Retail electricity price: industrial: 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 industrial sector was 25.11 Cents/kWh in July 2026, compared to 20.74 in June. This constitutes a rise of 21.07 percent.
Sample. There are 439 observations overall in the monthly series shown in the graph above. The time span covered by the series is from January 1990 to July 2026.
History. Here are a few simple statistics calculated on the whole sample: the retail electricity price had a mean of 10.95 Cents/kWh; it reached a trough of 5.45 in December 1997; it peaked at 25.53 in July 2024.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Cents/kWh |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 20.2000 |
| 2026-06-30 | 20.7400 |
| 2026-07-31 | 25.1100 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Retail electricity price for the industrial 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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