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City of Santa Clara - (CA)

City of Santa Clara - (CA) served 54,000 residential customers in California in 2025 (0.4% of the state's residential customers), the 28th largest of 59 utilities reporting there. Bundled service; ownership: municipal; balancing authority CISO.

The meter, one average month.

Scroll to run 30 days of City of Santa Clara - (CA)'s average residential use through a five-dial register.

Day 30 of 30
Used so far
398 kWh
At 17.88¢/kWh
$71.17
An average 2025 month: 398 kWh at 17.88¢ comes to about $71.17, the average bill. Use is spread evenly over 30 days for the picture.

Price ruler0 to 50¢ per kWh

Where 17.88¢ sits.

City of Santa Clara - (CA) averaged 17.88¢ per kWh against a California residential average of 32.54¢: 45% below the state figure. Among the 19 municipal utilities in California with bundled residential sales, it ranks 3rd from the lowest price.

2020 and 2025EIA-861

Five years, same meter.

In 2020 the average City of Santa Clara - (CA) home used 444 kWh a month at 12.3¢ and paid $54.64. In 2025 it used 398 kWh at 17.88¢ and paid $71.17: the price per kWh is up 45.4%.

City of Santa Clara - (CA), California, residential averages, 2020 and 2025
Measure20202025
Price, ¢/kWh12.317.88
Use, kWh a month444398
Bill, US$ a month54.6471.17
City of Santa Clara - (CA) customers and sales by class in California, 2025, EIA-861 (bundled service)
ClassCustomersMWh sold¢/kWh
Residential54,000257,89817.88
Commercial7,150137,07922.8
Industrial1,2854,592,30715.97
Transportation181527.53

Who else is on the line

Homes are one class.

Homes took 5.2% of the electricity City of Santa Clara - (CA) sold in California in 2025.

Rooftop solar on its linesnet metering

1,233 roofs.

Residential net-metered PV
1,233installations reported for 2025
Capacity
6.8 MWresidential, net metered
Per 1,000 homes
22.8installations per 1,000 residential customers

Service territoryEIA-861

1 counties.

Santa Clara

Counties in California where City of Santa Clara - (CA) reported serving customers in 2025 (1 in all; up to 24 listed).

EIA-8612025Utility 16655

The filing, line by line.

City of Santa Clara - (CA), California, residential class, 2025. Price basis: revenue divided by kWh sold, all residential customers.
MeasureValueUnit
Average price17.88¢/kWh
California average price32.54¢/kWh
Difference from state average-45.0%
Price change over 5 years45.4%
Typical monthly use398kWh
Typical monthly bill71.17US$
Residential customers54,000accounts
Share of CA residential customers0.4%
Size rank in CA28 of 59by customers
Price rank, municipal peers3 of 191 = lowest

Rate plans on fileOpenEI URDB

None shown for this page. Plan counts appear once per utility, on its largest state's bundled page; how plans are counted.

California: state average, five-year steps and every provider

Read this first

  • Class-wide averages, not a quote or a bill for any one customer.
  • Plan data comes from a public, crowd-maintained database and can be out of date.
  • All prices on this site are in cents per kWh unless marked otherwise. Bills are US dollars per month.

Credits and notices

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