I'm glad to see that this time, PUD isn't going to load this whole increase onto the base charge, as has become normal around here.  

When the electric bill for a tiny house that uses 800 KW a day goes up by the same $5, or $10, as the bill for a large house that uses 2500 KW a day, the small user is getting stuck with a much bigger increase than the big one. 

This increase, by contrast, will be at least a little bit fair.  

And our PUD does a good job of keeping costs down  --  any time I start feeling indignant about my PUD rate increases, I just ask somebody who lives in the City of PA what they pay for their utilities.  I'm always shocked.  Then I contemplate the small, uncomplicated grid that City Light maintains, versus the huge, sprawling, challenging one PUD keeps up  --  and I go back to feeling pretty good about our PUD.