Our local PUD has just been going off the rails in recent years, allegedly because they have a lot of "infrastructure updates" to fund.

Our most recent power bill was $333.31; granted, it includes Christmas and we're in mid-winter here in the Northwest, which means days are on the short side and we have lights on from 4:00 in the afternoon, and often all day on cloudy dark days. But that's a small town rate; not a city. AND I turned 65 last year, so it even includes a $55 "senior discount."

We get a similar little "power usage" graph, also comparing to the previous year... we actually used less power than the corresponding period last year... and yet our bill is almost $90 higher...