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Pioneer Community Energy
Pioneer Community Energy served 145,198 residential customers in California in 2025 (1.0% of the state's residential customers), the 18th largest of 59 utilities reporting there. Energy-only service; ownership: community choice aggregator; balancing authority CISO.
The meter, one average month.
Scroll to run 30 days of Pioneer Community Energy's average residential use through a five-dial register.
- Used so far
- 518 kWh
- At 13.88¢/kWh
- $71.88
Price ruler0 to 50¢ per kWh
Where 13.88¢ sits.
This page covers energy-only service, which is only part of a household's bill, so its 13.88¢ 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 Pioneer Community Energy home used 691 kWh a month at 7.73¢ and paid $53.41. In 2025 it used 518 kWh at 13.88¢ and paid $71.88: the price per kWh is up 79.6%.
| Measure | 2020 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Price, ¢/kWh | 7.73 | 13.88 |
| Use, kWh a month | 691 | 518 |
| Bill, US$ a month | 53.41 | 71.88 |
| Class | Customers | MWh sold | ¢/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 145,198 | 902,055 | 13.88 |
| Commercial | 20,447 | 590,732 | 13.56 |
| Industrial | 620 | 133,670 | 11.51 |
Who else is on the line
Homes are one class.
EIA-8612025Utility 61431
The filing, line by line.
| Measure | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Average price | 13.88 | ¢/kWh |
| California average price | 32.54 | ¢/kWh |
| Price change over 5 years | 79.6 | % |
| Typical monthly use | 518 | kWh |
| Typical monthly bill | 71.88 | US$ |
| Residential customers | 145,198 | accounts |
| Share of CA residential customers | 1.0 | % |
| Size rank in CA | 18 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