Santa Clarita's Electricity Provider Is SCE: Rates, Plans and Bills
SCE both delivers and supplies the electricity for Santa Clarita homes; no community choice aggregator supplies Santa Clarita 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 Santa Clarita
SCE delivers and supplies Santa Clarita's electricity, because the CEC's load-serving map shows no community choice aggregator at the city's center.
What electricity costs in Santa Clarita
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 Santa Clarita in baseline regions 9, 14 and 16. Region 9 (moderate): 16.9 kWh a day June to September, 12 kWh a day October to May; Region 14 (hot): 19.2 kWh a day June to September, 11.9 kWh a day October to May; Region 16 (cool): 14.7 kWh a day June to September, 12.4 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 Santa Clarita solar companies page; prices and permits on the Santa Clarita solar cost page.
Reading a Santa Clarita solar bill
Santa Clarita is Southern California Edison territory on the Energy Commission's map. Clean Power Alliance, the community choice provider for much of Los Angeles County, does not list Santa Clarita among its communities, so a Santa Clarita bill normally shows SCE for both generation and delivery. Confirm that on your own bill, then have each bidder model SCE's Solar Billing Plan on the TOU-D-PRIME rate that plan requires.
SCE's Solar Billing Plan in Santa Clarita
With no community choice provider on the account, a new Santa Clarita system goes onto SCE's Solar Billing Plan and the TOU-D-PRIME rate, where grid power is most expensive on summer weekday evenings from 4 to 9 p.m. SCE locks a new customer's export credit values for nine years from the year they start and, for customers who enroll before 2028, adds an Energy Export Bonus Credit of about $0.04 per kWh (about $0.09 for income-qualified households). SCE settles the account once a year on an annual settlement bill.
SCE itself notes that export credits are worth less than the power you buy, which is why storing midday solar for the evening peak is worth more than sending it to the grid. Ask each bidder how much of your production its model assumes you use as it is made, and price any battery as its own line.
If the bill itself is the problem, start with why California electric bills run high and the SCE high-bill breakdown.
Santa Clarita electricity questions
Who provides electricity in Santa Clarita?
SCE delivers and supplies it. The Energy Commission's map shows no community choice aggregator at the center of Santa Clarita, so the generation charges on the bill are SCE's own.
What is SCE's baseline allowance in Santa Clarita?
SCE's Index of Communities puts Santa Clarita in baseline regions 9, 14 and 16. The summer allowance is 16.9 kWh a day in region 9 and 19.2 kWh a day in region 14 and 14.7 kWh a day in region 16; 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)
- Clean Power Alliance: member communities (no Santa Clarita page) (checked 2026-09-23)
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