Wow, that is expensive electricity. Ours (Maryland) is around 12 cents/kwh. As I say, we have solar panels, so we have not paid anything for electricity for the last five years, except for a $6/month connection charge (I think that's going up to $10/month). So far we've gotten back a $couple hundred at the end of each year because our net usage is negative.

You can’t even get money back from PG&E. At most, they’ll neutralize your bill every month to near zero. Any excess you create is typically not credited or rolled over.

They really discourage solar in a variety of other ways as well.