Retail electricity price: residential: 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 residential sector was 33.61 Cents/kWh in July 2026, versus 34.74 in the previous month. This constitutes a decrease of 3.25 percent.
Sample. In this monthly series, there are a total of 439 data points. The series covers the time period extending from January 1990 to July 2026.
History. Take a look at a few simple statistics we calculated on the entire sample: the retail electricity price reached its minimum of 9.68 Cents/kWh in April 1990; it reached its highest level of 35.25 in April 2026; it had a mean of 16.12.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Cents/kWh |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 33.2500 |
| 2026-06-30 | 34.7400 |
| 2026-07-31 | 33.6100 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Retail electricity price for the residential 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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