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California's electricity rates are about twice those of most other US states.
I think that California would have more luck getting people to use electricity instead of natural gas if they'd work on getting California electricity prices down to something comparable to most of the other 48 states.
Probably also have more luck getting people to use electric vehicles instead of ICE vehicles.
Gas is expensive in California too though.
I installed solar panels on my house. Given how expensive electricity is in California, I estimated it'd only take me around 5-6 years to break even, and that number keeps going down as they increase electricity prices higher and higher. Electricity prices doubled from 2022 to 2024.
Electricity is significantly cheaper in areas that have municipal electricity, ran by the city itself. In PG&E's area, it's 62 cents per kWh during summer peak. On the other hand, I used to live in Palo Alto where electricity is around 18 cents per kWh, flat rate (no peak and off-peak rates).
I'm not sure if natural gas in California is expensive compared to other areas, but I have natural gas in my heater, water heater, laundry, stove, and oven and I pay less than $30/month. My electricity bill is an order of magnitude higher each month and there's only two people in my household and we don't even have an AC or electric vehicle.