PG&E Rate Schedules in 2026: Every Residential Tariff, Its Price and Where to Find It

A PG&E rate schedule is the CPUC-approved tariff that sets what you pay for electricity. Most homes are on E-TOU-C, with peak pricing from 4 to 9 p.m. every day. The other residential schedules are E-TOU-D, the tiered E-1, E-ELEC for electric homes, EV2-A and EV-B for electric vehicles, and EM, ES, ET and ESR for shared meters.

This page is one part of our tracker of California electricity rates.

Every price below is from PG&E's residential rate table for March 1, 2026 to the present and the matching tariff sheets, checked September 23, 2026. They are "bundled" prices, for customers who buy both electricity and delivery from PG&E. If a community choice aggregator supplies your power, your generation price comes from the CCA instead.

Every PG&E residential rate schedule

PG&E's tariff book lists each schedule by its code and official name. These are the ones that bill homes. Prices are per kWh, including generation and delivery.

PG&E has closed several older schedules. E-6 was eliminated on March 1, 2024, E-TOU Option A was discontinued at the end of 2020, E-TOU-B was eliminated on October 31, 2025, and the EV-A rate was eliminated under Advice Letter 7771-E. If an old bill or a solar proposal shows one of those codes, it no longer applies.

The Base Services Charge on every schedule

Since March 1, 2026, most PG&E residential schedules add a flat daily Base Services Charge, and the per-kWh prices above are lower because of it. The charge depends on income, not usage:

Our explainer on California's $24 fixed charge covers how the CPUC set it and who qualifies for the lower tiers.

E-1 and PG&E's rate tiers

E-1 is the only standard single-family schedule without peak hours. You pay 32.561 cents per kWh until you use up your baseline allowance, then 40.702 cents. The allowance is a daily figure multiplied by the days in the bill, and it depends on your baseline territory (a letter from P to Z on your bill), the season and whether the home is all-electric. A basic-service home in territory T gets 6.5 kWh a day in summer; one in territory W gets 19.2.

The tier structure is why an E-1 bill can climb faster than usage: every kWh above the allowance costs about 25% more. Our PG&E tier rates guide has the full allowance table and the history of both tier prices since 2023.

Winter, summer and weekend prices

Summer on PG&E means June 1 to September 30 on every residential schedule except EV Rate B. Winter prices are lower and closer together, which makes the peak matter less from October to May. On E-TOU-C, the summer gap between peak and off-peak is 12.3 cents; in winter it is 3 cents.

Weekend treatment is the other difference between schedules:

• E-TOU-C, E-ELEC and EV2-A keep the 4 to 9 p.m. peak every day, including weekends and holidays.
• E-TOU-D charges peak only from 5 to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday; weekends and holidays are off-peak all day.
• EV Rate B has a 2 to 9 p.m. weekday peak and a 3 to 7 p.m. peak on weekends and holidays.

The eight holidays PG&E treats as off-peak on E-TOU-D are New Year's Day, Presidents' Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. For the hour-by-hour picture, see PG&E peak hours and time-of-use rates.

Solar schedules: NEM, NEM2 and the Net Billing Tariff

Solar customers are billed on one of the schedules above plus a solar schedule. NEM and NEM2 are the older net energy metering tariffs; NBT, the Net Billing Tariff, is what PG&E calls the Solar Billing Plan. Under NEM and NEM2, any surplus left at the annual true-up is paid at the net surplus compensation rate, which follows wholesale prices. PG&E's table shows 2.919 to 3.396 cents per kWh for true-up months in 2025 and 2.751 cents for September 2026, against retail prices of 30 cents and more.

New solar customers must take service on E-ELEC. The differences between the tariffs are laid out in NEM 1.0 vs NEM 2.0 vs NEM 3.0, and what rate solar homes pay covers the plan requirement.

Where to download a PG&E tariff and how to read it

PG&E's tariff page lists every electric schedule, rule and form with a PDF link. The schedule PDFs are named after the code, for example ELEC_SCHEDS_E-TOU-C.pdf or ELEC_SCHEDS_EV2 (Sch).pdf for EV2-A. Each sheet has the same parts:

• Header and footer. The Cal. P.U.C. sheet number, the advice letter that changed it and the effective date. E-TOU-D's rate sheet, for instance, cites Advice Letter 7846-E, effective March 1, 2026.
• Applicability. Who may take the schedule. E-TOU-D calls itself voluntary and opt-in; E-ELEC requires a qualifying technology such as EV charging, a battery or a heat pump.
• Rates. The total bundled price and, further down, the unbundled pieces (generation, distribution, transmission and others).
• Special conditions. Time periods, seasons, holidays, baseline rules and bill protection.

Some sheets change for reasons other than price. E-1's first sheet was revised on June 1, 2026 to show the California Climate Credit of $36.18 in the August and September bill cycles, while its per-kWh prices stayed at the March 1 levels.

How and when PG&E rates change

PG&E cannot set its own prices. The CPUC reviews PG&E's core operating and investment costs in a general rate case every four years, and other costs, such as buying power, transmission and public purpose programs, go through separate rate cases. When a change is approved, PG&E files an advice letter that turns it into prices and publishes a new rate table. That is why prices can move several times in one year.

Recent cuts. PG&E says it lowered electric prices five times in two years, most recently on March 1, 2026, and that residential prices were then 13% lower than in January 2024. The CPUC Public Advocates Office puts PG&E's residential average at 33.7 cents per kWh in June 2026, down from 38.6 cents a year earlier.

Why the long-term trend is still up. Over ten years, the Public Advocates Office reports PG&E's residential rate up 69%, and names wildfire mitigation and liability costs, transmission and distribution spending, and rooftop solar incentives as the main statewide drivers. Looking ahead, PG&E says its 2027-2030 general rate case would keep combined bills about flat in 2027, while the Public Advocates Office calculates that PG&E's rate case and other expected requests together could raise the average bill by 16% in 2027 and 30% by 2030 if approved. The CPUC decides. Our history of every PG&E rate change since 2023 tracks each step.

Which schedule is cheapest for you

There is no single cheapest schedule; it depends on when you use power. PG&E's rate plan comparison, inside your online account, prices the plans you qualify for against your own usage history. Two rules of thumb from the prices above: E-TOU-D rewards households that can avoid 5 to 8 p.m. on weekdays but use power on weekend evenings, and EV2-A or E-ELEC make sense only with a large, shiftable load such as an EV or heat pump. Our steps to lower a PG&E bill put the discounts first, and the PG&E EV rate guide compares the charging plans.