Cooperative utility in California
Surprise Valley Electrification electricity rates, 2025
Surprise Valley Electrification's full-service residential customers paid an average of 13.5¢ per kWh in 2025, 56.9% less than the California average of 31.4¢ and 21.6% less than the 2025 U.S. average of 17.2¢ from the same EIA-861 survey. That was up 2.7% from 13.1¢ in 2024.
Surprise Valley Electrification is the 29th largest of the 30 California utilities listed, with under 0.1% of the state's residential customers.
Residential rate, 2025
13.5¢
per kWh, revenue divided by sales
Versus the California average
−56.9%
California 31.4¢ per kWh
Average monthly bill
$128
948 kWh a month
Residential customers
2,788
under 0.1% 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.
By customer class
Surprise Valley Electrification 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 | 13.5¢ |
| Commercial | 14.1¢ |
| Industrial | 12.3¢ |
One-year change, 2024 to 2025
+2.7%
13.1¢ per kWh in 2024
U.S. average, 2025 (EIA-861)
17.2¢
residential, per kWh; Surprise Valley Electrification's 13.5¢ was 21.6% less than it
Other California utilities
How Surprise Valley Electrification compares with California's other large utilities
Average residential rate in 2025 at the largest other California utilities. The full table lists all 30.
- Pacific Gas & Electric Co.Investor-owned, 1,738,444 customers37.5¢
- 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¢
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. 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.