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Southern California Edison Co Electricity Rates

Average residential price, customers served and derived annual usage from EIA Form 861, 2024 release.

32.43¢
Avg residential price / kWh
3.2M
Residential customers
+8.0%
vs California average
$1,968
Implied avg annual bill

Among 194 utilities with 100,000 or more residential customers, Southern California Edison Co ranks #7 by average cents per kWh and #2 by residential customers. Southern California Edison Co charged an average of 32.43¢ per kWh to residential customers in 2024 - above the California average and far above the Form 861 US customer-weighted average.

San Diego Gas & Electric Co ranks #1 of 194 by average residential cents per kWh (43.63¢, 307,982 customers, customers rank #90). Florida Power & Light Co ranks #1 of 194 by residential customers (5,236,277 customers at 13.71¢, price rank #122). The highest average rate is not the largest customer count. Southern California Edison Co is investor owned - a shareholder-owned company whose retail rates are set through a state regulatory commission. Its reported average residential price is above the California customer-weighted average (+8.0%). Its customers used below the national residential norm at about 6,069 kWh a year each.

  • San Diego Gas & Electric Co 43.63¢ · customers rank #90
  • Florida Power & Light Co 5,236,277 customers · price rank #122

Highest average rate is not the most customers

Residential customers for the average-rate #1 and customers #1 utilities among 194 with 100,000 or more residential customers

residential customers
  • FL size
    5,236,277
  • CA rate
    307,982

What this shows San Diego Gas & Electric Co ranks #1 of 194 by average residential cents per kWh (43.63¢, 307,982 customers, customers rank #90). Florida Power & Light Co ranks #1 of 194 by residential customers (5,236,277 customers at 13.71¢, price rank #122). The highest average rate is not the largest customer count.

Source EIA Form 861 residential survey, latest release. Average cents per kWh and customer counts from the same rows; no tariff or bill is implied. As of 2024

EIA Form 861 utility filing desk

Release CA-2024 · Southern California Edison Co ABOVE STATE

Southern California Edison Co · Form 861 2024 · ABOVE STATE

  • RATE 32.43¢/kWh
  • RANK #35/39
  • VS-ST +8.0%
  • VS-US +89.5%
  • CUST 3.2M
  • BILL $1,968
  • OWN IOU
  • PHOTO MA 1.17¢
  • BOOK 2/194

Nearest Form 861 price peer: Massachusetts Electric Co (MA) (+1.17¢ gap)

EIA Form 861 residential filing stamps for this utility record. Read with this utility → · California rates

Southern California Edison Co in the Form 861 price neighbourhood

Average residential ¢/kWh among this utility and nearest indexable peers

¢/kWh
  • MA
    30
  • this util
    32
  • MA
    34
  • CT
    34
  • NY
    36

What this shows Southern California Edison Co reports 32.43¢/kWh, corpus customer-rank 2 of 194.

Source EIA Form 861 residential survey As of 2024
F29/100

RateWatt cost context

How Southern California Edison Co compares on reported cost context

A weighted comparison, not a tariff quote, reliability grade, service-quality score, or recommendation. Lower price and lower implied annual bill score better against reporting utilities in California; the state generation context is shown separately.

Price against state peers
11/100

32.43¢/kWh · median 20.67¢/kWh

Implied annual bill against state peers
21/100

$1,968/yr · median $1,642/yr

State renewable generation context
86/100

61.4% · median 22.8%

Weights: 50% price, 30% implied annual bill, 20% state renewable-generation context. Unreported inputs are excluded and the remaining weights are redistributed. Price and bill use EIA Form 861 (2024); generation context uses EIA state generation data (2025) and is not attributed to this provider.

Rate comparison

How this price compares

Ranked by price against the 39 utilities reporting residential rates in California, Southern California Edison Co comes 35th of 39. The state's range runs from Surprise Valley Electrification at 13.14¢ to San Diego Gas & Electric Co at 43.63¢, so where a household sits inside California depends far more on which utility serves it than on the statewide average alone.

Against the 5 other investor owned utilities reporting in California, whose customer-weighted average is 39.50¢, Southern California Edison Co is below its own ownership class within the state (-17.9%).

