Southern California Edison Rates, Bills and Service Area

Southern California Edison reported 3,262,177 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 474 kWh a month on average at 31.48 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, Southern California Edison ranks 22 from the lowest price.

Another 1,365,070 residential customers use Southern California Edison for delivery only and buy their energy from a different supplier. EIA reports their delivery revenue at about 19.19 cents per kWh, or $87.14 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 Southern California Edison has distribution equipment. That covers 18 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, Southern California Edison reported an average of 116 minutes without power per customer and 0.96 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 121 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Southern California Edison had about 11 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The California figure across its utilities was 140 minutes. One interruption lasting 121 minutes and 0.96 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 116 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. Southern California Edison reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 2,680,506 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 734,452 residential net-metered systems on the Southern California Edison grid in 2025, with 4607.6 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Southern California Edison is an investor-owned utility based in California.

Southern California Edison 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, Southern California Edison ranks 2nd of the 30 utilities that report homes in California, with about 32.2% of the state's homes. Among 4 other investor-owned utilities in California, the median price is 39.32 cents per kWh, so Southern California Edison at 31.48 cents is 7.84 cents below its peers. At $149.07 a month, an average Southern California Edison home pays about $68 a year less than the California average of $154.73, and uses 20 kWh a month less. Southern California Edison lists distribution equipment in 18 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 734,452 of its residential customers use net metering, or 158.7 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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