Stockton's Electricity Providers: Ava Community Energy and PG&E
Stockton homes get their electricity from two providers on one PG&E bill: PG&E delivers it, and Ava Community Energy supplies the generation by default. PG&E's average residential rate was 33.7¢ per kWh as of June 2026 (CPUC Public Advocates Office), and most of its customers also pay a fixed $24.15 a month.
Who supplies electricity in Stockton
PG&E delivers power to Stockton homes, reads the meter and sends the bill; Ava Community Energy supplies the generation by default, because Ava announced service to Stockton and Lathrop; the CEC's load-serving map does not show it yet. The Stockton bill lists PG&E delivery charges and Ava generation charges separately.
What electricity costs in Stockton
PG&E's average residential rate was 33.7¢ per kWh as of June 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 E-TOU-C and E-TOU-D, the Electric Home plan E-ELEC, the electric-vehicle plans EV2 and EV-B, and the tiered plan E-1. The California utility rate tracker compares the large utilities.
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. PG&E's assistance page has the application. Ava credits the generation part of a solar bill under its own terms. Installers active here are on the Stockton solar companies page; prices and permits on the Stockton solar cost page.
Reading a Stockton solar bill
Since April 2025, Ava Community Energy has been the default generation provider in Stockton, after the City Council chose it; PG&E still delivers the power and sends the bill. Customers were enrolled automatically unless they opted out. The Energy Commission's community choice map, last updated in August 2025, does not yet show Stockton, so check the generation line on your own bill and have each bidder model Ava's solar rules if it says Ava.
Ava's arrival and what it changes for solar
The Stockton City Council chose Ava Community Energy, formerly East Bay Community Energy, as the default generation provider in 2022, and Ava began service in Stockton and Lathrop in April 2025, enrolling customers in its Bright Choice service unless they opted out. PG&E still delivers the power, maintains the lines and sends the bill.
For a new solar system, that means Ava's Solar Billing Plan rules on the generation side. Ava requires its residential solar customers on that plan to take PG&E's E-ELEC rate, pays an extra $0.025 per kWh for exports between 3 and 8 p.m. to customers not on CARE or FERA, and an extra $0.01 per kWh on all exports to CARE and FERA customers. Ava settles its side each April; PG&E settles delivery on its own date.
If the bill itself is the problem, start with why California electric bills run high and the PG&E high-bill breakdown.
Stockton electricity questions
Who provides electricity in Stockton?
PG&E delivers the power and sends the bill; Ava Community Energy supplies the generation by default. Both appear as separate charges on the PG&E bill.
Sources
- California Energy Commission: Electric Load Serving Entities (IOU & POU) map layer, queried at the city's Census point (checked 2026-09-24)
- Ava Community Energy: service to Stockton and Lathrop (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)
- PG&E: Residential rates table, March 1, 2026 to present (Advice Letter 7846-E) (checked 2026-09-24)
- City of Stockton: Ava Community Energy (checked 2026-09-23)
- Ava Community Energy: Solar Billing Plan (checked 2026-09-23)
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