Your bill, explained
Your PG&E bill, explained
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$648.42 for one month
Electric delivery, the electricity itself and gas, together.
Delivery: $442.03
PG&E brings the power to the house: the wires, programs and taxes.
The power: $167.04
From MCE, a community power provider. PG&E still delivers it and sends one bill.
Gas: $39.35
On the same statement. Solar doesn't touch it.
About 43¢ per kWh, all in
Delivery and power together, divided by the kWh used (45.24 a day over 31 days). Leave the gas out.
$609.07÷1,403 kWh=43.4¢
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31 days, split at June 1
Summer prices start June 1, so this bill is priced in two parts.
Time-of-use: 4 to 9 p.m. costs most
Peak is every day, 4 to 9 p.m. Here it ran 39.8¢ a kWh in May and 52.2¢ from June 1, against 36.8¢ and 39.9¢ the rest of the day.
Peak and off-peak, by the kWh
Each period lists its peak and off-peak kWh at its own price. Summer peak is the most expensive power on the bill.
Baseline credit: −8.1¢
Your first 9.7 to 9.8 kWh a day, set by climate territory, get 8.14¢ off each.
Generation credit: −$161.13
PG&E takes out what its own power would have cost, because MCE supplies it. MCE's charge is on page 4.
PCIA: $51.71
Power Charge Indifference Adjustment. Settles the cost of power PG&E bought before this home switched to MCE.
35.5% of use at peak
Peak hours took $212.49 of the energy charges. Moving that use, or covering it with a battery, is where the savings are.
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MCE's price: 10.5¢ to 20.8¢
The electricity itself, by season and time of day, before delivery.
Cost relief credit: −$8.70
A temporary MCE credit through 12/31/2026.
$167.04 for the power
Add the $442.03 delivery and the electric part of the bill comes to $609.07.
MCE replaces PG&E's power
Its charge stands in for PG&E's generation, which is why page 3 shows a generation credit.
How PG&E prices your power
Two companies, one bill
PG&E always delivers the power and sends the statement. The power itself comes from PG&E or, in many places, a community power provider like MCE, with its own page. PG&E then credits back what its own power would have cost.
Time of day
On PG&E's time-of-use plan the most expensive hours are 4 to 9 p.m. every day, and summer peak prices start June 1. A baseline credit takes a little off each kWh up to a daily allowance set by where you live.
Ten years of rates
PG&E's average residential rate rose about 69% from January 2016 to June 2026, according to the CPUC's Public Advocates Office.
Solar with PG&E
New systems are on net billing: power sent back to the grid earns much less than power bought from it, so a battery stores the daytime sun for the 4 to 9 p.m. hours.
Source: CPUC net billing
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