Retail electricity price: transportation: 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 transportation sector was 18.42 Cents/kWh in July 2026, versus 18.05 in June. This constitutes an increase of 2.05 percent.
Sample. There are 199 records in the monthly series presented in the figure above. The time range covered by the series goes from January 2010 to July 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few summary statistics calculated on the whole sample: the retail electricity price achieved a maximum of 18.77 Cents/kWh in September 2025; it recorded a bottom of 6.54 in May 2012; it averaged 10.75.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Cents/kWh |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 17.5100 |
| 2026-06-30 | 18.0500 |
| 2026-07-31 | 18.4200 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Retail electricity price for the transportation 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 | Transportation sector state-level data begin in January 2010. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LM1 |
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