Final-user natural gas price: electric power: California (USD/thousand cubic feet) - United States - EIA - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: Final-user gas prices (US)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In California, the average price of natural gas delivered to electric power plants was 3.60 USD per thousand cubic feet in July 2026, compared to 3.21 in June. This marks a gain of 12.15 percent.
Sample. There are 282 observations in the monthly time series shown in the plot above. The series covers the time range stretching from January 2002 to July 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few simple statistics calculated on the whole sample: the average price of natural gas delivered to electric power plants was equal on average to 5.23 USD per thousand cubic feet; it reached a trough of 2.43 USD per thousand cubic feet in April 2016; it recorded its maximum of 28.68 USD per thousand cubic feet in December 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/thousand cubic feet |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 2.64000 |
| 2026-06-30 | 3.21000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 3.60000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Average price of natural gas delivered to electric power plants 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 | USD/thousand cubic feet |
| 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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