California Climate Credit
Each year, millions of California residents receive the California Climate Credit on their electric and natural gas bills. The California Climate Credit is part of California’s efforts to fight climate change.
The Residential Climate Credit is changing in 2026! As part of a statewide mandate to support affordability, the 2026 Electric Residential Climate Credit will be distributed in high-billed months. A CPUC Proposed Decision sets August and September as the months for the large utilities, and the Proposed Decision is set for a vote of the Commissioners on April 30, 2026. Regardless of which month you receive the Credit, households will receive the same share (i.e., amount) of the benefits of California’s Cap-and-Invest Program.
For California's smaller electric utilities (Bear Valley, Liberty, and Pacific Power), the proposed schedule is April and November for 2026 and October and November for future years.
Small Business Climate Credit (April & October) and CA Industry Assistance (April) Customers remain unchanged.
2026 Electric California Climate Credit Amounts & Proposed Months
| April | May | June | July | Aug. | Sept. | Oct. | Nov. | |
| PG&E | $36.18 | $36.18 | ||||||
| SCE | $36.00 | $36.00 | ||||||
| SDG&E | $49.36 | $49.36 | ||||||
| Bear Valley | $17.52 | $17.52 | ||||||
| Liberty* | $71.98 | $71.98 | ||||||
| Pacific Power |
$111.83 | $111.83 |
*Liberty Utilities 2026’s proposed Climate Credit amount of $43.92 not yet approved; credits may change if approved.
Residential Natural Gas California Climate Credit
In 2026, the Natural Gas California Climate Credit will be distributed in April.
In 2027, the Commission has proposed the Natural Gas California Climate Credit be distributed in February.
|
2018‡ |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
Total Value Received |
|
|
PG&E |
$30 |
$25 |
$27 |
$25 | $48 | $53 | $85 | $67 | $46.26 |
$406 |
|
SDG&E |
* |
$34 |
$21 |
$18 | $43 | $43 | $59 | $54 | $32.58 |
$309 |
|
Southwest Gas |
$22 |
$25 |
$27 |
$28 | $49 | $56 | $75 | $74 | $45.57 |
$402 |
|
SoCalGas |
* |
$50 |
$26 |
$22 | $44 | $51 | $73 | $87 | $36.06 |
$390 |
Prior-Years 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.
Past Electric California Climate Credits
Values rounded to the nearest dollar; total column at right may not equal sum of values due to rounding.
Total column at right includes both annual credits, twice the sum of individual credit values in row.
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|
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
Total Value Received Per Household 2014-2025 |
|
PG&E |
$30 |
$25 |
$28 |
$17 |
$39 |
$28 |
$36 | $17 | $39 | $39 | $55 | $58 |
$823 |
|
SCE |
$40 |
$29 |
$38 |
$31 |
$36 |
$33 |
$37 | $29 | $59 | $71 | $86 | $56 |
$1,090 |
|
SDG&E |
$36 |
$30 |
$17 |
$30 |
$34 |
$31 |
$32 | $35 | $64 | $61 | $78 | $81 |
$1,047 |
|
Liberty Utilities |
$42 |
$35 |
$27 |
$23 |
$29 |
$46 |
$34 | $30 | $29 | $29 | $131 | $72 |
$1,057 |
|
Pacific Power |
$194 |
$141 |
$143 |
$107 |
$127 |
$160 |
$167 | $97 | $133 | $269 | $174 | $259 |
$3,944 |
| Bear Valley* | $47 | $33 | $32 | $35 | $295 |
*Bear Valley did not distribute a Climate Credit until 2022.