Residential PG&E Customers Can Now Easily Access Electricity Usage Data from Apple Home App
PG&E has partnered with Apple to provide residential electric customers access to new electricity usage features within the Home app. This collaboration allows customers to connect their PG&E account to the app, enabling them to monitor and understand their electricity consumption on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.
The Home app now includes daily and weekly usage views, showing electricity consumption patterns and changes over time. It also displays the percentage of electricity used during Peak and Off-Peak hours, helping customers understand their usage in relation to Time-of-Use rate plans. Additionally, a Grid Forecast feature highlights times when cleaner energy sources are available on the grid.
This initiative aims to help customers save money and reduce emissions by providing insights into their energy usage and encouraging consumption during cleaner and less expensive hours.
PG&E ha collaborato con Apple per fornire ai clienti residenziali elettrici l'accesso a nuove funzionalità di consumo elettrico all'interno dell'app Home. Questa collaborazione consente ai clienti di collegare il proprio account PG&E all'app, permettendo loro di monitorare e comprendere il proprio consumo elettrico su iPhone, iPad, Mac e Apple Watch.
L'app Home ora include visualizzazioni giornaliere e settimanali dell'uso, mostrando i modelli di consumo elettrico e i cambiamenti nel tempo. Mostra anche la percentuale di elettricità utilizzata durante le ore di punta e le ore non di punta, aiutando i clienti a comprendere il proprio utilizzo in relazione ai piani tariffari a consumo. Inoltre, una funzione di previsione della rete evidenzia i momenti in cui fonti di energia più pulite sono disponibili nella rete.
Questa iniziativa mira ad aiutare i clienti a risparmiare denaro e ridurre le emissioni fornendo informazioni sul loro consumo energetico e incoraggiando il consumo durante le ore più pulite e meno costose.
PG&E se ha asociado con Apple para ofrecer a los clientes residenciales de electricidad acceso a nuevas funciones de consumo eléctrico dentro de la aplicación Home. Esta colaboración permite a los clientes conectar su cuenta de PG&E con la aplicación, lo que les permite monitorear y comprender su consumo eléctrico en iPhone, iPad, Mac y Apple Watch.
La aplicación Home ahora incluye vistas de uso diarias y semanales, mostrando los patrones de consumo eléctrico y los cambios a lo largo del tiempo. También muestra el porcentaje de electricidad utilizado durante horas pico y horas no pico, ayudando a los clientes a entender su uso en relación con los planes de tarifas por hora de uso. Además, una función de pronóstico de la red destaca los momentos en que fuentes de energía más limpias están disponibles en la red.
Esta iniciativa tiene como objetivo ayudar a los clientes a ahorrar dinero y reducir las emisiones proporcionando información sobre su uso de energía y fomentando el consumo durante horas más limpias y menos costosas.
PG&E는 Apple과 협력하여 주택 전기 고객이 Home 앱 내에서 새로운 전기 사용 기능에 접근할 수 있도록 하고 있습니다. 이 협업을 통해 고객은 PG&E 계정을 앱에 연결하고, 이를 통해 자신의 전기 소비를 모니터링하고 이해할 수 있습니다. iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch에서 모두 가능합니다.
Home 앱은 이제 일일 및 주간 사용 보기를 포함하여 전기 소비 패턴과 시간에 따른 변화를 보여줍니다. 또한 피크와 비피크 시간 동안 사용된 전기 비율을 표시하여 고객이 시간제로 요금제와 자신의 사용을 이해하는 데 도움을 줍니다. 추가로, 그리드 예측 기능은 전력망에서 더 깨끗한 에너지원이 이용 가능한 시간을 강조합니다.
이 이니셔티브는 고객이 비용을 절감하고 배출량을 줄이도록 돕는 것을 목표로 하며 에너지 사용에 대한 통찰력을 제공하고 더 깨끗하고 저렴한 시간대에 소비를 권장합니다.
PG&E s'est associé à Apple pour offrir aux clients résidentiels d'électricité l'accès à de nouvelles fonctionnalités de suivi de l'utilisation de l'électricité au sein de l'application Home. Cette collaboration permet aux clients de connecter leur compte PG&E à l'application, leur permettant de surveiller et de comprendre leur consommation d'électricité sur iPhone, iPad, Mac et Apple Watch.
L'application Home inclut désormais des vues d'utilisation quotidiennes et hebdomadaires, montrant les modèles de consommation et les changements au fil du temps. Elle affiche également le pourcentage d'électricité utilisé pendant les heures de pointe et hors pointe, aidant les clients à comprendre leur consommation par rapport aux plans tarifaires. De plus, une fonction de prévision du réseau met en lumière les moments où des sources d'énergie plus propres sont disponibles sur le réseau.
Cette initiative vise à aider les clients à économiser de l'argent et à réduire les émissions en fournissant des informations sur leur consommation d'énergie et en encourageant la consommation pendant des heures plus propres et moins chères.
PG&E hat sich mit Apple zusammengetan, um Wohnkunden den Zugang zu neuen Stromverbrauchsfunktionen innerhalb der Home-App zu ermöglichen. Diese Zusammenarbeit ermöglicht es den Kunden, ihr PG&E-Konto mit der App zu verbinden, sodass sie ihren Stromverbrauch überwachen und verstehen können auf iPhone, iPad, Mac und Apple Watch.
