Retail electricity price: residential: 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 residential sector stood at 33.61 Cents/kWh in July 2026, compared to 34.74 in June. This marks a reduction of 3.25 percent.
Sample. There are 439 records in the monthly series displayed in the chart above. The series covers the time period extending from January 1990 to July 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some descriptive statistics calculated on the whole sample: the retail electricity price reached a trough of 9.68 Cents/kWh in April 1990; it hit a peak of 35.25 in April 2026; it had a mean value of 16.12.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Cents/kWh |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 33.2500 |
| 2026-06-30 | 34.7400 |
| 2026-07-31 | 33.6100 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Retail electricity price for the residential 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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