Retail electricity price: commercial: California (Cents/kWh) - United States - EIA - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: US retail electricity prices (EIA)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In California, the retail electricity price for the commercial sector stood at 30.56 Cents/kWh in July 2026, versus 27.33 in the previous month. This represents a gain of 11.82 percent.
Sample. The monthly series shown in the figure has 439 data points. The series covers the time range stretching from January 1990 to July 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some simple statistics we computed on the whole sample: the retail electricity price reached its highest level of 30.56 Cents/kWh in July 2026; it hit a trough of 8.29 in March 1998; it averaged 14.18.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Cents/kWh |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 24.1000 |
| 2026-06-30 | 27.3300 |
| 2026-07-31 | 30.5600 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Retail electricity price for the commercial sector in California |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Price |
| Data type | Price |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Current prices |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | Cents/kWh |
| Source | U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) |
| Source type | Government agency |
| Data licence | Public domain |
| Other information | Not available |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LM1 |
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