San Diego Gas and Electric Rates, Bills and Service Area

San Diego Gas and Electric reported 284,416 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 367 kWh a month on average at 45.77 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, San Diego Gas and Electric ranks 26 from the lowest price.

Another 1,094,049 residential customers use San Diego Gas and Electric for delivery only and buy their energy from a different supplier. EIA reports their delivery revenue at about 27.33 cents per kWh, or $75.80 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 San Diego Gas and Electric 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, San Diego Gas and Electric reported an average of 68 minutes without power per customer and 0.51 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 133 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

San Diego Gas and Electric had about 60 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The California figure across its utilities was 140 minutes. One interruption lasting 133 minutes and 0.51 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 68 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. San Diego Gas and Electric reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 1,200,084 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 340,500 residential net-metered systems on the San Diego Gas and Electric grid in 2025, with 1888.8 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.

San Diego Gas and Electric is an investor-owned utility based in California.

San Diego Gas and Electric 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, San Diego Gas and Electric ranks 4th of the 30 utilities that report homes in California, with about 9.6% of the state's homes. Its price of 45.77 cents per kWh is 11.27 cents above the median of 4 other investor-owned utilities in California (34.50 cents). San Diego Gas and Electric lists distribution equipment in 2 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 340,500 of its residential customers use net metering, or 247.0 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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