Murrieta's Electricity Provider Is SCE: Rates, Plans and Bills
SCE both delivers and supplies the electricity for Murrieta homes; no community choice aggregator supplies Murrieta 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 Murrieta
SCE delivers and supplies Murrieta's electricity, because the CEC's load-serving map shows no community choice aggregator at the city's center.
What electricity costs in Murrieta
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 Murrieta in baseline region 10. Region 10 (moderate): 19.3 kWh a day June to September, 12.1 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 Murrieta solar companies page; prices and permits on the Murrieta solar cost page.
Reading a Murrieta solar bill
Have each bidder use the electric utility and rate schedule printed on your bill. For an SCE account, distinguish the current Solar Billing Plan from confirmed legacy enrollment. Do not let a proposal for a nearby community determine your meter’s rate or export treatment.
How SCE pays a new Murrieta solar home
A new SCE solar customer goes on the Solar Billing Plan and the TOU-D-PRIME rate, where grid power costs the most on summer weekdays from 4 to 9 p.m. SCE says export credit values for new Solar Billing Plan customers are locked for nine years from the year they start, and customers who enroll before 2028 also receive an Energy Export Bonus Credit of about $0.04 per kWh, or about $0.09 per kWh for income-qualified households. Once a year SCE issues an annual settlement bill.
Because those credits are worth less than the power you buy in the evening, SCE itself points out that storing solar for evening use is worth more than exporting it. In practice that means a Murrieta bid without a battery should show how much of your production you will use as it is made, and a bid with one should price the battery separately so you can see what it adds.
If the bill itself is the problem, start with why California electric bills run high and the SCE high-bill breakdown.
Murrieta electricity questions
Who provides electricity in Murrieta?
SCE delivers and supplies it. The Energy Commission's map shows no community choice aggregator at the center of Murrieta, so the generation charges on the bill are SCE's own.
What is SCE's baseline allowance in Murrieta?
SCE's Index of Communities puts Murrieta in baseline region 10. The summer allowance is 19.3 kWh a day in region 10; 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)
- California Energy Commission: Electric Load Serving Entities (Other, including CCAs) map layer, queried at the city's Census point (checked 2026-09-24)
- 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)
- SCE: Solar Billing Plan (checked 2026-09-23)
- CPUC: Self-Generation Incentive Program (Residential Solar and Storage Equity) (checked 2026-09-23)
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