really notice much of a change in the bill.

It wasn't a particularly high bill to begin with, and I haven't really compared the actual price per kwh.

So overall I'm still pleased even if it hasn't been noticeably cheaper. All my power is on renewable, and my bill hasn't gone up.

Remember to try to avoid using power 4-9 pm if possible. Because it's peak hours, and the sun is setting, fossil fuels kick in to meet demand, even if you aren't directly hooked up to them. Later at night, wind/hydro power can supply enough because demand is lower.

this is a pretty tangible demonstration that renewable power really is cheaper than fossil fuels.

I'm not sure that the complex tariff web in CA allows for this conclusion. There are tons of market inequities baked into the rate structures, and the convoluted RECS schemes that allow for "100% renewable" are far from transparent at the system level. This option is just a regulatory construct, not anything that represents the broader market. As long as the IOUs are still allowed to earn the same profits courtesy of the CPUC, this just changes who's left holding the bag, which is why equity is such a huge focus for them now. That being said, you're still right but the TX free-for-all model illustrates this most simply.

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