Commercial Energy Management in the Bay Area
Bay Area is PG&E territory, where competitive supply exists but is capped or routed through a public program rather than open bidding. We work every route that is genuinely available, alongside rate design and demand management.
How Energy Buying Works in Bay Area
The Bay Area is the most CCA-saturated market in the country: CleanPowerSF in San Francisco, San José Clean Energy, and Ava Community Energy across the East Bay now supply generation for most commercial accounts, with PG&E reduced to delivery. That means the generation line on your bill is set by a public agency's rate schedule rather than by a supplier you negotiated with — and it also means the two lines are separable, which many facility managers here do not realise. Lab and data hall load in NP15 is dense and flat, so the demand and delivery components dominate, and rate schedule boundaries at 75 kW and 500 kW are where the real money sits.
California opened to competition in 1998, but the terms are set territory by territory, not statewide. PG&E's distribution rates, its default supply price and its rate schedules are all set independently of the other utilities in California — which is why an offer that is genuinely competitive in one part of the state can be mediocre here. Everything on this page is scoped to PG&E specifically.
PG&E Commercial Rates
Which schedule you are on sets the shape of the bill before a single kilowatt-hour is priced.
| Schedule | Typically covers |
|---|---|
| B-1 | small commercial, under 75 kW |
| B-10 | medium commercial, roughly 75 to 499 kW |
| B-19 | large commercial, 500 kW to 999 kW |
| B-20 | transmission-level and very large accounts |
Schedule names, demand thresholds and eligibility rules change with each rate case, and the schedule an account was originally placed on is frequently no longer the one that fits it. We verify yours against the actual bill rather than assuming — that check is free, and it is where a meaningful share of the savings on this page comes from.
Energy Management by Industry in Bay Area
Technology campuses, biotech, port and airport logistics, and dense office and lab space dominate commercial load here. Each sector carries a different load shape on PG&E, and the strategy changes with it.
Data Centers · concentrated here
Data Centers facilities in the Bay Area typically run 2,000,000+ kWh/month on a consistent extreme baseload profile, billed on PG&E commercial schedules.
Data Centers Energy in Bay Area →Property Management · concentrated here
Property Management facilities in the Bay Area typically run 150,000-600,000 kWh/month on a business hours peak for commercial, evening for residential profile, billed on PG&E commercial schedules.
Property Management Energy in Bay Area →Technology · concentrated here
Technology facilities in the Bay Area typically run 200,000-800,000 kWh/month on a extended hours with always-on equipment profile, billed on PG&E commercial schedules.
Technology Energy in Bay Area →Manufacturing
Manufacturing facilities in the Bay Area typically run 500,000+ kWh/month on a 24/7 baseload with peak production hours profile, billed on PG&E commercial schedules.
Manufacturing Energy in Bay Area →Healthcare
Healthcare facilities in the Bay Area typically run 800,000+ kWh/month on a constant high load with minimal fluctuation profile, billed on PG&E commercial schedules.
Healthcare Energy in Bay Area →Retail
Retail facilities in the Bay Area typically run 100,000-500,000 kWh/month on a high during business hours, lower overnight profile, billed on PG&E commercial schedules.
Retail Energy in Bay Area →Hospitality
Hospitality facilities in the Bay Area typically run 200,000-700,000 kWh/month on a variable based on occupancy and season profile, billed on PG&E commercial schedules.
Hospitality Energy in Bay Area →Education
Education facilities in the Bay Area typically run 300,000-1,000,000 kWh/month on a academic calendar-driven fluctuations profile, billed on PG&E commercial schedules.
Education Energy in Bay Area →Food Service
Food Service facilities in the Bay Area typically run 50,000-200,000 kWh/month on a meal period peaks with constant refrigeration baseload profile, billed on PG&E commercial schedules.
Food Service Energy in Bay Area →Warehouse & Logistics
Warehouse & Logistics facilities in the Bay Area typically run 400,000-1,500,000 kWh/month on a 24/7 operations with shift-based peaks profile, billed on PG&E commercial schedules.
Warehouse & Logistics Energy in Bay Area →Automotive
Automotive facilities in the Bay Area typically run 80,000-300,000 kWh/month on a business hours concentration with some 24/7 operations profile, billed on PG&E commercial schedules.
Automotive Energy in Bay Area →Municipal & Government
Municipal & Government facilities in the Bay Area typically run 200,000-800,000 kWh/month on a varies widely by facility type profile, billed on PG&E commercial schedules.
Municipal & Government Energy in Bay Area →Agriculture
Agriculture facilities in the Bay Area typically run 150,000-600,000 kWh/month on a highly seasonal with weather dependency profile, billed on PG&E commercial schedules.
Agriculture Energy in Bay Area →Cities in Bay Area
PG&E serves San Francisco, Santa Clara, Alameda, San Mateo, Contra Costa Counties.
San Francisco, CA
A PG&E market where CleanPowerSF and Direct Access give commercial accounts alternatives to bundled utility service.
San Francisco Energy Management →San Jose, CA
A PG&E territory where San Jose Clean Energy serves most commercial load.
San Jose Energy Management →Oakland, CA
A PG&E East Bay market served largely by East Bay Community Energy.
Oakland Energy Management →Other Utility Territories
Different utility, different rates. If your facilities span more than one of these, they need more than one strategy.
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Los Angeles Metro
LADWP · LADWP
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South Bay & Long Beach
Southern California Edison · CAISO SP15
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Orange County
Anaheim Public Utilities · Anaheim Public Utilities
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San Diego Metro
SDG&E · CAISO SP15
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Central Valley
PG&E · CAISO NP15
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Sacramento Metro
SMUD · SMUD
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