Investor-owned utility in California
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. electricity rates, 2025
Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s full-service residential customers paid an average of 37.5¢ per kWh in 2025, 19.7% more than the California average of 31.4¢ and 117.8% more than the 2025 U.S. average of 17.2¢ from the same EIA-861 survey. That was down 5.3% from 39.6¢ in 2024.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. is the largest of the 30 California utilities listed, with 35.6% of the state's residential customers.
Residential rate, 2025
37.5¢
per kWh, revenue divided by sales
Versus the California average
+19.7%
California 31.4¢ per kWh
Average monthly bill
$174
464 kWh a month
Residential customers
1,738,444
full service; 35.6% of California's homes
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Form EIA-861 annual survey, Sales to Ultimate Customers, 2025. Averages over the year for full-service residential customers.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. also delivers power to 3,317,112 homes that buy their supply from a retail supplier. Those homes pay Pacific Gas & Electric Co. for delivery only, and their supply price depends on the supplier's plan, so they are not in the figures above; the share of the state counts them.
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By customer class
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. average rates by customer class, 2025
Revenue divided by sales for each class of full-service customer, beside the residential rate's one-year change and the U.S. average from the same survey.
| Customer class | ¢ per kWh, 2025 |
|---|---|
| Residential | 37.5¢ |
| Commercial | 38.4¢ |
| Industrial | 32.5¢ |
One-year change, 2024 to 2025
−5.3%
39.6¢ per kWh in 2024
U.S. average, 2025 (EIA-861)
17.2¢
residential, per kWh; Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s 37.5¢ was 117.8% more than it
Other California utilities
How Pacific Gas & Electric Co. compares with California's other large utilities
Average residential rate in 2025 at the largest other California utilities. The full table lists all 30.
- Southern California Edison CoInvestor-owned, 3,262,177 customers31.5¢
- Los Angeles Department of Water & PowerMunicipal, 1,415,602 customers26.5¢
- San Diego Gas & Electric CoInvestor-owned, 284,416 customers45.8¢
- Sacramento Municipal Utility DistrictPublic power district, 601,275 customers18.9¢
- Imperial Irrigation DistrictPublic power district, 142,916 customers18.7¢
- City of AnaheimMunicipal, 107,148 customers19.4¢
Method
Where this comes 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.