SCE Electricity Rates: What Homes Pay Southern California Edison per kWh

The SCE price was 15.8¢ in 2016 and is 31.6¢ now, up 99.7%. Prices in general are up 37.8% over the same years. SCE itself quotes a higher figure, 34.5¢ from October 2026. The two answer different questions. Ours is what homes on its supply actually paid over the past year; SCE’s is the rate it expects from that date.

Every month since 1990

The thin monthly line swings hard from one month to the next, which is why the bold 12-month line is the fairer read. Against 10.7¢ in 1990, the price is up 195.4%; all prices are up 153.1%.

Against inflation

The steepest stretch is recent: up 73.7% since 2020, from 18.2¢.

Year by year

Through the year

Summer drives this bill. August averages $263; October averages $107.

Average for each calendar month over the last 36 months EIA has published: bill per home, with the price per kWh that month beneath it.

Price or use?

Who supplies SCE’s homes

70% of the homes on SCE’s wires still buy power from it. The rest pay it about 19.2¢ per kWh for delivery and buy from another supplier.

Share of the utility’s homes buying power from the utility itself, each year. EIA-861, Parts A and C, 2025 latest.

Other utilities nearby

EIA-861, 2025, homes buying their power from the utility itself. A year’s average, so the figure for this utility can differ a little from the 12 months above.

Where it serves

EIA-861 Service Territory, 2025. A county on the list may be served only in part, and other utilities may serve the same county.

Outages

The two lines tell the story of 2025: 545 minutes without power counting everything, 116 minutes once major event days are taken out. That was the year of the January windstorms, when SCE shut off power as a wildfire precaution.

Rooftop solar

734,452 homes, or 15.9% of those SCE serves, were on net-metered solar at the end of 2025.

EIA-861 Net Metering: homes with solar panels on a net-metering arrangement at the end of each year.

The official tariff

Fixed monthly charge: Base Services Charge, billed by the day: about $24.15 a month for most homes, $12 for FERA and $6 for CARE customers, according to SCE.

SCE’s plan prices change often and its tariff book is the place to read them; we show only what we could re-check. SCE states an average residential rate of 34.5¢ per kWh from 1 October 2026, or 33.3¢ counting the Climate Credit.

Checked by hand against the utility’s own documents on 9 November 2026. All Southern California Edison rate schedules.

Rate changes in front of the regulator

• 1 October 2026: SCE’s average residential rate moved from 34.4¢ to 34.5¢ per kWh. SCE describes it as the net result of Woolsey Fire revenue increases, offset by decreases elsewhere. SCE rate advisory.
• 18 September 2025: The CPUC decided SCE’s 2025 general rate case (A.23-05-010): a 2025 base revenue requirement of $9.664 billion, up 12.61%. At 500 kWh a month, the non-CARE bill rises $15.52 (9.1%) and the CARE bill $9.79 (9.1%). CPUC decision fact sheet.

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How these figures are made

The price is what homes paid the utility in a period, divided by the kWh they bought. It includes every charge the utility bills: energy, delivery, fixed charges, riders and credits. It does not match any one rate on a tariff, and it leaves out homes that buy their power from someone else. The 12-month figures sum revenue and kWh over the months EIA has published. The bill and kWh use the middle month’s customer count, so a one-month slip in EIA’s customer figure cannot move them. We never edit a month EIA published, and the latest months are preliminary until EIA finalises them.

Frequently asked questions

Download the data

• Southern California Edison, every month (CSV)
• All 40 utilities, latest figures (CSV)
• Citable archive on Zenodo (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24071582): all 40 utilities, with field descriptions
• Dataset, code and history on GitHub

How to cite this page

@dataset{say2026southerncaliforni,
  author    = {Say, Jeremiah},
  title     = {Southern California Edison electricity rates: monthly residential price since 1990},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {GreenCalculus},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.24071582},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24071582}
}

Version history

• 1.1 (9 November 2026): the dataset is archived with a DOI (Zenodo) and on GitHub under CC BY 4.0; added BibTeX.
• 1.0 (November 2026): first published.