Retail electricity sales: residential: California (MWh) - 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 sales in the residential sector were 8,479,788 MWh in July 2026, compared to 6,916,528 in June 2026. This constitutes a rise of 22.6 percent.
Sample. The monthly time series shown in the graph has 439 records overall. The time period covered by the series is from January 1990 to July 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few summary statistics calculated on the full sample: the retail electricity sales recorded a maximum of 12,226,964 MWh in August 2018; they reached a minimum of 4,626,841 in May 1991; they had an average value of 6,851,240.
Latest values
| Date | Value - MWh |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 5,763,735 |
| 2026-06-30 | 6,916,528 |
| 2026-07-31 | 8,479,788 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Retail electricity sales for the residential sector in California |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Flow |
| Data type | Quantity |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | MWh |
| 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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