Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Rates and Bills

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power reported 1,415,602 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 469 kWh a month on average at 26.48 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, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power ranks 20 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 Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has distribution equipment. That covers 2 counties 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, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power reported an average of 89 minutes without power per customer and 0.63 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 141 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power had about 39 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The California figure across its utilities was 140 minutes. One interruption lasting 141 minutes and 0.63 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 89 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. Los Angeles Department of Water and Power reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 16,107 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 95,898 residential net-metered systems on the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power grid in 2025, with 603.1 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is a municipal utility based in California.

By residential customers, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power ranks 3rd of the 30 utilities that report homes in California, with about 9.9% of the state's homes. Its price of 26.48 cents per kWh is 4.54 cents above the median of 17 other municipal utilities in California (21.94 cents). At $124.20 a month, an average Los Angeles Department of Water and Power home pays about $366 a year less than the California average of $154.73, and uses 25 kWh a month less. Los Angeles Department of Water and Power lists distribution equipment in 2 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 95,898 of its residential customers use net metering, or 67.7 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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