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PG&E Peak Day Pricing and SmartRate Event Days

The days PG&E called a Peak Day Pricing or SmartRate event, when enrolled customers pay more for power in the event hours.

PG&ELoad dataCAISO market
Query with the agent
Native record
program x event_date
daily publication cadence
Evidence
Observed market data
Published observations from the named source
Time basis
Point-in-time records
UTC · event_time

Overview

`event_date` is a Pacific calendar date. PG&E calls them on the days it expects the most strain on the grid, so they mark hot, tight days in its territory. Read with FINAL.

Query contract

Preserve one canonical row per (program, event_date) before aggregating.

Analysis rules

  • Group only after preserving the declared grain: program, event_date.

Access

Query from your own tools

Use the guarded HTTP endpoint directly, or connect an MCP client and load the dataset contract with describe_data before calling query_data.

CAISO MCP API reference
HTTP endpoint
POST /api/v1/datasets/pge_event_days/query

Schema7

Column
Type
event_timeDateTime64(6, 'UTC')
observed_atNullable(DateTime64(6, 'UTC'))
programLowCardinality(String)
event_dateDate32
weekdayLowCardinality(Nullable(String))
source_urlNullable(String)
ingested_atDateTime64(6, 'UTC')

Sample data

event_timeobserved_atprogramevent_dateweekdaysource_urlingested_at
2026-09-24 00:00:00.0000002026-09-26 01:15:58.222459peak_day_pricing2026-09-24Thursdayhttps://www.pge.com/en/account/rate-plans/peak-day-pricing.html2026-09-26 01:16:00.454039
2026-09-24 00:00:00.0000002026-09-26 01:15:58.222459smartrate2026-09-24Thursdayhttps://www.pge.com/en/account/rate-plans/smartrate.html2026-09-26 01:16:00.454039
2026-09-10 00:00:00.0000002026-09-26 01:15:58.222459peak_day_pricing2026-09-10Thursdayhttps://www.pge.com/en/account/rate-plans/peak-day-pricing.html2026-09-26 01:16:00.454039
2026-09-10 00:00:00.0000002026-09-26 01:15:58.222459smartrate2026-09-10Thursdayhttps://www.pge.com/en/account/rate-plans/smartrate.html2026-09-26 01:16:00.454039
2026-09-09 00:00:00.0000002026-09-26 01:15:58.222459peak_day_pricing2026-09-09Wednesdayhttps://www.pge.com/en/account/rate-plans/peak-day-pricing.html2026-09-26 01:16:00.454039
2026-09-09 00:00:00.0000002026-09-26 01:15:58.222459smartrate2026-09-09Wednesdayhttps://www.pge.com/en/account/rate-plans/smartrate.html2026-09-26 01:16:00.454039
2026-08-27 00:00:00.0000002026-09-26 01:15:58.222459peak_day_pricing2026-08-27Thursdayhttps://www.pge.com/en/account/rate-plans/peak-day-pricing.html2026-09-26 01:16:00.454039
2026-08-27 00:00:00.0000002026-09-26 01:15:58.222459smartrate2026-08-27Thursdayhttps://www.pge.com/en/account/rate-plans/smartrate.html2026-09-26 01:16:00.454039
2026-08-26 00:00:00.0000002026-09-26 01:15:58.222459peak_day_pricing2026-08-26Wednesdayhttps://www.pge.com/en/account/rate-plans/peak-day-pricing.html2026-09-26 01:16:00.454039
2026-08-26 00:00:00.0000002026-09-26 01:15:58.222459smartrate2026-08-26Wednesdayhttps://www.pge.com/en/account/rate-plans/smartrate.html2026-09-26 01:16:00.454039

Coverage

3.2% complete5,394 gap days181 days with data
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Coverage: 3.2%Days with data: 181Gaps: 5,394
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