You can easily switch your RCEA electricity service plan to find the best option for you. Use our online form below to change your plan or contact us. We are happy to help!
Service Plan Options
Using the form below, you can make the following changes to your service plan:
| Upgrade to REpower+ | Upgrade your service plan to 100% renewable and carbon-free energy with RCEA’s REpower+ for only a penny more per kilowatt hour! |
| Switch to REpower | Current REpower+ customers may use this option to switch back to our standard REpower service. |
| Return to RCEA | Return to RCEA service if you previously opted out. You must wait at least 12 months to return to RCEA after opting out due to regulations. Welcome back! |
| Choose PG&E | Opt out of RCEA service entirely and opt into PG&E’s generation service. |
Service Plan Management Form
Use the forms below to manage your service plan online. If you need assistance, please contact us and we’d be happy to help!
Use the form below to upgrade to 100% renewable and carbon-free REpower+ service or switch to our standard REpower plan if you’re already enrolled in REpower+.
Visit our REpower+ page to learn more about our 100% renewable option.
Compare rates between RCEA and PG&E electricity service.
We support your right to choose where you receive your energy, but we are sorry to see you go! Before we finalize your enrollment with PG&E, please read the following information.
RCEA is Not a Duplicate Charge
The RCEA generation charges on your PG&E bill are not an additional cost. If you opt into PG&E bundled service, you will pay PG&E for generation instead of RCEA.
RCEA provides generation services instead of PG&E in Humboldt County. On your bill, the separation between these charges is shown on the PG&E Delivery Charges Page and the RCEA Generation Charges page.
For a breakdown of a sample PG&E bill, see our Understanding your PG&E Bill page, or contact us and we’d be happy to help!
RCEA’s Rates are Lower than PG&E’s
Based on board guidelines, RCEA rates are set at half a percent lower than PG&E’s. Still having trouble affording your electricity? RCEA offers almost all of the same financial assistance programs as PG&E. Check out our Rate Discounts & Assistance page for more information or contact us for help.
90% of Energy Users in Humboldt County Choose to Get Their Electricity from Redwood Coast Energy Authority
RCEA is a local company, and our office is located in downtown Eureka. We are a not-for-profit company–we invest all revenue into the local community instead of splitting profits with shareholders. We help fund new local renewable energy sources as well as programs and rebates for RCEA customers.
Use the form below to choose PG&E generation service and opt out of RCEA generation service.
Compare rates between RCEA and PG&E electricity service.
Are You on the Right Rate?
Make sure your rate plan is right for you using the PG&E Rate Analysis Tool (requires a PG&E online account). To change your rate plan, contact PG&E. You will still receive your electricity generation service from RCEA at a slightly lower rate. See Rate Comparison Tool for details.
FAQs
Visit our Energy Sources page to see our Power Mix, or where we source the electricity we use to power Humboldt County, and more!
As decided by our Board of Directors, RCEA’s rates are set lower than PG&E’s. To see how much you would pay PG&E for their generation service, see the “Generation Credit” line on the delivery page of your PG&E bill. Learn more about your bill on our Understanding Your PG&E Bill page.
Historically, investor-owned utilities like PG&E were the default service provider for customers in their jurisdictions. However, state legislators passed California’s Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) law in 2002, transferring this default status from investor-owned utilities to the local community choice aggregator (CCA), also known as community choice energy (CCE), wherever available. RCEA is the CCE provider for Humboldt County.
If you are opting out of Redwood Coast Energy Authority (RCEA) service sixty (60) days after you are enrolled or later, you will be subject to PG&E’s terms and conditions of service, including not having the option to return to RCEA for one year.
RCEA requires that customers use one of the following options for returning to PG&E generation service:
This option is an immediate transfer to PG&E service on your next meter read. At that time, RCEA will stop billing you for electric generation and PG&E will begin doing so. Please note that the billing cycle must complete before the opt out is processed. Depending on the timing of your opt out and meter read dates, RCEA may appear on one more bill after you opt out.
For the first 6 months with PG&E, you will be billed at a transitional rate. This rate is based on the current energy market and can change over the 6-month period. Once that 6-month period is over, PG&E will return you to a standard bundled rate.
For more information on PG&E’s transitional rate, please contact PG&E at 1-866-743-0335 or visit http://www.pge.com/tariffs/tbcc.
If you don’t want to be charged this transitional rate, you may prefer Option 2.
By selecting this option, you will not have to pay the transitional rates described in Option 1. If you choose Option 2, you will remain on Redwood Coast Energy Authority service for the next six billing months (plus five business days to process this request). After six months, Redwood Coast Energy Authority generation charges will be replaced by PG&E’s standard generation rates automatically. By providing six months’ advance notice to PG&E that you intend to return to their service, you may be excluded from the transitional rates described above.
Yes! However, if you’ve used RCEA service for 60 days or more and then switch to PG&E, state law dictates that you must remain with PG&E for at least one year before you have the option to return back to RCEA, even if RCEA costs less than PG&E.
No. There is no charge to leave RCEA and choose PG&E generation service.