Huntington Beach's Electricity Provider Is SCE: Rates, Plans and Bills
SCE both delivers and supplies the electricity for Huntington Beach homes; no community choice aggregator supplies Huntington Beach on the Energy Commission's load-serving map. SCE's average residential rate was 34.4¢ per kWh as of June 1, 2026 (CPUC Public Advocates Office), and most of its customers also pay a fixed $24.15 a month.
Who supplies electricity in Huntington Beach
SCE delivers and supplies Huntington Beach's electricity, because the city returned to SCE generation after leaving the Orange County Power Authority in 2024.
What electricity costs in Huntington Beach
SCE's average residential rate was 34.4¢ per kWh as of June 1, 2026 (CPUC Public Advocates Office), plus a fixed $24.15 a month ($12.08 on FERA, $6.00 on CARE) under CPUC Decision 24-05-028. Its residential plans include time-of-use plans TOU-D-4-9PM and TOU-D-5-8PM, TOU-D-PRIME for homes with an electric vehicle, a battery or an electric heat pump, and a tiered plan. The California utility rate tracker compares the large utilities.
SCE's Index of Communities puts Huntington Beach in baseline region 6. Region 6 (cool): 11.4 kWh a day June to September, 11 kWh a day October to May. That baseline is billed at 30¢ per kWh on the tiered plan and use above it at 40¢, as SCE posted them on Sept. 24, 2026.
Discounts and solar billing
CARE takes 30–35% off and FERA 18% off for eligible households, according to the CPUC, and new solar customers go on its Net Billing Tariff, whose export credit the CPUC says is usually below the retail rate. SCE's assistance page has the application. Installers active here are on the Huntington Beach solar companies page; prices and permits on the Huntington Beach solar cost page.
Reading a Huntington Beach solar bill
Huntington Beach homes get both generation and delivery from Southern California Edison. The city was part of Orange County Power Authority from 2022, but the City Council voted to leave in May 2023 and OCPA returned its customers to SCE in 2024, solar customers first in April. A proposal written for Huntington Beach today should use SCE's Solar Billing Plan, not OCPA's April true-up or its surplus rate.
Huntington Beach's return to SCE
Orange County Power Authority became the default generation provider for Huntington Beach businesses on April 1, 2022 and for homes on October 1, 2022. In May 2023 the City Council voted to leave. OCPA switched the city's net metering customers back to SCE bundled service beginning in April 2024 and everyone else in June 2024, on each account's regular meter read date, with no action needed and no fee to customers; OCPA says the City covered the costs. Customers cannot stay with OCPA from Huntington Beach, because service is limited to member communities.
For a new system, that means SCE's Solar Billing Plan. Exports earn Energy Export Credits that change by hour and season, SCE locks the values for nine years from the year you start, and customers who enroll before 2028 get an extra credit of about $0.04 per kWh, or about $0.09 if income-qualified. The credits cannot cover the Base Services Charge, and the settlement bill arrives once a year in the month the system started service. Older articles and some proposals still describe OCPA's April true-up and 10% surplus premium for Huntington Beach; those terms no longer apply here.
If the bill itself is the problem, start with why California electric bills run high and the SCE high-bill breakdown.
Huntington Beach electricity questions
Who provides electricity in Huntington Beach?
SCE delivers and supplies it. The Energy Commission's map shows no community choice aggregator at the center of Huntington Beach, so the generation charges on the bill are SCE's own.
What is SCE's baseline allowance in Huntington Beach?
SCE's Index of Communities puts Huntington Beach in baseline region 6. The summer allowance is 11.4 kWh a day in region 6; that much is billed at the lower tier on SCE's tiered plan.
Sources
- California Energy Commission: Electric Load Serving Entities (IOU & POU) map layer, queried at the city's Census point (checked 2026-09-24)
- Orange County Power Authority: Huntington Beach (checked 2026-09-23)
- CPUC Public Advocates Office, Q2 2026 Electric Rates Report (residential average rates) (checked 2026-09-24)
- CPUC Decision 24-05-028 (income-graduated fixed charge: $24.15, $12.08, $6.00) (checked 2026-09-24)
- CPUC: CARE/FERA Program (discounts; income limits June 1, 2026 to May 31, 2027) (checked 2026-09-24)
- CPUC: Net Energy Metering and Net Billing (checked 2026-09-24)
- SCE: Time-of-Use residential rate plans (checked 2026-09-24)
- SCE tariff: Index of Communities, baseline regions (Cal. PUC Sheet 53902-E) (checked 2026-09-24)
- SCE: Tiered Rate Plan (daily baseline allocations by region; prices as posted) (checked 2026-09-24)
- Orange County Power Authority: FAQ (current member cities) (checked 2026-09-23)
- SCE: how the Solar Billing Plan works (checked 2026-09-23)
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