Merced Irrigation District Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Merced Irrigation District is a public power district or political-subdivision electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 12312. In 2024 it served 11,366 bundled residential customers in California, and its average realised residential price was 24.25 cents per kWh: $21 million of residential revenue divided by 87,505 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Merced Irrigation District's 2024 average prices were 19.34 cents for commercial customers (1,678 accounts) and 15.57 cents for industrial customers (96 accounts). Industrial customers paid 8.68 cents less per kWh than households, a 36% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within California, Merced Irrigation District ranked number 25 of 35 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (11,366) and accounted for 0.10% 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 Merced Irrigation District's customers paid 7.72 cents below the California average (-24.1%). 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 Merced Irrigation District in 1 California county: Merced. On the grid side it operates in the WECC NERC region, and reported generation, buying transmission, distribution, and wholesale marketing as its activities. Balancing authority code: CISO.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 24.15 cents per kWh for Merced Irrigation District in California across 11,850 residential customers, 0.10 cents lower 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 Turlock Irrigation District (28.9 miles away, 16.34 cents), Modesto Irrigation District (44.5 miles away, 21.78 cents), City of Palo Alto (CA) (53.2 miles away, 20.67 cents), City of Santa Clara (CA) (53.2 miles away, 16.88 cents), and City of Lodi (CA) (59.3 miles away, 22.47 cents).