Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) Rates and Bills

Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) reported 601,275 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 663 kWh a month on average at 18.93 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, SMUD ranks 6 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 SMUD has distribution equipment. That covers 3 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, SMUD reported an average of 50 minutes without power per customer and 0.87 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 57 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

SMUD had about 78 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The California figure across its utilities was 140 minutes. One interruption lasting 57 minutes and 0.87 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 50 minute total.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), reliability schedule, measured under other standard. Utilities define events slightly differently, so compare with care.

• Time-of-use pricing. SMUD reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 583,470 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 62,657 residential net-metered systems on the SMUD grid in 2025, with 282.8 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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SMUD is a public power district based in California.

California has 30 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. SMUD is 5th by size and serves about 4.2% of the state's homes. Its price of 18.93 cents per kWh is 1.93 cents below the median of 4 other public power districts in California (20.86 cents). Over a year, the typical SMUD bill runs about $352 below the state average, with monthly use 169 kWh higher. SMUD lists distribution equipment in 3 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 62,657 of its residential customers use net metering, or 104.2 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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