Residential
Green Access Program
Peninsula Clean Energy’s Green Access Program offers a 20% discount on monthly electric bills, on top of existing CARE or FERA discounts. This is part of a statewide program to help residents with their energy bills in communities that experience higher levels of environmental pollution.
Green Access
How it works
Peninsula Clean Energy is building new solar arrays to provide Green Access participants with 100% clean renewable energy. This solar is not installed on the roofs of the participants, but rather in other locations. PG&E still delivers this electricity to customers through their wires. This makes it easier for renters and other residents who have difficulty installing solar to participate.
Savings from the solar energy is passed to the program participants in the form of the 20% bill discount.
More information about this initiative of the California Public Utilities Commission can be found below.
Green Access
Eligibility
Peninsula Clean Energy Green Access customers must meet each of the following qualifications:
- Live in Peninsula Clean Energy’s service territory (San Mateo County or the City of Los Banos).
- Be on the CARE or FERA discount rate. See our Lower Your Bill page for more information.
- Live in a designated eligible census tract as defined by the state’s CalEnviroScreeen 4.0 map. This online map identifies California census tracts that are disproportionately burdened by multiple sources of pollution. Residents who live in a census tract with an overall percentile range of 75-100 may be eligible.
As eligibility is based on residential address, participating customers who move to a new eligible address must notify Peninsula Clean Energy within 90 days to maintain their discount.
Green Access
Enrollment
The Green Access program has limited capacity due to regulations from the California Public Utilities Commission. Customers are enrolled in Peninsula Clean Energy’s Green Access program in several ways:
- Some San Mateo County customers signed up for the discount through our partner organization El Concilio when the program launched in 2021. Additional eligible customers were then randomly selected and automatically enrolled to fill program capacity.
- All City of Los Banos customers who previously participated in PG&E’s equivalent program (called Green Saver) were automatically enrolled in Peninsula Clean Energy’s Green Access in April 2022 to continue enjoying the same 20% discount.
- A random selection of eligible customers is automatically enrolled by Peninsula Clean Energy as additional program capacity opens up.
Green Access
How the discount is calculated
The Peninsula Clean Energy Green Access discount is calculated by applying a 20% credit to the charges for electricity on the customer’s PG&E bill. This discount will be applied after any applicable discount for the California Alternate Rates for Energy (CARE) or Family Electric Rate Assistance (FERA) programs, and before any applicable taxes. The discount will appear as a credit in a new line item called Peninsula Clean Energy Green Access on the Peninsula Clean Energy Generation page of the bill, typically found on page 4.
2024 Prospective Product Content Label1
ECO
100
Green-e® energy verified new renewable2 in Peninsula Clean Energy’s Green Access 2024
For comparison, the current average mix of resources supplying PG&E includes: Coal (0%), Nuclear (49.3%), Oil (0%), Natural Gas (4.8%), Hydroelectric (7.6%), Eligible Renewable (38.3%) and Other (0%). This resource mix was prepared in accordance with California Energy Commission Power Source Disclosure for 2022.
The average home in San Mateo County uses 405 kWh per month. This is based on a representative 12-month billing history for all customers on the E-TOU-C rate schedule for PG&E and Peninsula Clean Energy’s published rates as of March, 2024.
For specific information about this product, please contact Peninsula Clean Energy, 1-866-966-0110, [email protected], www.PenCleanEnergy.com.
Green Access is Green-e® Energy certified, and meets the environmental and consumer-protection standards set forth by the nonprofit Center for Resource Solutions. Learn more at www.green-e.org
1 These figures reflect the renewables that we have contracted to provide. Actual figures may vary according to resource availability. We will annually report to you before August 1 of next year in the form of a Historical Product Content Label the actual resource mix of the electricity you purchased.
2 New Renewables come from generation facilities that first began commercial operation within the past 15 years.
3 Eligible hydroelectric facilities are defined in the Green-e® Renewable Energy Standard for Canada and the United States (http://www.green-e.org/standard) and include facilities certified by the Low Impact Hydropower Institute (LIHI) (www.lowimpacthydro.org) or EcoLogo (www.ecologo.org); and facilities comprised of a turbine in a pipeline or a turbine in an irrigation canal.
