Riverside Public Utilities commercial electricity rates in California

• Average commercial price, 202520.05¢per kWh, all commercial customers
• vs California average−23%state commercial average 26.16¢
• Commercial customers12,37710th largest of 29 in California
• Average use2,975 kWha month per commercial customer
• Average bill$596a month per commercial customer
• Since 2015+24%from 16.18¢ per kWh
• Outages76 mina year per customer · US average 124

Riverside Public Utilities is a municipal utility serving 1 county in California. Among the 29 California utilities in EIA’s 2025 sales data with 500 or more commercial customers, it is the 10th largest, with about 0.7% of the state’s commercial customers. EIA lists it as City of Riverside.

Riverside Public Utilities commercial electricity prices, 2015 to 2025

In 2015 Riverside Public Utilities billed its commercial customers an average of 16.18¢ per kWh. In 2025 the figure was 20.05¢, so it rose 24% over 10 years. The average for all commercial customers in California rose 66% over the same period. The latest year, 2025, is the highest of the 11 on record here. Between 2024 and 2025 it rose 5.0%.

Average use and average bill are the utility’s commercial sales and revenue divided by its commercial customers and by twelve. The bill is an all-in figure: energy, delivery, demand and fixed charges together. A few very large customers pull both averages up, so most businesses use and pay less than the average.

Residential, commercial and industrial prices at Riverside Public Utilities

In 2025 the average commercial price at Riverside Public Utilities was 8.6% below the residential figure and 26% above the industrial one. Larger customers take power at a higher voltage and use it more steadily, so at most utilities the average falls from residential to commercial to industrial. Which class an account falls in is the utility’s decision, and the line between commercial and industrial is drawn differently from one utility to the next.

How Riverside Public Utilities’ commercial rates are set

Riverside Public Utilities is owned by the community it serves. Its rates are set locally, by the city council or a utility board, and in most states the state commission does not set them. A commercial account is billed on a rate schedule, chosen by the size of the account and the voltage it takes power at, and a schedule usually combines a fixed monthly charge, a charge per kWh and, above a certain size, a demand charge on the highest rate of draw in the month. The schedule code is printed on the bill. What a business in California can and cannot choose is on the California page.

Meters, time-varying rates and net metering at Riverside Public Utilities

EIA counts 12,377 commercial meters at Riverside Public Utilities in 2025, and 12,313 of them (99%) are advanced meters (AMI), which record use at least hourly and report it to the utility at least daily. Of the rest, 61 are automated-reading (AMR) meters, which send a reading to the utility for billing only, and 3 are standard meters. An advanced meter is what makes interval data possible, and interval data is what shows when a building’s peak demand happens.

EIA records 273 commercial net-metered generating systems at Riverside Public Utilities in 2025, with 30.4 MW of capacity between them: about 22 for every 1,000 commercial customers. Net metering credits a customer for power its own system sends to the grid; the terms are in the utility’s tariff.

How reliable is Riverside Public Utilities’ electric service?

Riverside Public Utilities customers went without power for an average of 76 minutes in 2025, excluding major storms, with about 0.49 interruptions per customer. The average across U.S. utilities reporting the same way is 124 minutes. With major storms counted the figure was 88 minutes. These are averages over every customer of every class, so they describe the system and not any one street.

Where Riverside Public Utilities serves

EIA records Riverside Public Utilities serving customers in 1 California county: Riverside. A county can be shared between utilities, so this does not tell you who serves a given address. The utility that serves an address is the one named on its bill.

EIA lists the California ISO as its balancing authority. CAISO is one of the organised wholesale markets, which run the grid and the wholesale power market across their area.

Other utilities in California

The average each billed its commercial customers in 2025. The California page has the state’s own figures and every utility with 500 or more commercial customers.

• Southern California Edison (22.94¢)
• PG&E (38.42¢)
• SDG&E (39.12¢)
• LADWP (25.00¢)
• SMUD (17.57¢)
• Modesto Irrigation District (18.23¢)
• Imperial Irrigation District (18.24¢)
• Anaheim Public Utilities (20.91¢)
• Glendale Water & Power (26.05¢)

What these figures can and cannot tell you

• They are averages over every commercial customer. A utility whose commercial customers are mostly large averages fewer cents per kWh than one serving mostly small shops, so a lower figure can mean larger customers and not a lower rate.
• They are not a rate schedule. None of these figures is a charge printed in Riverside Public Utilities’ tariff, and nothing here works out a bill from one. The tariff index lists the utilities whose filed schedules are quoted on this site.
• They are annual and final. EIA publishes utility figures once a year. The California page carries the state’s trailing 12 months, which is more recent and still preliminary.

For one building, the cost estimator gives a range by building type, size and state, and price by utility sets every utility side by side. Commercial vs residential vs industrial compares the classes in every state.

Data: every year of these figures, for this utility and every other with a page, is in one CSV, free to use with credit to the U.S. Energy Information Administration and this site. To cite this page: Riverside Public Utilities commercial electricity rates, CommercialElectricityRates.com, from EIA Form EIA-861 final 2025 data.

Common questions about Riverside Public Utilities

What is the average commercial electricity rate at Riverside Public Utilities?

Riverside Public Utilities billed its commercial customers in California an average of 20.05¢ per kWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That is 23% below the California commercial average of 26.16¢. It is the utility’s commercial revenue divided by its commercial sales, so it describes the whole class and is not the rate on any one schedule.

How much is the average commercial electric bill at Riverside Public Utilities?

About $596 a month in 2025, on average use of about 2,975 kWh a month. That is Riverside Public Utilities’ commercial revenue divided by its 12,377 commercial customers. A few very large accounts pull the average up, so most businesses pay less than this.

Have Riverside Public Utilities’ commercial electricity rates gone up?

The average Riverside Public Utilities billed commercial customers rose 24% between 2015 and 2025, from 16.18¢ to 20.05¢ per kWh. The California commercial average rose 66% over the same period.

How reliable is Riverside Public Utilities’ electric service?

Riverside Public Utilities customers averaged 76 minutes without power in 2025, excluding major storms, against a 124-minute average for U.S. utilities reporting the same way (EIA).

Does Riverside Public Utilities use smart meters for businesses?

EIA counts 12,313 advanced (AMI) meters among Riverside Public Utilities’ 12,377 commercial meters in 2025, which is 99%. An advanced meter records use at least hourly, which is what makes interval data and time-varying rates possible.

Is this the rate my business will pay Riverside Public Utilities?

No. It is an average over every commercial customer, from a corner shop to a campus. What one business pays depends on its rate schedule, how much it uses and how hard it draws at its peak. The schedule code is printed on the bill, and the schedule itself is in Riverside Public Utilities’ tariff.