California Climate Credit
Every spring and fall, millions of California residents receive credits on their electric and natural gas bills identified as the “California Climate Credit.” The California Climate Credit is part of California’s efforts to fight climate change.
Usually, these credits are distributed twice a year, in April and October. Most residents receive a natural gas credit in April, and electric credits in April and October. For 2020, in order to mitigate the effects of increased residential electric bills that were likely to result due to the Governor's March 19, 2020 stay-at-home order and provide residential customers increased opportunity to invest in energy-savings products, CPUC directed most electric utilities to advance the distribution of the October credit. In 2021, CPUC returned the distribution of the electric residential California Climate Credit to the standard twice-annual April and October schedule.
2022 Residential California Climate Credit Schedules – Electric & Natural Gas
2022 Electric California Climate Credit Schedule
| April | May | June | July | Aug | Sept | Oct | |
| PG&E | $39.30 | $39.30 | |||||
| SCE | $59.00 | $59.00 | |||||
| SDG&E | $64.17 | $64.17 | |||||
| Bear Valley | $47.08 | $47.08 | |||||
| Liberty* | $29.96 | $29.96 | |||||
| Pacific Power |
$132.85 | $132.85 |
*As the 2022 amount is unapproved as of 4/1/22, Liberty will continue to distribute the 2021 approved California Climate Credit amount of $29.96 until a new amount is approved.
Past Electric California Climate Credits
Values rounded to the nearest dollar.
|
|
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 | 2021 |
Total Value Received Per Household 2014-2021 |
|
PG&E |
$30 |
$25 |
$28 |
$17 |
$39 |
$28 |
$36 | $17 |
$449 |
|
SCE |
$40 |
$29 |
$38 |
$31 |
$36 |
$33 |
$37 | $29 |
$546 |
|
SDG&E |
$36 |
$30* |
$17 |
$30 |
$34 |
$31 |
$32 | $35 |
$491 |
|
Liberty Utilities |
$42 |
$35 |
$27 |
$23 |
$29 |
$46 |
$34 | $30 |
$529 |
|
Pacific Power |
$194 |
$141 |
$143 |
$107 |
$127 |
$160 |
$167* | $97 |
$2,256 |
| Bear Valley** | **Not distributed until 2022. |
*April and October credit amounts differed.
Residential Natural Gas California Climate Credit
The 2022 Natural Gas California Climate Credit is distributed in April.
|
2018‡ |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 | 2022 |
Total Value Received Per Household 2018-2022 |
|
|
PG&E |
$30 |
$25 |
$27 |
$25 | $47.83 |
$154 |
|
SDG&E |
* |
$34 |
$21 |
$18 | $43.06 |
$116 |
|
Southwest Gas |
$22 |
$25 |
$27 |
$28 | $49.44 |
$150 |
|
SoCalGas |
* |
$50 |
$26 |
$22 | $44.17 |
$142 |
Prior-Year rounded to the nearest dollar.
*These utilities issued the 2018 credit with the 2019 credit in April 2019.
‡The 2018 PG&E and SoCalGas credits also include any 2015-2017 allowance proceeds that exceeded compliance costs over the same period. Since Southwest Gas and SDG&E did not have net proceeds exceed net compliance costs for this period, these utilities had no net proceeds to roll forward into 2018. PG&E's 2018 credit reflected proceeds accrued over the 2015-2018 period. As SoCalGas postponed the return of the 2018 credit until 2019, SoCalGas's 2019 credit was composed of proceeds accrued over the 2015-2019 period.