Redlands' Electricity Provider Is SCE: Rates, Plans and Bills
SCE both delivers and supplies the electricity for Redlands homes; no community choice aggregator supplies Redlands 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 Redlands
SCE delivers and supplies Redlands's electricity, because the CEC's load-serving map shows no community choice aggregator at the city's center.
What electricity costs in Redlands
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 Redlands 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 Redlands solar companies page.
Reading a Redlands solar bill
Southern California Edison is the only electric provider mapped over Redlands in the Energy Commission's utility layers, so SCE both supplies and delivers the power; there is no community choice program to model. What changes with solar is how SCE credits the power you send back, which is set by its Solar Billing Plan. Ask each bidder to model that plan from your own twelve months of SCE bills.
SCE's Solar Billing Plan in Redlands
Under the Solar Billing Plan, power a Redlands home sends to the grid earns credits priced from hourly avoided-cost values, and those credits are applied against later bills. Once a year, in the month the system first went live, SCE issues a True-Up bill that settles the running balance. What is left over after that is bought back at SCE's surplus rate, which SCE currently puts near two cents per kWh.
Because the buy-back rate is so low, a Redlands design that sends most of its output to the grid is worth less than its kilowatt-hour total suggests. Ask each bidder what share of the production its model assumes you use at home, and whether a battery changes that.
If the bill itself is the problem, start with why California electric bills run high and the SCE high-bill breakdown.
Redlands electricity questions
Who provides electricity in Redlands?
SCE delivers and supplies it. The Energy Commission's map shows no community choice aggregator at the center of Redlands, so the generation charges on the bill are SCE's own.
What is SCE's baseline allowance in Redlands?
SCE's Index of Communities puts Redlands 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)
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