SAN FRANCISCO — PG&E customers must brace for a double-digit increase in their monthly gas bills after state regulators Thursday approved a program to pay for upgrades to the utility’s aging pipeline system in the wake of the deadly San Bruno explosion.
By 2018, monthly bills for natural gas will be 11.6 percent higher than they were in January 2015, according to estimates provided during Thursday’s meeting of the state Public Utilities Commission.
The rate increases are scheduled to begin Aug. 1.
“The PG&E gas transmission and storage system is a massive and aging system,” PUC Commissioner Carla Peterman said before the PUC’s 4-0 vote to approve the new financing program.
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