City of Riverside Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

City of Riverside reported 101,042 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 616 kWh a month on average at 21.94 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 Riverside ranks 13 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 Riverside 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 Riverside reported an average of 76 minutes without power per customer and 0.49 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 154 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

City of Riverside had about 52 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The California figure across its utilities was 140 minutes. One interruption lasting 154 minutes and 0.49 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 76 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 Riverside reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 2,807 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 7,975 residential net-metered systems on the City of Riverside grid in 2025, with 48.6 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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City of Riverside is a municipal utility based in California.

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

By residential customers, City of Riverside ranks 9th of the 30 utilities that report homes in California, with about 0.70% of the state's homes. City of Riverside lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 7,975 of its residential customers use net metering, or 78.9 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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