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 was 30.56 Cents/kWh in July 2026, compared to 27.33 in June. This constitutes a rise of 11.82 percent.
Sample. There are 439 observations overall in the monthly time series displayed in the graph above. The period covered by the series stretches from January 1990 to July 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some simple statistics we computed on the entire sample: the retail electricity price averaged 14.18 Cents/kWh; it achieved a maximum of 30.56 in July 2026; it reached its lowest level of 8.29 in March 1998.
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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