# Electricity retail sales in California

Electricity retail sales in California was 242.974 TWh in 2025. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration.

- Indicator id: `electricity_retail_sales`
- Place id: `us-state-06`
- Unit: TWh
- Definition: Electricity sold to all ultimate customers: residential, commercial, industrial and transportation, in terawatt hours (billion kilowatt hours), as reported by utilities and other retailers to the U.S. Energy Information Administration on Form EIA-861.
- Note: Retail sales only: electricity that plants and businesses generate and use themselves (direct use) is not included, so this is lower than total consumption, and it is not the same as electricity_consumption, which EIA publishes for countries. Published in megawatt hours; shown in terawatt hours. From 1990 to 2002 the all-sector total includes an "other" sector (public street lighting, other public authorities and railways); from 2003 EIA reports these sales under commercial, industrial and a new transportation sector.
- Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 annual sales to ultimate customers, all sectors, by state (HS861) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/state/)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/us-energy-information-administration
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- License: Public domain (US federal government work, attribution requested)
- Citation: U.S. Energy Information Administration. Form EIA-861 annual sales to ultimate customers, all sectors, by state (HS861). https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/state/. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/en/electricity-retail-sales/california
- API: https://invokely.ai/api/v1/series?indicator=electricity_retail_sales&place=us-state-06

| Period | TWh |
|---|---:|
| 2025 | 242.974 |
| 2024 | 245.717 |
| 2023 | 239.48 |
| 2022 | 251.869 |
| 2021 | 247.25 |
| 2020 | 250.175 |
| 2019 | 250.379 |
| 2018 | 255.224 |
| 2017 | 257.268 |
| 2016 | 256.847 |
| 2015 | 261.17 |
| 2014 | 262.585 |
| 2013 | 261.332 |
| 2012 | 259.538 |
| 2011 | 261.942 |
| 2010 | 258.531 |
| 2009 | 259.584 |
| 2008 | 268.155 |
| 2007 | 264.235 |
| 2006 | 262.959 |
| 2005 | 254.25 |
| 2004 | 252.026 |
| 2003 | 243.221 |
| 2002 | 235.213 |
| 2001 | 247.759 |
| 2000 | 244.057 |
| 1999 | 234.831 |
| 1998 | 236.434 |
| 1997 | 227.88 |
| 1996 | 218.112 |
| 1995 | 212.605 |
| 1994 | 213.684 |
| 1993 | 210.5 |
| 1992 | 213.447 |
| 1991 | 208.65 |
| 1990 | 211.093 |