Earlier this year, NBC Bay Area spoke with the CEO of PG&E about how customers’ bills should be falling in 2026, but some customers may have recently received a flyer in the mail about a pending rate hike proposal for 2027.

The company will make the ask before the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) later this week, and the public will be able to weigh in.

For the last couple of years, PG&E has been on what it expects will be an expensive yearslong project to bury many of its power lines that are in wildfire prone areas. Despite that, the company says it is committed to stabilizing the costs it is passing on to residential customers.

“Our electric bills are lower today than they were in January a year ago,” PG&E spokesman Mike Gazda said. “They’re expected to go down next year

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