SCE and PG&E rate filings: what’s pending for 2026–2027

• Last updated August 17, 2026, from the utilities’ Q2 2026 filings to the CPUC. Next update expected when Q3 2026 filings publish.
• SCE and PG&E are moving in opposite directions. On their own submitted figures, SCE’s residential average rate falls to 30.85¢/kWh by end-2027 while PG&E’s rises to 35.14¢.
• PG&E’s largest pending item is the 2027 GRC Phase 1, an annual revenue requirement of about $11.7 billion.
• Everything below is what the utility filed, not what the CPUC approved. Pending requests are frequently reduced.
• For the causes behind a decade of increases rather than the current filings, see our guide to why SCE rates are high.

Every California investor-owned utility files a Cost and Rate Tracking Tool with the CPUC each quarter, under Ordering Paragraph 4 of decision D.22-08-023. Those filings separate authorized revenue requirements from pending ones and show what each would do to rates and to a typical bill.

That is the source for this page. Scope and limits, stated up front: this edition covers SCE and PG&E only — SDG&E files on the same schedule and is not yet included — and it is a quarterly snapshot of the Q2 2026 filings, not a live feed. It lists named proceedings, the years they affect, and the rate effect each utility projects. It does not currently carry decision dates, effective dates or a per-proceeding bill impact, because those are not in the summary sheets we read. Three cautions travel with every number here:

• Filed is not approved. These are the utilities’ own submissions. The CPUC routinely authorises less than requested.
• Year-end and current-year figures are different bases. Where we compare utilities we use the same basis for both.
• Illustrative bills use fixed assumptions. SCE’s residential figures below assume Schedule D, Basic, single family, baseline region 9 warm, 500 kWh a month, with the California Climate Credit included.

Two things stand out. The 2026 authorized rate is 2.8% below the rate that took effect on January 1, so on SCE’s own numbers this is a year of slight decline rather than increase. And the gap between “authorized” and “with all pending granted in full” is 0.02% — the pending items in this particular quarter are small relative to the base.

The 2027 General Rate Case Phase 1 dominates everything else on the list by roughly two orders of magnitude. If you follow only one California rate proceeding into 2027, that is the one.

Compared on the same basis — year-end, with all pending requests granted — the two largest utilities finish 2026 within a tenth of a cent of each other and then separate. On their own filings, SCE trends down through 2027 while PG&E trends up by roughly 8.6% over the same period.

This is a comparison we computed from the two filings; neither utility presents it. Treat it as a signal about what is queued in each territory, not as a forecast of what customers will pay — the CPUC has not ruled on these requests.

Quarterly filings are a narrow window. For scale, the CPUC’s Public Advocates Office reports that residential average rates rose 101% at SCE, 97% at SDG&E and 69% at PG&E between January 2016 and June 2026. Measured from 2014 the increases are 117% at SDG&E, 97% at SCE and 93% at PG&E, against consumer price inflation of 42%.

The same office names the primary statewide drivers: wildfire mitigation and wildfire liability costs, transmission and distribution investment, and rooftop solar incentives. Wildfire-related revenue requirements alone reached $3.97 billion at PG&E (19% of its total), $2.69 billion at SCE (14%) and $676 million at SDG&E (14%) as of January 2026.

• What the CPUC will approve. Every pending figure here is a request. Authorised amounts are frequently lower.
• Your rate. These are bundled residential averages on fixed assumptions, not your rate plan, baseline region or usage.
• Timing within a year. Rate changes take effect on specific dates set by decision; annual averages hide that.
• Municipal utilities. LADWP, SMUD and other municipals do not file with the CPUC and are not in this tracker.

Figures on this page come from the primary sources below and, where noted, from Cali Energy calculations using the stated assumptions. Rates, incentives, and program terms change; each was verified August 17, 2026.

1. CPUC — Quarterly Revenue Request Reports (Cost and Rate Tracking Tool filings)
2. CPUC Public Advocates Office — Q2 2026 Electric Rates Report (PDF)
3. EIA — Electric Power Monthly, Table 5.6.A