Utility rates

California electric utilities and their average rates, 2025

Name: California electric utilities and their average rates, 2025
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The average residential electricity rate charged by each California utility in 2025: its residential revenue divided by its residential kWh sales, from the U.S. Energy Information Administration's annual Form EIA-861 survey of every electric utility.

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. serves the most homes, 35.6% of California's residential customers, at an average of 37.5¢ per kWh. Across the 30 utilities listed, rates ran from 13.5¢ at Surprise Valley Electrification to 45.8¢ at San Diego Gas & Electric Co; 6 charged more than the California average of 31.4¢ and 24 less.

Source: U.S. EIA, Form EIA-861
Data year: 2025, against 2024
Data refreshed: November 9, 2026
Utilities listed: 30

Ranked table

California utilities by homes served, 2025

Largest first by homes served (full-service customers plus the homes each utility delivers to for a retail supplier). Select a column heading to sort, or a utility for its page. "vs. state" compares each rate with the California average of 31.4¢ per kWh; the one-year change is against 2024.


Pacific Gas & Electric Co.Investor-owned, 1,738,444 customers	Investor-owned	37.5¢	+19.7%	−5.3%	$174	1,738,444	35.6%
Southern California Edison CoInvestor-owned, 3,262,177 customers	Investor-owned	31.5¢	+0.4%	−2.9%	$149	3,262,177	32.6%
Los Angeles Department of Water & PowerMunicipal, 1,415,602 customers	Municipal	26.5¢	−15.5%	+11.1%	$124	1,415,602	10.0%
San Diego Gas & Electric CoInvestor-owned, 284,416 customers	Investor-owned	45.8¢	+46.0%	+4.9%	$168	284,416	9.7%
Sacramento Municipal Utility DistrictPublic power district, 601,275 customers	Public power district	18.9¢	−39.6%	+5.9%	$125	601,275	4.2%
Imperial Irrigation DistrictPublic power district, 142,916 customers	Public power district	18.7¢	−40.4%	+4.4%	$202	142,916	1.0%
City of AnaheimMunicipal, 107,148 customers	Municipal	19.4¢	−38.2%	+13.2%	$92	107,148	0.8%
Modesto Irrigation DistrictPublic power district, 104,671 customers	Public power district	23.0¢	−26.5%	+5.7%	$173	104,671	0.7%
City of RiversideMunicipal, 101,042 customers	Municipal	21.9¢	−30.0%	+8.6%	$135	101,042	0.7%
Turlock Irrigation DistrictPublic power district, 80,976 customers	Public power district	17.4¢	−44.5%	+6.5%	$142	80,976	0.6%
City of GlendaleMunicipal, 78,071 customers	Municipal	35.5¢	+13.3%	+5.0%	$139	78,071	0.5%
City of RosevilleMunicipal, 64,556 customers	Municipal	21.3¢	−32.1%	+14.1%	$145	64,556	0.5%
City of PasadenaMunicipal, 58,602 customers	Municipal	25.1¢	−19.9%	−3.3%	$116	58,602	0.4%
City of Santa ClaraMunicipal, 54,000 customers	Municipal	17.9¢	−43.0%	+5.9%	$71	54,000	0.4%
City of Burbank Water and PowerMunicipal, 46,719 customers	Municipal	21.5¢	−31.4%	+11.7%	$106	46,719	0.3%
Liberty UtilitiesInvestor-owned, 44,507 customers	Investor-owned	27.6¢	−11.8%	+6.7%	$141	44,507	0.3%
City of ReddingMunicipal, 39,152 customers	Municipal	19.0¢	−39.5%	+6.3%	$152	39,152	0.3%
PacifiCorpInvestor-owned, 36,339 customers	Investor-owned	24.2¢	−22.9%	+17.2%	$200	36,339	0.3%
Alameda Municipal PowerMunicipal, 32,364 customers	Municipal	24.0¢	−23.4%	+4.5%	$87	32,364	0.2%
City of Palo AltoMunicipal, 25,672 customers	Municipal	21.4¢	−31.9%	+3.3%	$110	25,672	0.2%
City of LodiMunicipal, 24,215 customers	Municipal	22.8¢	−27.3%	+1.4%	$128	24,215	0.2%
Bear Valley Electric ServiceInvestor-owned, 23,395 customers	Investor-owned	41.1¢	+31.2%	+34.1%	$122	23,395	0.2%
City of ColtonMunicipal, 17,367 customers	Municipal	23.0¢	−26.6%	−7.4%	$119	17,367	0.1%
City of AzusaMunicipal, 15,646 customers	Municipal	20.8¢	−33.7%	+8.9%	$104	15,646	0.1%
Merced Irrigation DistrictPublic power district, 11,850 customers	Public power district	24.1¢	−23.0%	−0.4%	$144	11,850	0.1%
City of Moreno ValleyMunicipal, 7,952 customers	Municipal	40.6¢	+29.5%	+1.8%	$188	7,952	0.1%
City of Shasta LakeMunicipal, 4,278 customers	Municipal	22.9¢	−26.9%	+19.0%	$180	4,278	under 0.1%
City & County of San FranciscoMunicipal, 3,670 customers	Municipal	27.1¢	−13.5%	+12.8%	$295	3,670	under 0.1%
Surprise Valley ElectrificationCooperative, 2,788 customers	Cooperative	13.5¢	−56.9%	+2.7%	$128	2,788	under 0.1%
City of CoronaMunicipal, 1,305 customers	Municipal	15.8¢	−49.7%	+1.7%	$84	1,305	under 0.1%
California average13,731,788 customers	All utilities	31.4¢			$162	13,731,788

Large one-year moves can reflect how a utility reported to EIA, not a price change.

Rates, bills and customers count full-service customers only. Share of the state also counts the homes each utility delivers to for a retail supplier.

Utilities that file EIA's short form (Form EIA-861S), which has no residential split, are not listed.

Data: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Form EIA-861ElectricRates.org

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Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Form EIA-861 annual survey, Sales to Ultimate Customers, 2025. The rate is revenue divided by sales, so it reflects what each utility actually billed its residential customers over the year, all charges included.

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Compared with the state

Average residential rate at California's ten largest utilities, 2025

Each bar is a utility's average residential rate for 2025; the dashed line is the California average. Red bars are above it, green bars below.

Average residential rate at California's ten largest utilities, 2025

Data: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Form EIA-861ElectricRates.org

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Method

Where these figures come from

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, Sales to Ultimate Customers, 2025 (and 2024 for the one-year change). File: f8612025.zip.
How the figures are computed: Average rate is a utility's residential revenue divided by its residential kWh sales for the year. Average bill is revenue per customer divided by twelve; monthly use is kWh sales per customer divided by twelve.
Which customers count: Full-service customers only: those who buy both supply and delivery from the company, so the rate includes both. Homes that buy supply from a retail supplier pay the utility for delivery only; EIA reports their delivery charges separately and they are not in the rate. Listed: companies with at least 1,000 full-service residential customers in California. EIA's adjustment rows and rooftop solar owners count toward the California average but are not listed.
State average: All California residential revenue divided by all residential sales in the same survey, summed the way EIA sums a state total. Data refreshed November 9, 2026.