State price distribution

Where Southern California Edison Co sits among California utilities

2024 average residential price across the 39 utilities reporting a rate in California

32.43¢/kWh 11th affordability percentile More affordable than 11% of 38 other utilities

Southern California Edison Co

average residential price, equal-width bands

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Source EIA Form 861 · 2024

Southern California Edison Co average residential price against three benchmarks, 2024
BenchmarkPrice / kWhDifference
Southern California Edison Co 32.43¢ -
California (customer-weighted, 39 utilities) 30.02¢ +8.0%
US Form 861 customer-weighted average (1.5K utilities) 17.11¢ +89.5%
Investor Owned customer-weighted US avg (183 utilities) 18.37¢ +76.6%

Rate against consumption: California utilities

Each dot is one of the 39 California utilities reporting both a residential price and residential sales in 2024, placed by its rank percentile within that group rather than its raw value, so one very large utility cannot flatten the rest. Bubble size follows customers served, rank-scaled so a utility with millions of customers cannot swamp the rest. Southern California Edison Co is highlighted. In California the cheapest rate belongs to Surprise Valley Electrification (13.14¢) while the smallest implied annual bill belongs to City of Vernon ($670) - a household's bill is price multiplied by consumption, so the two rankings are different lists. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 39 entities by Price rank percentile (100 = most expensive in state) (X) and Consumption rank percentile (100 = heaviest use) (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Costly rate, heavy useCheaper rate, heavy useCostly rate, light useCheaper rate, light use 050100150 050100150 Price rank percentile (100 = most expensive in state) Consumption rank percentile (100 = heaviest use)
Each dot is one of the 39 California utilities reporting both a residential price and residential sales in 2024, placed by its rank percentile within that group rather than its raw value, so one very large utility cannot flatten the rest. Bubble size follows customers served, rank-scaled so a utility with millions of customers cannot swamp the rest. Southern California Edison Co is highlighted. In California the cheapest rate belongs to Surprise Valley Electrification (13.14¢) while the smallest implied annual bill belongs to City of Vernon ($670) - a household's bill is price multiplied by consumption, so the two rankings are different lists.

Territory and usage

Scale and consumption

Southern California Edison Co reported 3.2M residential customers, ranking 1st of 39 utilities in California by customers served and covering 35.2% of the state's reported residential customers.

Dividing reported residential sales by customers served gives about 6,069 kWh per customer per year - -9.3% against the California median of 6,688 kWh , implying a typical annual bill near $1,968.

State peers

Every utility reporting in California

All 39 utilities reporting bundled residential service in California, largest first, with Southern California Edison Co marked. The named companies either side of it are the ones a household in this state might otherwise be served by.

Residential utilities in California, 2024, ranked by customers served
Utility Ownership Customers Avg ¢/kWh
Southern California Edison Co (this page) Investor Owned 3.2M 32.43¢
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. Investor Owned 1.9M 39.62¢
Los Angeles Department of Water & Power Municipal 1.4M 23.84¢
Sacramento Municipal Util Dist Political Subdivision 592.6K 17.87¢
Sunrun Inc. Behind the Meter 325.6K 25.86¢
San Diego Gas & Electric Co Investor Owned 308.0K 43.63¢
Tesla Inc. Behind the Meter 147.4K 18.56¢
Imperial Irrigation District Political Subdivision 142.1K 17.91¢
City of Anaheim - (CA) Municipal 105.8K 17.11¢
Modesto Irrigation District Political Subdivision 103.7K 21.78¢
City of Riverside - (CA) Municipal 100.5K 20.20¢
Turlock Irrigation District Political Subdivision 80.6K 16.34¢
City of Glendale - (CA) Municipal 77.6K 33.81¢
SunPower Capital, LLC Behind the Meter 71.5K 24.24¢
City of Roseville - (CA) Municipal 63.1K 18.66¢
City of Pasadena - (CA) Municipal 58.6K 25.98¢
Sunnova Behind the Meter 52.8K 27.55¢
City of Santa Clara - (CA) Municipal 50.9K 16.88¢
City of Burbank Water and Power Municipal 46.2K 19.25¢
Liberty Utilities Investor Owned 43.9K 25.92¢
City of Redding - (CA) Municipal 38.2K 17.85¢
PacifiCorp Investor Owned 36.3K 20.64¢
Alameda Municipal Power Municipal 33.2K 22.98¢
City of Palo Alto - (CA) Municipal 26.2K 20.67¢
Spruce Finance Behind the Meter 25.3K 19.18¢
City of Lodi - (CA) Municipal 23.8K 22.47¢
Bear Valley Electric Service Investor Owned 23.3K 30.67¢
City of Colton - (CA) Municipal 17.5K 24.85¢
City of Azusa Municipal 15.6K 19.08¢
EverBright, LLC Behind the Meter 11.5K 19.64¢
Merced Irrigation District Political Subdivision 11.4K 24.25¢
City of Moreno Valley - (CA) Municipal 7.9K 39.87¢
City of Shasta Lake - (CA) Municipal 4.3K 19.26¢
Surprise Valley Electrification Cooperative 2.8K 13.14¢
City & County of San Francisco Municipal 2.6K 24.05¢
City of Corona - (CA) Municipal 1.3K 15.50¢
Palmetto Solar, LLC Behind the Meter 248 24.23¢
City of Vernon Municipal 73 14.55¢
Valley Electric Assn, Inc Cooperative 12 19.10¢

