Modesto Irrigation District (MID) electric rates and bills
Modesto Irrigation District's 104,671 residential customers in California paid an average of 23.03¢ per kWh in 2025, for an average bill of $173.07 a month on 751 kWh.1 Over the last 12 months (Sep 2025–Aug 2026) the average was 23.54¢, and 23.67¢ in August 2026.2
EIA-861 2025 final (released October 7, 2026) and EIA's monthly utility survey through August 2026 (preliminary); next monthly update expected November 24, 2026. Averages are revenue divided by kWh, all charges included: not the rate printed in a tariff.
2 of 58 California counties served (EIA-861 2025)
A Modesto Irrigation District home paid 23.03¢ per kWh on average in 2025, well below the 37.52¢ per kWh paid by PG&E's full-service customers, yet its monthly bill of $173.071 was almost the same as a PG&E full-service bill. MID homes buy far more electricity, especially in August, and they lose very little time to outages: 36 minutes in 2025, against a California average of 345 minutes9.
What MID homes paid per kWh
The Modesto Irrigation District is a public power district: a local public agency that sells both the electricity and its delivery to all 104,6711 of its residential customers. With no supplier choice and no delivery-only group, one residential average covers every home it serves. That average is average revenue per kWh, meaning total residential revenue divided by kWh sold. It includes fixed monthly charges and any adjustments, and it is not a line on MID's rate schedule.
In calendar 2025 (EIA-861, final), MID's residential average was 23.03¢ per kWh1. Over the last 12 months, September 2025 to August 2026, it was 23.54¢ per kWh in EIA's monthly survey, whose 2026 months are preliminary. August 20263 alone came in at 23.67¢ per kWh, +1.7%2 against the same month of 2025.
That price is middling for California and high for public power. Among the 25 California utilities with 10,000 or more residential customers, MID's 2025 average was the 12th highest, 26.5% below the California average. California's public utilities as a group averaged 22.74¢ per kWh for residential customers, close to MID. Nationally, MID ranked 21st highest of 177 large utilities, whose median was 15.07¢ per kWh, and its average was 58.9% above the national average for public power1.
Between Turlock Irrigation District and PG&E
The lowest residential average among California's larger utilities in 2025 belonged to Turlock Irrigation District, at 17.40¢ per kWh, against MID's 23.03¢ per kWh. EIA's service-territory records list Turlock Irrigation District in Stanislaus County, one of MID's two counties, so the two irrigation districts serve homes in the same county. PG&E, whose full-service residential customers paid 37.52¢ per kWh1, is listed in both of MID's counties.
Source: EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2025 final. Utilities with 10,000 or more bundled (full-service) residential customers. Revenue divided by kWh sold, all charges included, EIA-861 2025 final. Darker bars have their own page. In this state, customers who buy supply from a competitive supplier are not in these averages (they pay delivery to the utility and supply to the supplier).
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| Utility | ¢/kWh |
|---|---|
| Turlock Irrigation District | 17.40¢ |
| City of Santa Clara | 17.88¢ |
| Imperial Irrigation District | 18.69¢ |
| SMUD | 18.93¢ |
| City of Redding | 18.97¢ |
| Anaheim Public Utilities | 19.37¢ |
| City of Azusa | 20.77¢ |
| City of Roseville | 21.29¢ |
| City of Palo Alto | 21.36¢ |
| City of Burbank Water and Power | 21.50¢ |
| Riverside Public Utilities | 21.94¢ |
| City of Lodi | 22.78¢ |
| City of Colton | 23.00¢ |
| Modesto Irrigation District | 23.03¢ |
| Alameda Municipal Power | 24.01¢ |
| Merced Irrigation District | 24.15¢ |
| PacifiCorp | 24.18¢ |
| City of Pasadena | 25.11¢ |
| LADWP | 26.48¢ |
| Liberty Utilities | 27.65¢ |
| California average | 31.35¢ |
| Southern California Edison | 31.48¢ |
| City of Glendale | 35.51¢ |
| PG&E | 37.52¢ |
| Bear Valley Electric Service | 41.12¢ |
| SDG&E | 45.77¢ |
These are averages for the whole customer base, not prices a household can choose between. EIA's territory records place MID in San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties, and in both at least one other utility also reports customers. Each home is served by whichever utility's lines reach its address, and MID's own service-area map, not the city or ZIP code, settles that.
Source: EIA-861 2025, service territory; Census Bureau, Cartographic boundary file, counties. EIA-861 2025 service territory: 2 counties. Counts whole counties even where the utility serves only part of one; check the utility's own service-area map for an address.
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| County | Other utilities reporting service |
|---|---|
| San Joaquin County | PG&E, City of Lodi, Lathrop Irrigation District, Port of Stockton, WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration |
| Stanislaus County | PG&E, Turlock Irrigation District, WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration |
About the same monthly bill as PG&E
MID homes used 751 kWh a month on average in 2025. California's average was 494 kWh, the lowest among the states, and PG&E's full-service homes used 464 kWh1. The US average was 874 kWh6.
