It’s been about six months since PG and E started transitioning customers to its new Time-of-Use rate plan. The idea is to get residents to use less energy during the peak period, which is 4 to 9pm, when rates will be higher. Utility spokesperson Brandi Merlo says around four-thousand customers in Nevada County had the option, starting in April, of joining the plan right away, instead of waiting as long as two more years. She says around 24-hundred said “yes”. Customers have still had the option to go back to their old rate plan until April of next year if they didn’t like the new billing…

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Meanwhile, Merlo indicates that customer feedback has not been very negative…

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Merlo says a full transition to the Time-of-Use plan will take place around the fall of 2020. SMUD customers in Sacramento will be fully phased in by April of next year.