Green Access
Leaving the Program
Customers may leave the program at any time. There is no long-term contract or cancellation fee.
To unenroll
Green Access
Notification of Customer Change of Address
If you are a participating Peninsula Clean Energy Green Access customer and you move to a new eligible address in our service territory, please fill out the form below within 90 days of the final PG&E billing date at your last address.
If you are found to still be eligible, you will remain in the program as long as program capacity is available, your turn-on date at your new location is within 90 days of your final billing date at your original location, and you notify Peninsula Clean Energy of the new eligible address within this same 90-day period.
You can check if your new address is eligible by looking it up on the state’s CalEnviroScreen 4.0 map to see if it is located in an eligible census tract. This online map identifies California census tracts that are disproportionately burdened by multiple sources of pollution. Eligible census tracts are in the overall percentile range of 75-100. If you are not sure if your new address is eligible, fill out the form and Peninsula Clean Energy will verify eligibility.
Green Access Program
Price, terms and conditions
Historic Product Labels
2024 Historical Product Content Label1
Green Access matches 100% of your electricity usage. In 2024, Green Access was made up of the following new renewable resources averaged annually.
| Green-e® Energy Certified New2 Renewables in GREEN ACCESS 2024 | Generation location | |
| Biomass | % | |
| Geothermal | % | |
| Low impact hydroelectric3 | % | |
| Solar | 100% | California |
| Wind | % | |
| Total Green-e® Energy Certified New Renewables | 100% | California |
1 These figures reflect the power delivered to Green Access’ customers in 2024.
2 New Renewables come from generation facilities that first began commercial operation within the past 15 years.
3 Eligible hydroelectric facilities are defined in the Green-e® Renewable Energy Standard for Canada and the United States (http://www.green-e.org/standard) and include facilities certified by the Low Impact Hydropower Institute (LIHI) (www.lowimpacthydro.org) or EcoLogo (www.ecologo.org); and facilities comprised of a turbine in a pipeline or a turbine in an irrigation canal.
The Green-e® Energy Standard requires that renewable electricity and RECs generated in or delivered to California must be matched with greenhouse gas (GHG) emission allowances retired on behalf of the generation. This ensures that California customers are using renewable electricity or RECs that contribute to GHG reductions above and beyond what is required by state regulatory policies. In 2024, the pool of free voluntary allowances from the state’s Voluntary Renewable Energy Program (VREP) was depleted, and there is uncertainty around when more allowances will become available. The Green-e® Governance Board has approved a waiver allowing Green-e® certified products with VREP-eligible 2024 supply to not procure GHG allowances. As a result, California allowances were not retired on behalf of calendar year 2024 renewable MWh generation provided to customers of Green Access, and it therefore supported compliance with state GHG reduction programs rather than going above and beyond statewide emissions regulations. To learn more about VREP, please visit the California Air Resources Board’s website. To learn more about Green-e® certification, please visit green-e.org.
For comparison, the current average mix of resources supplying Peninsula Clean Energy includes: Coal (0%), Nuclear (0%), Oil (0%), Natural Gas (0%), Hydroelectric (49.9%), Eligible Renewable (50.1%), and Other (0%). This resource mix was prepared in accordance with the California Energy Commission Power Source Disclosure for 2024.
The average home in San Mateo County uses 389 kWh per month. This is based on a representative 12-month billing history for all customers on the E-TOU-C rate schedule for PG&E and Peninsula Clean Energy’s published rates as of March, 2025.
For specific information about this product, please contact Peninsula Clean Energy, 1-866-966-0110, [email protected], www.PenCleanEnergy.com.
Green Access is Green-e® Energy certified, and meets the environmental and consumer-protection standards set forth by the nonprofit Center for Resource Solutions. Learn more at www.green-e.org.
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