Any time you have increased market competition, that's generally a good thing. It will help moderate prices or price increases to California customers, to Oregon customers, and from Washington to Nevada. |
If that trend continues, it will help moderate customer prices in the future. |
If we can't get to a location, we can't assess it, and we can?t fix it. |
It has been significant the amount of damages this series of storms has caused. |
It's simple supply and demand equations. The greater the supply, the more effect it will have on prices. |
Many of these (outages) are one or two customers, and others are a couple hundred customers. |
San Jose is probably the only part of the Bay Area not heavily impacted. |
Some of those customers that don't practice energy conservation may see their bill increase by 20 or 30 percent. |
We absolutely have the best trained crews in the country if not the world. |
We made some great strides overnight. |
We've brought crews in from less affected areas to augment local crews. |