Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E)

Is Your PG&E Bill Too High? Sunrun Can Help.

Learn How to Lower Your PG&E Bill with Solar Panels & a Home Battery Today

It’s no secret Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) bills have skyrocketed in recent years. To dig a little deeper, at the end of 2015 an average home monthly PG&E bill was roughly $138, but by the end of 2016, customers with similar natural gas and electricity usage were already paying around $152 per month — that’s a yearly increase of approximately 10%!¹

Unfortunately, electric bill price jumps haven’t stopped since then. In 2017 alone, PG&E energy bills reached an average of $165 per month; and now in 2018, customers are seeing electricity rates 14% higher compared to 2015.²

Before we dive into the details of how a solar plan from Sunrun can help lower your PG&E for the next 25 years or longer, let’s take a couple of minutes to get to know PG&E a little better, as well as the things they’re doing to keep your community and the environment cleaner, healthier and safer.

Who Is PG&E and How Many Customers Do They Have?

PG&E is one of the largest electricity companies in the United States. Based in San Francisco, it provides electricity and natural gas services to nearly two-thirds of Northern California households, and almost all the way up to Oregon’s border. Adding up to a portfolio of 5.4 million electric and 4.3 million natural gas customer accounts.³

How to Save on Your Electric Bill as a PG&E Customer

While doing a home energy checkup, upgrading your old thermostat to dial up your home’s energy efficiency or changing your energy habits are smart ways to save on your electricity bill⁴; when you go solar in California with a company like Sunrun, you’ll have the power to create your own energy.

Clean, affordable, reliable home energy that lets you control your summer billing cycles even better, boost your year-round energy savings, and reduce your carbon emissions. Plus, installing solar panels in the U.S. is now more affordable than ever!⁵ And with us Sunrunners, you have several solar and home battery plans to choose from regardless of your budget or home energy needs.