Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. is investor owned serving 1,856,780 residential customers in California, at an average residential price of 39.62¢ per kilowatt-hour.
That price is derived, and it is annual. It is total residential revenue divided by total residential sales in EIA’s 2024 survey — not a tariff, and not this month’s rate. For what a kilowatt-hour costs in California right now, see the state page, currently 34.74¢.
What it reported, by service
| Service | Residential customers | Residential | Commercial |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bundled | 1,856,780 | 39.62¢ | 39.46¢ |
| Delivery | 3,190,681 | 25.76¢ | 20.46¢ |
A utility can file bundled service and delivery-only service separately. A delivery-only price excludes the energy itself, so the two are not comparable and are not ranked against each other.
How often the power goes out
| Minutes without power per customer, 2024 | 509.3 minutes (SAIDI, including major event days) |
|---|---|
| Interruptions per customer | 2.15 (SAIFI) |
| Excluding major event days | 275.6 minutes the figure utilities are benchmarked on |
| Reported under | IEEE standard |
The headline figure includes major event days, because a customer who lost power for three days in a storm lost power for three days. See how this compares nationally.
Counties served
Alameda, Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Contra Costa, El Dorado, Fresno, Glenn, Humboldt, Kern, Kings, Lake, Lassen, Madera, Marin, Mariposa, Mendocino, Merced, Modoc, Monterey, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, San Benito, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Solano, Sonoma, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Tulare, Tuolumne, Yolo, Yuba.
From EIA’s 2024 service-territory report. More than one utility can serve a county.
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Source: EIA-861 annual electric utility survey, data year 2024. Public domain. This page is a record of what Pacific Gas & Electric Co. reported to EIA; it is not an endorsement, and nothing here is a quote. Corrections and removal requests.