Energy customers to pay more for use during peak hours starting March 2022

Utility customers across California, including hundreds of thousands with PG&E and MCE in multiple Bay Area counties, will see their rate plans automatically change early next year to one that will charge more for electricity used between the peak demand hours of 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. each day unless customers actively choose to keep their current plan.

The privately owned utility PG&E and nonprofit community choice aggregation program MCE issued a joint announcement about the planned changes set to take effect in March 2022 that will affect nearly 338,000 customers in Contra Costa, Marin, Solano and Napa counties who are currently on a tiered rate plan called E-1.