{"id":2184,"date":"2008-07-23T23:05:12","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T07:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2013-04-19T14:44:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T21:44:22","slug":"historical-electric-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/23\/historical-electric-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Electric Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solar proponents claim that electric rates in California have been going up significantly faster than inflation, making solar a good deal. Here&#8217;s the data to prove it.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"external free\" title=\"http:\/\/www.energy.ca.gov\/electricity\/weighted_avg_retail_prices.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.energy.ca.gov\/electricity\/weighted_avg_retail_prices.html\">http:\/\/www.energy.ca.gov\/electricity\/weighted_avg_retail_prices.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Utility-Wide Weighted Average Retail Electricity Prices 1980-2005<\/p>\n<p>(nominal $) (cents\/kWh)<\/p>\n<pre>Year \tPG&amp;E \tSCE \tSDG&amp;E \tLADWP \tSMUD \tBGP \tESPs \tOther Municipal Utilities\r\nHistorical\r\n1980 \t4.76 \t6.09 \t8.43 \t5.61 \t2.53 \t6.72\r\n1981 \t6.05 \t6.45 \t9.36 \t6.16 \t2.82 \t6.48\r\n1982 \t6.24 \t7.37 \t11.26 \t6.11 \t3.03 \t7.60\r\n1983 \t6.42 \t7.42 \t11.66 \t5.85 \t3.75 \t7.48\r\n1984 \t7.86 \t7.64 \t11.80 \t6.08 \t3.92 \t7.79\r\n1985 \t8.73 \t7.94 \t12.84 \t6.54 \t4.56 \t7.81\r\n1986 \t8.72 \t8.20 \t11.66 \t6.74 \t5.45 \t7.65\r\n1987 \t7.56 \t8.19 \t10.42 \t7.09 \t6.64 \t8.22\r\n1988 \t7.85 \t8.51 \t9.82 \t7.57 \t7.35 \t9.05\r\n1989 \t8.79 \t9.17 \t9.51 \t8.06 \t7.41 \t9.50\r\n1990 \t9.24 \t9.45 \t9.22 \t8.39 \t8.27 \t9.82\r\n1991 \t9.87 \t10.07 \t9.36 \t8.23 \t8.30 \t9.91\r\n1992 \t10.42 \t10.36 \t9.47 \t8.62 \t8.21 \t10.34\r\n1993 \t10.59 \t10.06 \t9.89 \t9.13 \t7.69 \t10.96\r\n1994 \t10.71 \t10.28 \t9.69 \t9.53 \t7.96 \t11.49\r\n1995 \t9.89 \t10.46 \t9.67 \t9.14 \t8.18 \t11.43\r\n1996 \t10.20 \t10.22 \t10.36 \t9.12 \t8.14 \t11.36\r\n1997 \t10.30 \t10.22 \t10.70 \t9.36 \t7.92 \t10.51\r\n1998 \t9.74 \t10.10 \t10.16 \t9.76 \t7.63 \t10.95\r\n1999 \t9.81 \t10.05 \t10.16 \t9.75 \t7.60 \t10.96\r\n2000 \t9.82 \t10.12 \t13.72 \t9.79 \t7.61 \t10.97\r\n2001 \t11.74 \t12.87 \t13.66 \t9.79 \t9.26 \t13.57\r\n2002 \t12.72 \t12.82 \t14.45 \t9.80 \t9.27 \t12.72\r\n2003 \t13.18 \t13.16 \t14.26 \t9.80 \t9.81 \t12.43\r\n2004 \t12.72 \t12.18 \t14.55 \t9.66 \t8.60 \t11.88 \t6.19 \t9.34\r\n2005 \t13.07 \t12.93 \t14.72 \t9.31 \t10.10 \t11.97 \t6.44 \t9.51<\/pre>\n<p>Note: Energy Commission staff estimated these prices using data from EIA, utility websites and submittals during the IEPR cycles.<\/p>\n<p>Utility-Wide Prices &#8211; These include prices for residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural customer classes.<\/p>\n<p>BGP &#8211; This category includes electricity rates for customers of the cities of Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena.<\/p>\n<p>Other Municipal Utilities &#8211; This category includes rates for Redding Electric Utility, Silicon Valley Power, City of Anaheim, Riverside, Roseville, Modesto Irrigation District, Turlock Irrigation District, and Imperial Irrigation District.<\/p>\n<p>ESPs &#8211; These rates only reflect the generation portion of the total rate. Other charges such as T&amp;D must be added. ESPs &#8211; Energy Service Providers include Arizona Power Service (APS), Constellation New Energy (CNE), Pilot Power Group, Strategic Energy LLC, and Sempra Energy Solutions.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"external free\" title=\"http:\/\/www.eia.doe.gov\/cneaf\/electricity\/epm\/table5_6_a.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eia.doe.gov\/cneaf\/electricity\/epm\/table5_6_a.html\">http:\/\/www.eia.doe.gov\/cneaf\/electricity\/epm\/table5_6_a.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Table 5.6.A. Average Retail Price of Electricity to Ultimate Customers by End-Use Sector, by State, November 2007 and 2006 (Cents per kilowatthour)<\/p>\n<pre>                Residential\tCommercial\tIndustrial1\tTransportation\tAll Sectors\r\nCalifornia  \tNov-07 \tNov-06 \tNov-07\tNov-06  Nov-07 \tNov-06  Nov-07  Nov-06 \tNov-07 \tNov-06\r\nCalifornia  \t14.26  \t14.47  \t11.94  \t12.23  \t9.75  \t9.66  \t7.8  \t7.27  \t12.23  \t12.38<\/pre>\n<p><a class=\"external free\" title=\"http:\/\/www.neo.ne.gov\/statshtml\/115.htm\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.neo.ne.gov\/statshtml\/115.htm\">http:\/\/www.neo.ne.gov\/statshtml\/115.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<pre> Average Revenue per Kilowatthour by State\r\n(Lowest to Highest Rate as of November 2007)\r\nRank \tState \tAverage Electricity Rate for\r\nAll Sectors\r\n(Cents per Kilowatthour)\r\n\r\n39  \tMaryland \t11.58\r\n40 \tDistrict of Columbia \t11.99\r\n41 \tVermont \t12.11\r\n42 \tCalifornia \t12.23\r\n43 \tNew Jersey \t12.84\r\n44 \tAlaska \t13.12\r\n45 \tRhode Island \t13.55\r\n46 \tMaine \t13.66\r\n47 \tNew Hampshire \t13.68\r\n48 \tMassachusetts \t14.71\r\n49 \tNew York \t14.90\r\n50 \tConnecticut \t15.77\r\n51 \tHawaii \t23.67<\/pre>\n<p>More info <a class=\"external free\" title=\"http:\/\/www.energy.ca.gov\/electricity\/index.html#rates\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.energy.ca.gov\/electricity\/index.html#rates\">http:\/\/www.energy.ca.gov\/electricity\/index.html#rates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar proponents claim that electric rates in California have been going up significantly faster than inflation, making solar a good deal. Here&#8217;s the data to prove it. http:\/\/www.energy.ca.gov\/electricity\/weighted_avg_retail_prices.html Utility-Wide Weighted Average Retail Electricity Prices 1980-2005 (nominal $) (cents\/kWh) Year PG&amp;E SCE SDG&amp;E LADWP SMUD BGP ESPs Other Municipal Utilities Historical 1980 4.76 6.09 8.43 5.61 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions\/2186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}