PG&E bills will be slightly cheaper just for the summer. here's why:

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- PG&E customers are acceptable to get a interruption connected their bills this summer.

The inferior that services much than 16 cardinal radical crossed Northern and Central California has announced electrical rates volition alteration by 9 percent connected July 1.

The impermanent alteration aims to assistance customers prevention wealth during the hottest months of the year.PG&E says radical surviving successful hotter areas could person higher savings.

"We're capable to marque this simplification due to the fact that we've finished paying disconnected immoderate costs from the past that some came from wildfire extortion and prevention. As good arsenic rebuilding infrastructure successful communities that person been affected by wildfires implicit the past mates of years," PG&E's elder vice president of section lawsuit engagement Aaron Johnson said.

Back successful March, the California Public Utility Commission unanimously voted to let PG&E to rise rates without immoderate nationalist treatment earlier the vote.

Those complaint hikes went into effect successful April, months aft different complaint summation astatine the opening of 2024.

PG&E said the hike successful April would magnitude to astir $3.65 for the mean electrical customer.

This is contempt the inferior reporting past year's profits surged to much than $2.2 billion, a astir 25 percent jump.