For generation mix and price history statewide, see electricity rates in California.

Ownership class peers

Investor Owned utilities with similar residential prices

Beyond California, these indexable investor owned utilities report the closest residential averages to Southern California Edison Co in the same Form 861 release. Peer sets differ by ownership class and price, not a shared national list.

Same-ownership utilities outside California nearest in residential price
Utility State Customers Avg ¢/kWh
Massachusetts Electric Co Massachusetts 526.4K 33.60¢
United Illuminating Co Connecticut 256.3K 34.04¢
NSTAR Electric Company Massachusetts 383.4K 29.91¢
Consolidated Edison Co-NY Inc New York 2.7M 35.66¢
Connecticut Light & Power Co Connecticut 924.1K 28.51¢

FAQ

Common questions about Southern California Edison Co rates

How much does Southern California Edison Co charge per kWh?
Southern California Edison Co reported an average residential price of 32.43¢ per kWh across its bundled residential customers in the 2024 EIA Form 861 release. That is an annual average across all its residential customers, not a rate schedule, so an individual bill depends on the tariff, usage pattern and season.
Is Southern California Edison Co expensive compared with the rest of California?
Its average residential price is above the California customer-weighted average of 30.02¢ per kWh, a difference of +8.0%. The state figure is weighted by customers across the 39 utilities reporting residential service in California.
What is the average electricity bill for Southern California Edison Co customers?
Dividing reported residential sales by residential customers gives about 6,069 kWh per customer per year. At the reported average price that implies roughly $1,968 a year, or about $164 a month. This is RateWatt's arithmetic on two EIA columns, not a figure EIA publishes.
Who owns Southern California Edison Co?
EIA classifies Southern California Edison Co as Investor Owned, a shareholder-owned company whose retail rates are set through a state regulatory commission. Nationally, the customer-weighted average across Investor Owned utilities was 18.37¢ per kWh in the 2024 Form 861 release.

Limitations

What this page does and does not tell you

  • An average across bundled residential customers for the year, revenue divided by sales, not a rate schedule.
  • Form 861 presence is not evidence of availability at an address or of customer choice.

See our methodology and comparing utility costs across states .

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Form 861 annual electric power industry report, 2024 release. Retrieved and formatted by RateWatt.

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional or financial advice. Data is sourced from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Rates change and averages do not describe any individual account. Consult your utility or a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Every figure on RateWatt is rendered directly from official U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data, no number is typed in by an editor. Average price, customers and sales are reported by EIA Form 861 (2024). Per-customer annual usage, the implied annual bill, the customer-weighted state average, the Form 861 US customer-weighted average, the ownership-class customer-weighted average, and every percentage difference are RateWatt's arithmetic on those reported columns, never the separate EIA retail-sales statewide series. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2025.