Source: EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2025 final. EIA-861 2025 final. Average revenue per kWh is all charges divided by kWh; it is not a tariff rate.
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| Utility | average monthly residential use |
|---|---|
| PG&E (CA) | 464 |
| City of Lodi (CA) | 562 |
| SMUD (CA) | 663 |
| Modesto Irrigation District (CA) | 751 |
| Turlock Irrigation District (CA) | 814 |
More kWh at a lower price produced almost the same bill. MID's average residential bill in 2025 was $173.07; PG&E's full-service average was $173.951. Both were above California's all-provider average of $154.73 and the US average of $150.686. The PG&E figures cover only homes that buy both power and delivery from PG&E; homes on its wires that buy power from a community choice aggregator are a separate group, described on the PG&E page.
Source: EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2025 final. EIA-861 2025 final. Average revenue per kWh is all charges divided by kWh; it is not a tariff rate.
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| Utility | average monthly residential bill |
|---|---|
| SMUD (CA) | $125.42 |
| City of Lodi (CA) | $128.02 |
| Turlock Irrigation District (CA) | $141.66 |
| Modesto Irrigation District (CA) | $173.07 |
| PG&E (CA) | $173.95 |
2025: a higher price, a smaller bill
Between 2024 and 2025, MID's residential average rose 5.7%, from 21.78¢ per kWh to 23.03¢ per kWh. Over the same years California's average across all providers changed −1.9%8. Yet the average MID bill fell from $176.01 to $173.07 (−1.7%), because use per home dropped from 808 kWh7 to 751 kWh1 a month. The drop in use outweighed the higher price per kWh.
MID's prices are not set by the state. As the Legislative Analyst's Office explains, publicly owned utilities in California are government agencies whose rates are set by their own governing boards of local elected officials, not by the California Public Utilities Commission. MID's board decisions and current schedules are published by the district.
The chart below follows MID's average month by month. The 12-month average for September 2025 to August 2026, 23.54¢ per kWh2, was above the calendar-2025 figure; 2026 months are preliminary.
Source: EIA-861M monthly sales and revenue by utility; EIA, Electric Power Monthly / EIA-861M sales and revenue by state. Residential revenue divided by kWh in each month, as reported to EIA's monthly survey (EIA-861M; months since January 2026 preliminary).
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| Month | Modesto Irrigation District (¢/kWh) | kWh per customer | Bill per customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 2025 | 21.45¢ | 780 | $167.42 |
| February 2025 | 22.09¢ | 636 | $140.50 |
| March 2025 | 22.43¢ | 567 | $127.08 |
| April 2025 | 22.44¢ | 558 | $125.27 |
| May 2025 | 23.72¢ | 591 | $140.27 |
| June 2025 | 24.46¢ | 802 | $196.25 |
| July 2025 | 23.53¢ | 1,003 | $235.92 |
| August 2025 | 23.28¢ | 1,066 | $248.04 |
| September 2025 | 23.20¢ | 1,107 | $256.78 |
| October 2025 | 23.17¢ | 720 | $166.82 |
| November 2025 | 23.21¢ | 538 | $124.84 |
| December 2025 | 22.70¢ | 682 | $154.85 |
| January 2026 | 22.67¢ | 763 | $172.96 |
| February 2026 | 23.43¢ | 611 | $143.04 |
| March 2026 | 23.80¢ | 583 | $138.69 |
| April 2026 | 23.73¢ | 575 | $136.53 |
| May 2026 | 24.58¢ | 582 | $143.13 |
| June 2026 | 24.38¢ | 812 | $197.93 |
| July 2026 | 23.96¢ | 1,021 | $244.73 |
| August 2026 | 23.67¢ | 1,179 | $279.02 |
August sets the bill
Use per MID home over the last 12 months (September 2025 to August 2026) ran from 538 kWh in November 2025 to 1,179 kWh in August 2026, more than double. The average bill followed, from $124.84 to $279.02. PG&E's full-service homes also peaked in August 2026, at 764 kWh2.
Source: EIA-861M monthly sales and revenue by utility. kWh per residential customer in each month (EIA-861M; months since January 2026 preliminary). The table adds the average bill and price for the month.
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| Month | kWh per customer | Bill per customer | ¢/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | 1,107 | $256.78 | 23.20¢ |
| October 2025 | 720 | $166.82 | 23.17¢ |
| November 2025 | 538 | $124.84 | 23.21¢ |
| December 2025 | 682 | $154.85 | 22.70¢ |
| January 2026 | 763 | $172.96 | 22.67¢ |
| February 2026 | 611 | $143.04 | 23.43¢ |
| March 2026 | 583 | $138.69 | 23.80¢ |
| April 2026 | 575 | $136.53 | 23.73¢ |
| May 2026 | 582 | $143.13 | 24.58¢ |
| June 2026 | 812 | $197.93 | 24.38¢ |
| July 2026 | 1,021 | $244.73 | 23.96¢ |
| August 2026 | 1,179 | $279.02 | 23.67¢ |
Averaged over those 12 months, an MID home used 765 kWh and paid $179.982 a month. Monthly prices per kWh move with the season too, so a single month's average is best compared with the same month a year earlier, not with the annual figure.
