Americans, Including Solar-Powered Americans, Grade Their Utilities (Infographic)

July 8th, 2012 by Zachary Shahan

Here’s an interesting little infographic from the folks at 1BOG, based on a 1BOG poll about electric consumers’ opinions of their utilities. Enjoy.

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In baseball, the sports writers vote for the Hall of Fame. We need something like that because, I submit, we the people got it pretty wrong.

Take for example Pacific Gas and Electric which got C for general happiness and a C for commitment to green technologies. Should be more like F/B.

The utility is killing people, for heaven’s sakes. It scrimped on gas line inspection, upgrade and safety measures resulting in an explosion and fire that wiped out a neighborhood and killed eight people in 2010: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_San_Bruno_pipeline_explosion. There have been other explosions since then including one in Cupertino. Pure negligence. If that isn’t an F, what is?

On the other hand PG&E has had solar incentives for many years resulting in one of the biggest uptakes of residential solar and now utility scale solar in the country. It took a boot in the rear from the Public Utilities Commission to do this, so just a B.