Share My Data

• When you use electricity in your home or business, the data is tracked through the meter and reported back to PG&E.
• PG&E will share collected data about your energy usage with companies you have selected.

• PG&E developed Share My Data in response to a challenge by the White House to utility companies to provide customers with their energy usage information in an easy-to-use format. This initiative, originally called Green Button, makes your detailed energy usage information available in a standardized file format, and is intended to empower customers by raising awareness of energy usage and encourage companies to develop new, innovative customer-focused applications.

• Energy conservation helps make the energy grid in California more reliable. It can also save you money.
• PG&E does not make higher profits by selling more energy, which makes PG&E and other investor-owned utilities in California distinctly different from 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 you conserve energy it's good for you and it’s good for our business.

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• Yes. Visit greenbuttondata.org to find a list of other utilities that are implementing similar programs

• There is no cost to use Share My Data.

• Yes, however it does require technical integration with PG&E to set up and operate RESTful web services (API Access). Customers with this capability can choose Self-Access User for the User Type when registering to obtain their data.

Find more information at Access your own data

• Customers who are unable to access their PG&E online account can submit an authorization form indicating they would like to authorize the release of their data to their selected companies that are approved Share My Data companies.
• PG&E will then set up the authorization on behalf of the customer.

Download Share My Data Customer Authorization or Revocation of Authorization Form (PDF, 308 KB)

• Companies that have registered to use Share My Data to access customer-authorized data are listed on our website, and you can authorize them to access your data with a few clicks.

• Authorization can take place either through your online account or directly through the website of the company you have selected.

For more information, visit How to share your data with a company

• Yes. Through Share My Data, you have the flexibility to mix and match which companies receive the usage data for your service(s).
• The companies will only have access to the services you authorize—regardless of how many additional services you might have.

• When you authorize a company to access your energy usage information, PG&E will share your electric interval usage data for your selected account numbers and associated Service Agreements (SAs). PG&E provides the usage data at the same granularity as collected for billing purposes, which is generally hourly for residential customers and at fifteen minutes intervals for commercial customers. The energy usage data includes up to 48 months of historical interval usage data and, if designated by you, on-going access to next-day interval usage until the end date you have specified.

PLEASE NOTE: Companies must retrieve the customer data for a given day within five days of it being made available. PG&E will also indicate your billing start and end dates, and what data is revenue quality (i.e., used or acceptable for billing purposes).

Companies must meet the following criteria to register as a Share My Data vendor:

• Own a valid Tax ID
• Have eligible standing with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)
• Possess certain technical capabilities (oAuth 2.0 and API capabilities)
• Provide transparency to customers on how they will use the customer data
• Agree to the Share My Data Tariff and Terms and Condition. Download Share My Data Customer Terms and Conditions (PDF, 47 KB).

• Share My Data will only provide relevant Personal Identifiable Information (PII) with the company, if authorized. Otherwise, when data is transferred over to the company via the API, we simply give the company your usage information and a masked number for your Service Agreement ID.

PLEASE NOTE: It is always important to select a reputable vendor with whom to share your data. PG&E cannot control the use of your data once you release it to an approved company. The registration process requires a company to be in eligible standing with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and be transparent with how your data will be used.