Whenever you rent a home, you may be asked to call PG and E if they are your provider to set up an account and associate your address with your name.

Once the account is set up, you would be getting a mail to login into the account.

From here on you should be able to get your bills and pay them online.

You can download a pdf of your bill which explains the charges.

You can get to see different metrics online.

Energy usage details

Energy costs

See that it denotes tier costs too between peak and non-peak times.

Energy usage between efficient, your and other similar homes

You can make use of this data and minimize its usage as and when deemed necessary.