An Energy Central explainer • Based on public 10-K filings

Where does your power bill actually go?

Pick your utility and enter your monthly bill. We'll estimate how many dollars and cents flow to each line item — fuel, maintenance, executive pay, shareholder profit, and more.

Northern & Central California

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Your $150.00 monthly broken down

PG&E Corporation
Total$150.00
  • Generation
    $22.3514.9%
  • Delivery & Operations
    $70.9947.3%
  • Capital & Financing
    $42.0828.1%
  • Taxes
    -$1.68-1.1%
  • Profit
    $16.2610.8%

Hot-button spotlights

Executive pay

$0.19of your $150.00 monthly bill

12.8¢ per $100 of revenue • $32,000,000.00 total for 5 NEOs in FY2024

Patricia K. Poppe received $15,820,000.00 as CEO. CEO Patti Poppe's $15.8M is the largest single package; the five NEOs together totaled roughly $32M in FY2024.

Note: this pay is already inside the "Operations & maintenance" line above — not on top of it.

2025 DEF 14A proxy, Summary Compensation Table →

Data centers

~$4.74of your $150.00 monthly bill

Estimated by applying the ~3.5% data-center load share to the cost-to-serve portion of your bill (Generation + Delivery + Capital).

About 3–4% of PG&E's electric load today, growing fast

PG&E says it has 5.5+ GW of data center demand in its interconnection queue. Today data centers are a small share of load, but the company is filing a new 'Rule 30' tariff so DCs cover their own infrastructure costs. PG&E's public position: every 1 GW of new DC load could lower other customers' bills by 1–2%.

Note: data centers pay their own metered usage, but the capacity, transmission, and generation buildout to serve them is recovered from the whole rate base.

Source: PG&E investor release, May 2025