Die Home-App umfasst jetzt tägliche und wöchentliche Verbrauchsansichten, die Verbrauchsmuster und Änderungen im Laufe der Zeit anzeigen. Sie zeigt auch den Prozentsatz des Stromverbrauchs während Spitzen- und Niedrigverbrauchszeiten an, um den Kunden zu helfen, ihren Verbrauch im Hinblick auf die Zeitnutzungs-Tarife zu verstehen. Darüber hinaus hebt eine Netzvorhersage-Funktion Zeiten hervor, in denen sauberere Energiequellen im Netz verfügbar sind.
Diese Initiative zielt darauf ab, den Kunden zu helfen, Geld zu sparen und Emissionen zu reduzieren, indem sie Einblicke in ihren Energieverbrauch bietet und den Verbrauch während sauberer und kostengünstigerer Zeiten fördert.
- Integration with Apple Home app provides customers with easy access to electricity usage data
- Customers can make informed decisions about energy consumption, potentially leading to cost savings
- Grid Forecast feature promotes use of cleaner energy sources
- PG&E's energy mix is one of the cleanest in the nation, with 34% from renewable resources and 53% from carbon-free nuclear power in 2023
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Insights
PG&E's integration with Apple's Home app represents a significant step in consumer energy management. This collaboration allows customers to visualize their electricity usage patterns and understand peak vs. off-peak consumption. The inclusion of a Grid Forecast feature is particularly innovative, enabling users to align their energy use with cleaner power sources.
This technology empowers consumers to make data-driven decisions about their energy consumption, potentially leading to reduced bills and lower carbon footprints. The 48-hour delay in data availability is a minor drawback, but the long-term tracking capabilities offer valuable insights for users to optimize their energy habits.
From an industry perspective, this partnership between a major utility and a tech giant could set a new standard for user-friendly energy management tools, potentially influencing other utilities to follow suit.
While this initiative doesn't directly impact PG&E's immediate financial performance, it has potential long-term benefits. By providing customers with tools to manage their energy use more efficiently, PG&E could see reduced peak demand, leading to lower infrastructure costs and improved grid stability.
Moreover, this customer-centric approach could enhance customer satisfaction and retention, which is important in markets with increasing competition from alternative energy providers. The partnership with Apple also positions PG&E as an innovative utility, potentially attracting environmentally conscious customers and investors.
However, if successful in reducing energy consumption, this could lead to lower revenue from electricity sales. PG&E will need to balance this with potential cost savings and regulatory incentives for promoting energy efficiency.
PG&E Customers Can Access, Understand, and Make Informed Decisions about their Electricity Usage from the Home App on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch
Being familiar with how electricity is measured and how usage shifts over time can help customers better understand their home energy use and potential changes they can make to save money and energy.
"The collaboration between PG&E and Apple puts electricity usage data directly into customer's hands, providing further visibility into when electricity is cleanest and lowest cost, and ultimately helping our customers save on their energy bills while reducing emissions," said Mike Delaney, vice president, Utility Partnerships and Innovation, PG&E.
Electricity Usage Features in the Home App
The new Electricity Usage feature in the Home app includes daily and weekly views, providing direct insight on how much electricity is used, and how it changes by the hour and day-to-day. It takes approximately 48 hours for usage information to appear in the app, so customers can see their usage starting two days earlier and then extending to monthly and yearly views for longer-term comparisons.
The updated Home app provides a snapshot of the percentage of electricity used during both Peak and Off-Peak hours.
- Electricity costs are dependent on how much a customer uses, when they use it, and their rate plan. Residential PG&E customers default to Time-of-Use rate plans, which means rates vary at different times of the day, based on the demand for electricity.
- Peak (typically 4:00-9:00 p.m.) is when rates and demand are higher. Off-Peak (typically 12:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. and 9 p.m.-12:00 a.m.) is when rates and demand are lower.
The Home app also includes a Grid Forecast feature, which highlights times of the day when electricity from cleaner sources, such as solar or wind power, is available on the grid.
- PG&E's energy mix is one of the cleanest in the nation: in 2023,
34% of PG&E's total electricity delivered to retail customers—residential customers and businesses to whom the company directly sells electricity—came from specified eligible-renewable resources, including solar and wind, small hydroelectric generation and biopower. PG&E retail customers also received53% of their electric deliveries from carbon-free nuclear power generated by Diablo Canyon Power Plant, and13% from large hydroelectric power.
What Impacts Electricity Usage?
The size of a customer's home, how it was built, and the local climate are some of the factors that impact how much electricity is used. Heating and cooling systems, appliances, and lighting are also significant factors in determining electricity usage.
Knowing what consumes the most electricity in the home can also help customers maximize usage during cleaner and less expensive hours of the day.
- Cooling and heating systems, water heaters, electric vehicle charging, electric vehicle charging, refrigerators, washers and dryers, and incandescent or halogen lighting are considered some of the highest electricity consumers.
- Ceiling fans, dishwashers, toaster ovens, TVs, laptops, and LED or fluorescent lighting are considered lower electricity consumers.
Connecting a Residential PG&E Account to the Home App
Residential customers can connect their PG&E account to the Home app on iPhone, iPad, or Mac running the latest software.1 To connect a PG&E account to the Home app on iPhone, follow these instructions:
1. Go to the Home app on your iPhone.
2. Tap the Home tab, then tap Home Settings.
3. Tap Energy, then tap Connect Account.
4. Follow the onscreen instructions to link your PG&E account.
Once these steps have been completed, the Electricity Usage feature will begin syncing energy usage data, which may take a few hours to appear.
About PG&E
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE: PCG), is a combined natural gas and electric utility serving more than sixteen million people across 70,000 square miles in Northern and
1 Residential PG&E customers can connect their PG&E account to the Home app on iPhone running iOS 18 and later, iPad running iPadOS 18 and later, and Mac running macOS Sequoia and later.
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