Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) Rates and Average Bill Guide

Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) reported 1,738,444 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 464 kWh a month on average at 37.52 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, PG&E ranks 24 from the lowest price.

Another 3,317,112 residential customers use PG&E for delivery only and buy their energy from a different supplier. EIA reports their delivery revenue at about 24.61 cents per kWh, or $92.25 a month, which does not include the supply 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 PG&E has distribution equipment. That covers 50 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, PG&E reported an average of 208 minutes without power per customer and 1.50 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 138 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

PG&E had about 81 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The California figure across its utilities was 140 minutes. One interruption lasting 138 minutes and 1.50 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 208 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. PG&E reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 659,141 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 924,854 residential net-metered systems on the PG&E grid in 2025, with 5948.3 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

A private company owned by shareholders. A state commission reviews its costs and sets or approves its rates in formal rate cases. In California, that review is done by the California Public Utilities Commission.

PG&E is an investor-owned utility based in California.

PG&E 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. PG&E is 1st by size and serves about 35.2% of the state's homes. Its price of 37.52 cents per kWh is 1.22 cents above the median of 4 other investor-owned utilities in California (36.30 cents). At $173.95 a month, an average PG&E home pays about $231 a year more than the California average of $154.73, and uses 30 kWh a month less. PG&E lists distribution equipment in 50 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 924,854 of its residential customers use net metering, or 182.9 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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