Yeah it's pretty disgusting that just 1000 miles away I'm paying 9x as much for my power thanks to Edison hiking up the rates again for the next 3 years. Sad that it costs more for electricity in metropolitan Los Angeles than it does on a secluded island like Hawaii.
Too many people, too much demand, it forces California to buy power from surrounding states and they likely think their is too many people in LA, so they don't feel like they should give California a discount on the rates. It really taxes a lot of resource from that region.