Surprise Valley Electrification Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)
Cooperative|EIA utility 18260|California + 2 more|Bundled
In 2024, Surprise Valley Electrification's residential customers paid an average of 13.14 cents per kWh: $4.4 million of revenue over 33,171 MWh of sales across 2,785 bundled residential customers, as reported to EIA on Form 861.
How the 13.14c figure is calculated
13.14c/kWh = $4,358k revenue / 33,171 MWh x 100. This is EIA's average realised price for 2024: everything Surprise Valley Electrification billed its residential customers (energy, delivery, fuel and rider charges, fixed charges) divided by the kilowatt-hours it sold. It is not a tariff rate, and a 2024 annual average will differ from a current bill. For a 1,000 kWh month at this average, the energy cost works out to about $131 before taxes.
About Surprise Valley Electrification's 2024 electricity prices
Surprise Valley Electrification is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 18260. In 2024 it served 2,785 bundled residential customers in California (its largest state of 3), and its average realised residential price was 13.14 cents per kWh: $4.4 million of residential revenue divided by 33,171 MWh of residential sales.
Across the other sectors, Surprise Valley Electrification's 2024 average prices were 13.72 cents for commercial customers (994 accounts) and 11.92 cents for industrial customers (948 accounts). Industrial customers paid 1.22 cents less per kWh than households, a 9% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.
Within California, Surprise Valley Electrification ranked number 28 of 35 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (2,785) and accounted for 0.04% 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 Surprise Valley Electrification's customers paid 18.83 cents below the California average (-58.9%). 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 Surprise Valley Electrification in 2 California counties: Lassen and Modoc. It also reports 2024 retail sales in Oregon (1,211 residential customers at 12.77 cents) and Nevada (6 residential customers at 13.82 cents). On the grid side it operates in the WECC NERC region, and reported distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: PACW.
Surprise Valley Electrification is not among the utilities included in EIA's preliminary 2025 early release, so the 2024 final data is the most recent figure available for it.
The nearest other utilities in California by service-territory centroid are City of Redding (CA) (100.5 miles away, 17.85 cents), City of Shasta Lake (CA) (100.5 miles away, 19.26 cents), Midstate Electric Coop, Inc (142.9 miles away, 10.52 cents), City of Roseville (CA) (166.7 miles away, 18.66 cents), and Liberty Utilities (167.3 miles away, 25.92 cents).
| Sector | Customers | Sales (MWh) | Revenue ($k) | Avg c/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 2,785 | 33,171 | 4,358 | 13.14 |
| Commercial | 994 | 10,252 | 1,406 | 13.72 |
| Industrial | 948 | 59,888 | 7,136 | 11.92 |
Counties served in California (2)
From the EIA-861 Service Territory file; a listed county can be served in part only.
| Oregon Bundled | 1,211 res. accounts | 12.77c | #22 of 24 |
| Nevada Bundled | 6 res. accounts | 13.82c | #9 of 11 |
Nearby and comparable utilities in California
- EIA utility number
- 18260
- Ownership type
- Cooperative
- Data year
- 2024 final (EIA-861)
- Primary state
- California
- States with retail sales
- CA, OR, NV
- Service type
- Bundled (Part A)
- Bundled residential customers (CA, price basis)
- 2,785
- Residential accounts served (CA)
- 2,785
- All accounts, all sectors (CA)
- 4,727
- Residential price, 2024
- 13.14 c/kWh
- Commercial price, 2024
- 13.72 c/kWh
- Industrial price, 2024
- 11.92 c/kWh
- Residential sales
- 33,171 MWh
- Residential revenue
- $4.4 million
- Rank in California by residential accounts served
- 28 of 35
- Share of California residential sales (MWh, not customers)
- 0.04%
- California average, 2024
- 31.97 c/kWh
- Counties served (CA)
- 2
- NERC region
- WECC
- Balancing authority
- PACW
- Reported activities
- Distribution
- Registry status
- Reported on Form EIA-861 for 2024
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Bill Diagnostic ->Time-of-Use Guide ->Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 Annual, 2024 final data (public domain), retrieved 28 August 2026; prices are average realised revenue per kWh, not tariffs. Final 2024 file f8612024.zip (released 3 December 2025) from the EIA-861 detailed data files. Preliminary 2025 figures come from the early-release file f8612025er.zip (4 August 2026), which EIA has not yet validated; they are labelled as such wherever shown and never mixed into a final figure.
Method: cents per kWh = revenue (thousand dollars) divided by sales (megawatthours), times 100. Customer counts, sales and revenue are the utility's own annual survey responses by state and sector. Bundled = energy plus delivery from one utility; delivery-only = the wires charge for customers who buy energy from a competitive supplier; energy-only = a competitive supplier's energy charge without delivery. County lists come from the EIA-861 Service Territory file; territory centroids used for "nearby utilities" are unweighted means of Census 2023 county centroids. EIA content is in the public domain (EIA copyright and reuse statement); the EIA logo is not used. Corrections: [email protected].