Energy Toolbase June 2021 Utility Rates Newsletter
New international rates added into the database, important monthly updates regarding regulated price plan rates and generation rates, plus our monthly FAQ. Skim our monthly utility rates newsletter for all the latest info for your projects:
Meet our Utility Rates Team – Why they’re so important to ETB
Energy Toolbase has always considered our utility rates team to be the backbone of our organization. Our rates team plays a critical role both internally and with our customers, and they wear several hats. In addition to upkeeping our ever-expanding rates database, which now spans over 70,000 unique rate schedules, …
Energy Toolbase March Utility Rates Newsletter

Energy Toolbase’s March Utility Rates Newsletter
WEBINAR: Ready or Not, Here they Come: PG&E’s New B Rates become Mandatory

After several delays, PG&E’s B rates will become mandatory for all commercial customers in its service territory. The mandatory transition of existing customers to the new rates was originally planned to begin in November of 2020, which was delayed until March of 2021. The transition in March will begin by shifting customers that have an interval meter and at least 12-months of hourly usage data available.
February 2021 Utility Rates Newsletter
February Utility Rates Newsletter Here are some important utility rate updates and changes that our rates team has seen in the last month that we wanted to share IMPORTANT MONTHLY UPDATES New Approach to Maintaining Database The ETB Data team has started implementing new practices that enable us to update …
Our Inaugural (Monthly) ETB Utility Rates Newsletter
We’re excited to announce the launch of our ETB Utility Rates Newsletter. Our team plans to publish this once monthly throughout 2021 and it will include all things utility rates, including significant rate changes we’re seeing utilities implement, statistics on our ever-expanding rates database, rates FAQ’s from our userbase, and …
Our Utility Rates Team’s Top 10 Most Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Utility rates are a major factor when you’re modeling the avoided cost of your solar and energy storage projects in Energy Toolbase. We take pride in having the most accurate and transparent rate schedules in our database for our users, and our in-house rates team is there to ensure they …
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) implements new rates and increases existing ones (May 2020)

Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), one of California’s big three investor-owned utilities (IOUs), increased its existing electric rates and implemented additional ones on May 1, 2020. With this increase, PG&E forecasts a $770 million increase to its electric revenue. According to the Advice Letter 5661-E-A , this results in an …
Southern California Edison (SCE) increases rates 7% across the board (April 2020)
Southern California Edison (SCE), one of California’s big three investor-owned utilities (IOU), is on the brink of implementing significant increases to their bundled electric rates. Next week, on Monday, April 13 , 2020, SCE is scheduled to raise rates by an average of roughly 7%, which will affect all categories …
PG&E implementing new ‘B’ rates on November 1, 2019
Pacific Gas & Electric is the last of the three main California investor-owned utilities (IOUs) to implement rate changes that are a result of their 2017-2019 General Rate Case (GRC). Every three years the IOUs are required to submit a formal proposal to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) addressing …