All is nice and dandy, but I did not like the fact that nobody asked me before switching my account from PGE to SVCE. I missed the info about this transition and later found out that switching back is not very easy. I still made the switch back to PGE just because

I am happy that SVCE is helping us all reduce our carbon footprint, but I have felt like this transition is hampered by the mysterious billing item that shows up as "Power charge indifference adjustment". I looked into this by calling SVCE and also doing online searches and discovered that this is a charge we pay to PG&E for leaving them and not using the power for contracts they signed on our behalf. Okay, that makes sense - they committed to expensive power and we can't leave the other rate holders on the hook for that cost.
However, this fee appears to be in perpetuity! It should go down every year as contracts expire, right? And now, in bankruptcy court, PG&E is asking these contracts to be nullified, but there is no talk about us then having this charge removed from our bill. This charge is large - 50% of the power generation amount!
SVCE needs to be actively working to reduce and eliminate this charge.

I hate what has happened to my PG&E bill.

It was not that many years ago I was paying $80 dollars a month, pretty much the same for the entire year.

Now I am in the 3rd teir rate plan paying on average of $400 a month.

These high rates are done on purpose.
Please scrape this plan, it saves no one any money.

I'm all for clean power, but I will not celebrate this particular SVCE anniversary because it's an elaborate shell game which makes activists feel good about themselves, while improving nothing and costing us more. I'm quite frustrated with modern government and corporate messaging, where they sell some nonsense to us with promises of it being better, cheaper, faster, while knowing full well that it won't be. It's deceitful. Whenever someone mentions "messaging" around some kind of initiative, it means they're figuring out how to lie about it most effectively.

The electric grid is an incredibly complicated thing. Generation must meet demand exactly, or you have problems with voltages dropping or the A/C waveform degrading. To make this possible, power is moved around the state constantly, and any generation shortfall is supplemented by buying power from neighboring states, some of which is coal power. California publishes stats on this:
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California doesn't generate enough power to meet our needs, so we import power. This means that any point in time, SVCE and all other generation facilities are generating all they can, putting that power into the system, and we import the rest from out of state. If you buy power from PG&E or SVCE, you are buying the same power from the same sources, there is ZERO difference.

Local governments signed contracts with PG&E long ago, and we broke that contract with this move to SVCE, and you're paying for that too. Look up the PCIA fee on your bill - for me it adds something like $10-15 per month. That's what it's offsetting. If you stuck with PG&E, you would not be paying this.

I opted out of SVCE out of objection to this shell game when I had the opportunity, the opt-out was ignored. I called to opt out afterwards, and still, I'm paying for this nonsense. As far as I can tell, it's impossible to opt out.