Green Button
Now you can download your detailed energy usage with the simple click of a button.
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What is Green Button?
Responding to the challenge issued by the White House in Fall 2011, PG&E launched "Green Button" for its customers enabling a simple download of personalized energy usage data through its secure website, My Energy. Using Green Button:
- Customers can download their personal energy usage data
- Developers and third parties can receive energy usage data from customers in machine-readable form
How do I download my Green Button data?
You need to have a My Energy account and an electric SmartMeter™ connected to the network.
Log in to My Energy or Register.
Log in to My Energy and click on the My
Usage tab.
Click on the Green Button icon and select your download format.
Now you can use the file yourself or send it to a third party.
FAQ
Why is PG&E doing this?
PG&E responded to the challenge from the White House to design a standard format for customers to access energy usage data online. PG&E launched what's called the Green Button on December 18, 2011, and is pleased to be among the first utilities in the country to empower customers with their own data in a portable format never before available. Making detailed energy usage information available in a standardized file format encourages awareness of energy use as well as innovation among third parties for new customer-focused applications.
How does Green Button benefit customers?
Using Green Button, customers can easily provide their energy usage data to third parties who are developing applications and tools to help consumers manage their energy use. Through the Green Button, customers can download their personal data and send the file to any third party they choose. Previously that option wasn’t available.
Is my private information kept secure when I download my data through the Green Button?
Yes. We have in place the latest password and security protections that prevent third parties from accessing a customer's personal data. Once a customer logs into My Energy and download's their own personal energy usage data through the Green Button, they can choose to send it to a third party. You can learn more about our commitment to customer privacy at www.pge.com/privacy.
Can third parties access this file directly from PG&E's website?
No. Customers must download the file to their own computers and then send the file to third parties. As part of our commitment to maintaining customer privacy, PG&E does not deliver the file directly to
third parties.
How much data is in the file?
Customers can designate up to 13 months of data to be delivered in a single file. If the customer has not had a SmartMeter™ connected to the network for that long, then the customer can only download the amount of interval data since the transition.
Why does PG&E wants its customers to use less energy?
Energy conservation helps makes our energy grid more reliable in California and directly helps our customers save on their energy bill when they use less.
PG&E does not make higher profits by selling more energy, which makes PG&E and other investor-owned utilities in California distinctly different than most companies that make profits by selling more of a given commodity. One way PG&E makes money is through incentives earned by achieving energy efficiency goals set by our regulator, the California Public Utilities Commission.
When our customers conserve energy it's good for them and it's good for our business. Learn more at www.pge.com/rates/
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Privacy
We're committed to maintaining our customers' privacy. PG&E does not deliver energy usage data directly to third parties.
Third Parties and Developers
Third parties who have been authorized by customers to access their usage data, may choose to download a xml or csv file. Below we have provided a sample file for each of the downloadable formats.
