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Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. served 3,317,112 residential customers in California in 2025 (23.1% of the state's residential customers), the 1st largest of 59 utilities reporting there. Delivery-only service; ownership: investor owned; balancing authority CISO.
The meter, one average month.
Scroll to run 30 days of Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s average residential use through a five-dial register.
- Used so far
- 375 kWh
- At 24.6¢/kWh
- $92.25
Price ruler0 to 50¢ per kWh
Where 24.6¢ sits.
This page covers delivery-only service, which is only part of a household's bill, so its 24.6¢ is not compared with the California bundled average of 32.54¢. Both are drawn for scale only.
2020 and 2025EIA-861
Five years, same meter.
In 2020 the average Pacific Gas & Electric Co. home used 446 kWh a month at 15.76¢ and paid $70.27. In 2025 it used 375 kWh at 24.6¢ and paid $92.25: the price per kWh is up 56.1%.
| Measure | 2020 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Price, ¢/kWh | 15.76 | 24.6 |
| Use, kWh a month | 446 | 375 |
| Bill, US$ a month | 70.27 | 92.25 |
| Class | Customers | MWh sold | ¢/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 3,317,112 | 14,924,071 | 24.6 |
| Commercial | 381,577 | 20,681,940 | 20.93 |
| Industrial | 20,961 | 11,602,456 | 12.47 |
| Transportation | 1 | 362,772 | 4.55 |
Who else is on the line
Homes are one class.
Homes took 31.4% of the electricity Pacific Gas & Electric Co. sold in California in 2025.
Rooftop solar on its linesnet metering
924,854 roofs.
- Residential net-metered PV
- 924,854installations reported for 2025
- Capacity
- 5948.3 MWresidential, net metered
- Per 1,000 homes
- 278.8installations per 1,000 residential customers
Service territoryEIA-861
50 counties.
AlamedaAlpineAmadorButteCalaverasColusaContra CostaEl DoradoFresnoGlennHumboldtKernKingsLakeLassenMaderaMarinMariposaMendocinoMercedModocMontereyNapaNevada
Counties in California where Pacific Gas & Electric Co. reported serving customers in 2025 (50 in all; up to 24 listed).
EIA-8612025Utility 14328
The filing, line by line.
| Measure | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Average price | 24.6 | ¢/kWh |
| California average price | 32.54 | ¢/kWh |
| Price change over 5 years | 56.1 | % |
| Typical monthly use | 375 | kWh |
| Typical monthly bill | 92.25 | US$ |
| Residential customers | 3,317,112 | accounts |
| Share of CA residential customers | 23.1 | % |
| Size rank in CA | 1 of 59 | by customers |
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