Outages: a small fraction of California's average
MID customers averaged 36 minutes without power in 2025 including major events, fewer than the California average of 345 minutes, and 31 minutes excluding major event days. They had 0.43 interruptions per customer, against 1.27 statewide (IEEE 1366). PG&E's customers averaged 273 minutes9 including major events.
Source: EIA-861 2025, reliability. EIA-861 2025 final. Average revenue per kWh is all charges divided by kWh; it is not a tariff rate.
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| Utility | outage minutes per customer (all events) |
|---|---|
| Modesto Irrigation District (CA) | 36 |
| SMUD (CA) | 50 |
| Turlock Irrigation District (CA) | 62 |
| City of Lodi (CA) | 72 |
| PG&E (CA) | 273 |
Smart meters, time-of-use and rooftop solar
Every MID residential meter was an advanced (AMI) meter in 2025 (100.0%). Few homes were billed on time-varying rates: 1,040 residential customers, 1.0% of the total, were enrolled in time-of-use pricing, against 35.9% of homes across California and 13.0%10 on PG&E's wires.
MID reported 11,986 net-metered residential solar installations with 60.9 megawatts of capacity in 2025: 114.5 per 1,000 residential customers, below California's 156.0 and PG&E's 182.910. Power that panels generate and use on site is not in EIA's kWh per home, which counts only what MID sells.
Business customers and help with bills
MID's 29,752 commercial customers paid an average of 18.23¢ per kWh in 2025, below the residential average, with a monthly bill of $435.93. Its 140 industrial customers paid 13.16¢ per kWh, and across all 134,563 accounts the average was 18.42¢ per kWh1.
Households struggling with summer bills can apply for federal LIHEAP aid, which brought California $242.1 million11 in fiscal year 2026. For prices across the state and its other utilities, see electricity in California.
Modesto Irrigation District electricity: common questions
What is MID's electric rate per kWh?
MID's residential customers paid an average of 23.03¢ per kWh1 in 2025 (EIA-861, final) and 23.54¢ per kWh2 over the last 12 months, September 2025 to August 2026 (EIA-861M, 2026 months preliminary). These averages divide everything MID billed homes by the kWh they bought, so they blend fixed charges and energy charges. The separate charges are on MID's published rate schedules.
What is the average MID electric bill?
$173.07 a month in 2025, for 751 kWh1 of use. Over the 12 months to August 20263 the average was $179.98, from $124.84 in November 2025 to $279.02 in August 20262 (preliminary).
Is MID cheaper than PG&E?
Per kWh, yes: in 2025 MID's residential customers paid 23.03¢ per kWh on average and PG&E's full-service residential customers 37.52¢ per kWh. Per month the two were close ($173.07 against $173.951) because MID homes used more electricity. The address decides which utility serves a home.
Did MID raise its electric rates?
MID's residential average rose 5.7%1 from 2024 to 2025 in EIA's annual data, and the August 20263 average was +1.7%2 against the same month a year earlier (preliminary). MID's rates are set by its own board, not by the California Public Utilities Commission.
Related pages
Sources
- EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2025 final; table Sales_Ult_Cust_2025; 2025, final; released October 7, 2026. www.eia.gov
- EIA-861M monthly sales and revenue by utility; table sales_ult_cust_2025 and _2026; released October 23, 2026. www.eia.gov
- EIA, Electric Power Monthly / EIA-861M sales and revenue by state; table sales_revenue.xlsx (EPM Table 5.6.A); January 2001 to 2026-08; months since January 2026 preliminary; released October 23, 2026. www.eia.gov
- EIA-861 2025, service territory; table Service_Territory_2025; 2025, final; released October 7, 2026. www.eia.gov
- Census Bureau, Cartographic boundary file, counties; table cb_2025_us_county_5m; cb_2021_us_county_5m; 2025 (2021 for Connecticut). www.census.gov
- EIA-861 2025, average monthly bill by state; table Average_Bill_2025; 2025, final; released October 7, 2026. www.eia.gov
- EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2024 final; table Sales_Ult_Cust_2024; 2024, final (file updated December 3, 2025); released December 3, 2025. www.eia.gov
- EIA, Historical state data, annual sales, revenue and customers; table HS861 2010-.xlsx; 2010-2025, final; released October 7, 2026. www.eia.gov
- EIA-861 2025, reliability; table Reliability_2025; 2025, final; released October 7, 2026. www.eia.gov
- EIA-861 2025, advanced meters, dynamic pricing and net metering; table Advanced_Meters, Dynamic_Pricing, Net_Metering 2025; 2025, final; released October 7, 2026. www.eia.gov
- HHS, LIHEAP funding releases to states; table FY2027 first release; FY2026 final; FY2027 first release (October 9, 2026); FY2026 total; released October 9, 2026. acf.gov
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