Power Saver Rewards is the program that rewards you for being a bit more flexible with your smart thermostat schedule. As a participant, you help make the energy grid more reliable for everyone — and as a reward, you’ll get a $75 Virtual Prepaid Mastercard when you enroll, plus another $20 for each season you participate.

Here’s how it works: on very hot days, thousands of air conditioners running at once can put a strain on the grid, which can make it difficult and expensive to get power to everyone who needs it. On days when PG&E anticipates there will be a high demand for energy, Power Saver Rewards will schedule a Power Saver Event. This means we’ll shift some of your energy use out of the hours when lots of people are using their air conditioning. We’ll do this by working with your thermostat to keep your home comfortable all day, while being a bit more flexible about when we cool it.

By tweaking your thermostat schedule so your A/C uses less energy during the most high-demand hours, and coordinating your energy use with thousands of others’, we can help keep energy demand under control while keeping you comfortable.

What if I don’t have a smart thermostat?

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