City of Pasadena Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

City of Pasadena reported 58,602 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 460 kWh a month on average at 25.11 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, City of Pasadena ranks 19 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 City of Pasadena 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, City of Pasadena reported an average of 60 minutes without power per customer and 0.65 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 93 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

City of Pasadena had about 67 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The California figure across its utilities was 140 minutes. One interruption lasting 93 minutes and 0.65 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 60 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. City of Pasadena reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 41 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 3,121 residential net-metered systems on the City of Pasadena grid in 2025, with 18.8 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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City of Pasadena is a municipal utility based in California.

City of Pasadena 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. City of Pasadena is 13th by size and serves about 0.41% of the state's homes. At $115.61 a month, an average City of Pasadena home pays about $469 a year less than the California average of $154.73, and uses 33 kWh a month less. City of Pasadena lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 3,121 of its residential customers use net metering, or 53.3 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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