It seems that the bulk of the savings for making an urban municipal utility come from not having to pay for upgrades in fire-prone regions. And the end game is that cities will have their own utilities with lower rates, whereas rural people will be adverse selected to be stuck with PG&E and pay thousands of dollars per month on energy. Wouldn’t it be easier for PG&E themselves to implement this desired rate schedule where urban rates are cheap and rural rates are expensive? It seems odd that the PUC would not allow PG&E to charge extraordinary rates for rural areas today, but they do allow cities to buy up the good parts of PG&E which will inevitably lead to the same outcome in the future.