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rgds, Bart DeCanne
San Jose
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In 2021 SJCE introduced GreenValue as the lowest cost program competitive with PG&E rates and increased rates for GreenSource 8% above PG&E rates. However by default all customers who were before on GreenSource, which was the lowest-cost program until then, were kept on GreenSource, not moved to GreenValue, and thus saw their electric rates increase by 8%.
I had a months long email discussion with SJCE about this underhanded practice: if you’re on the lowest cost program before, you should have been kept on the lowest-cost program, not be moved to a more expensive program by default without explicit opt-in.
Eventually they moved me retroactively to GreenValue.
SJCE communicated to me via email during this exchange that only 2K households were on GreenValue. So the vast majority, except for the 20% or so that are on SJ Cares, pay a power rate for generation that is 8% HIGHER than PG&E’s, probably many of them without even realizing it!
I now see in the agenda of this meeting that GreenValue may be suspended.
So does it mean that SJCE will move GreenSource rates to the same as GreenValue to make it the same cost as PG&E?
Or does it mean that basically everyone will now pay more than if they would move for generation to PG&E?