Alameda Municipal Power Rates, Bills and Service Area Guide

Alameda Municipal Power reported 32,364 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 361 kWh a month on average at 24.01 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 26 California utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Alameda Municipal Power ranks 17 from the lowest price.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), sales to ultimate customers. Price is revenue divided by sales and includes fixed charges.

EIA lists the counties where Alameda Municipal Power has distribution equipment. That covers 1 county in California. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

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For 2025, Alameda Municipal Power reported an average of 9 minutes without power per customer and 0.05 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 171 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Alameda Municipal Power had about 118 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The California figure across its utilities was 140 minutes. One interruption lasting 171 minutes and 0.05 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 9 minute total.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), reliability schedule, measured under IEEE 1366. Utilities define events slightly differently, so compare with care.

• Time-of-use pricing. Alameda Municipal Power reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 1,019 residential customers enrolled in dynamic pricing programs of all kinds. Ask the utility which rate schedules you qualify for. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 1,235 residential net-metered systems on the Alameda Municipal Power grid in 2025, with 5.2 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Alameda Municipal Power is a municipal utility based in California.

Alameda Municipal Power operates in the CAISO power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

California has 30 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Alameda Municipal Power is 18th by size and serves about 0.23% of the state's homes. Its price of 24.01 cents per kWh is 2.07 cents above the median of 17 other municipal utilities in California (21.94 cents). Over a year, the typical Alameda Municipal Power bill runs about $816 below the state average, with monthly use 132 kWh lower. Alameda Municipal Power lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 1,235 of its residential customers use net metering, or 38.2 per 1,000 homes, against 159.4 for California as a whole.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data). Peers are other utilities of the same type in California with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

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