City of Santa Clara Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

City of Santa Clara reported 54,000 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 398 kWh a month on average at 17.88 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 Santa Clara ranks 4 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 Santa Clara 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 Santa Clara reported an average of 69 minutes without power per customer and 0.63 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 110 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

City of Santa Clara had about 58 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The California figure across its utilities was 140 minutes. One interruption lasting 110 minutes and 0.63 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 69 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 Santa Clara does not report a residential time-of-use program in its 2025 EIA filing. Ask the utility, because programs change. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 1,233 residential net-metered systems on the City of Santa Clara grid in 2025, with 6.8 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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

Of the 30 utilities listed for California, City of Santa Clara is the 14th largest by homes, at roughly 0.38% of the state total. Among 17 other municipal utilities in California, the median price is 22.78 cents per kWh, so City of Santa Clara at 17.88 cents is 4.90 cents below its peers. At $71.17 a month, an average City of Santa Clara home pays about $1,003 a year less than the California average of $154.73, and uses 96 kWh a month less. City of Santa Clara lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 1,233 of its residential customers use net metering, or 22.8 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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