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, versus 3.21 in the previous month. This constitutes an increase of 12.15 percent.
Sample. This monthly series has 282 observations overall. The time range covered by the series is from January 2002 to July 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some summary statistics computed on the whole sample: the average price of natural gas delivered to electric power plants had a mean value of 5.23 USD per thousand cubic feet; it reached its lowest level of 2.43 USD per thousand cubic feet in April 2016; it peaked at 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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