City & County of San Francisco Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

City & County of San Francisco is a municipally owned electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 16612. In 2024 it served 2,618 bundled residential customers in California, and its average realised residential price was 24.05 cents per kWh: $10 million of residential revenue divided by 42,476 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, City & County of San Francisco's 2024 average prices were 18.45 cents for commercial customers (291 accounts), 23.67 cents for industrial customers (31 accounts), and 19.50 cents for transportation customers (1 accounts). Industrial customers paid 0.38 cents less per kWh than households, a 2% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within California, City & County of San Francisco ranked number 29 of 35 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (2,618) and accounted for 0.05% of the state's residential electricity sales in 2024, measured in MWh sold or delivered rather than in customers. The state-wide average realised residential price in 2024, computed from the same EIA file, was 31.97 cents per kWh, so City & County of San Francisco's customers paid 7.92 cents below the California average (-24.8%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for California is 34.74 cents per kWh (June 2026, Electric Power Monthly); that is a different, more recent measure across all utilities and is not directly comparable with a 2024 annual average.

EIA's service-territory file places City & County of San Francisco in 2 California counties: San Francisco and San Mateo. On the grid side it operates in the WECC NERC region and the CAISO (California ISO) market, and reported generation, transmission, buying transmission, distribution, buying distribution, wholesale marketing, and retail marketing as its activities. Balancing authority code: CISO.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 27.13 cents per kWh for City & County of San Francisco in California across 3,670 residential customers, 3.08 cents higher than the 2024 final figure. Early-release data has not been validated by EIA and must not be aggregated; the 2024 final figures remain the reference on this page until the 2025 final file is published.

The nearest other utilities in California by service-territory centroid are Alameda Municipal Power (43.5 miles away, 22.98 cents), City of Palo Alto (CA) (60.6 miles away, 20.67 cents), City of Santa Clara (CA) (60.6 miles away, 16.88 cents), City of Lodi (CA) (82.1 miles away, 22.47 cents), and Modesto Irrigation District (86.4 miles away, 21.78 cents).