The PG&E Corporation Yard occupies a large area of land along 2nd Street; this parcel of high voltage lines pictured above backs up to the L and 2nd Garden on the east and is held by the train tracks to the south.
| Location |
| Customer Service Center: |
| 202 Cousteau Place, accessible on 2nd (or on foot from 5th) |
| Also see the PG&E Corporation Yard |
| Hours |
| Mon-Fri 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
| Phone |
| (800)743-5000 |
| Website |
![[WWW]](http://wikispot.org/wiki/eggheadbeta/img/sycamore-www.png){kind=small} pge.com |
This is the local office for Pacific Gas & Electric, the fine people who bring you your energy through pipes and wires. In April 2005, the Yolo County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to begin the annexation process to have SMUD (Sacramento Municipal Utility District) provide electricity to Davis, Woodland, West Sacramento and unincorporated areas of the county instead of PG&E. The SMUD board of directors voted May 19, 2005 on whether to annex this area into its electricity service. SMUD rate-payers and rate-payers in Yolo County voted down an annexation proposal in 2006 that would have extended SMUD's territory to include Davis, Woodland, West Sacramento and the area between the cities.
Baseline PG&E rates in September, 2009:
Natural gas (methane): $0.96476/therm ($.032927/kWh or 109.333MJ/$)
Electricity: $0.11531/kWh ($31.220MJ/$)
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This is the reason to heat with gas instead of electricity; electricity costs 3.5 times as much as gas.
Rough energy calculations:
It'll cost you approx. 1 cent to burn up a cubic foot of gas, but you get 1 megajoule of energy when you do so. 1 MJ (megajoule) is 1 million watts for one second. This is a good deal, considering it'll cost you 3.5 cents to get that same megajoule in electricity. PG&E uses the US therm (different than the European Union's value, of course) for gas energy, it's equal to 105.4804 megajoules (approx. 29.3kWh). For reference, a gallon of gasoline yields 135 MJ; at $3.00/gallon that's 45 MJ/$.
You used to be able to pay your PG&E bill at Ace Hardware (the southern "housewares" building) until 6 pm daily. As of 2006 this is no longer the case.
Comments & Updates
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2005-05-17 17:45:16 Davis residents would stand to benifit with a transition from PG&E to SMUD. SMUD is publically owned and managed with an elected board and they have more investment in renewable energy sources. —MikeSiminitus
2005-08-30 13:28:52 there is a way to get subsidized service from PG&E, not sure how exactly, but notice of it came on my bill. Worth checking out, however. —IrenePark
2005-10-05 09:17:37 The program is called CARE and it will knock 20% off you bill if you meet the income criteria, which, if you are a student and only work part time, shouldn't be hard. —RogerClark
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A few of my friends thought that they could use this until I told them that they cannot be claimed as dependents. —hankim
2006-07-23 19:43:56 Is there a way to find out information about power outages in Davis? (besides having the unfortunate experience of having a power outage) —DannyYeung
2008-03-13 14:44:42 I would like to know if anyone else is getting suspicious charges on their PG&E bills—our gas usage bill mysteriously more than quadrupled even though we didn't change our usage at all. I know gas prices increase this year and baseline gas prices increase during the winter, but it probably shouldn't jump up $80 when usage (without running the heater, btw) remained the same...
Please start a dialog if you've had the same problem...there could be something fishy here, since it wouldn't be the first time PG&E hasn't been completely honest... —Julianna
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It could just be that the meter reader read something incorrectly. It is pretty common and usually fixed with a quick phone call. What did they say when you contacted them? —JabberWokky
2008-11-05 19:41:32 The perfect example of why a monopoly is horrible for customers. Horrible F*$(#$#king customer service, terrible accounting practices. Strongarm tactics to force customers to settle or face shutoff. Impossible to reach real people at times who can actually answer anything. After the gas shut off in South Davis they forget to actually turn my back on. Today I call and they tell me sure they will come "Sometime" today. I leave work at 12:30 per PG&E's advice and now at 7:39 I finally get a call saying they will be here to turn the gas on after they shut if off. I have more to tell but its impossible to condense into a short story, but basically when SMUD comes back on the ballot I encourage all to vote for the opportunity to have competition in our electric and gas provider as PG&E has F%$#(ked me so bad over the years. Waste hours of my day because they can't narrow down an appointment only for them to show up 20 minutes to 8pm. They can't narrow down appointments to better than an 8 hour window??? give me a break.. Who else could stay in business with this type of service model??? —loneshark
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California Civil Code 1722 requires them to give you a four hour window, and provides for damages (not to exceed $600) if they fail to show in that window. That only governs new contracts. Service restorations have different rules, but they should still honor a four hour appointment. Here is PG&E's service guarantee. —DavidGrundler
2009-01-08 21:30:19 Re:Julianna, I too had a HUGE bill last month and another this month. For the month of October, my bill was $275 when it should have been around $50(I live in a small apartment with no washer/dryer)and had barely used any appliances that month. l called PG and E and the girl on the phone asked me if I had "had any parties or guests", as if that would account for the $275 bill. After an hour and a half of not getting anywhere with her, I decided to go in and talk to an actual person who might be able to help me. The man at the PG and E office I dealt with was pleasant enough, but the woman who also "helped" me was not. She again tried to make it seem like my bill was normal, but told me they'd look into it. I later received a bill for $90. I paid that (even though it was still too high) only to find that my next bill was for close to $400!! I went in again, and as I explained that my bill could in no way shape or form be correct, she actually rolled her eyes at me. I am still dealing with this mess. Something's going on here for sure. —dgirl
2009-08-12 16:20:08 PG&E has horrible business practices, they overcharge, and they will lie to their customers in order to get a little bit of money. If SMUD comes back on the ballot, I am voting for them. There needs to be some competition in Davis, same goes for Comcast. —IdealParadigm
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If it ever makes it back to the ballot it wouldn't introduce competition, it would switch from a for profit utility to a publicly owned utility. So it wouldn't introduce competition, but it would take the profit motive out of the mix. —JasonAller
