In Long Beach, SCE provides electricity for most Long Beach homes; Long Beach Gas & Oil is Long Beach's natural-gas utility; Long Beach Utilities Department handles Long Beach's water and sewer. The exact lineup depends on your Long Beach address — even nearby Anaheim and Santa Ana answer differently.
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Here's the quirk that trips up new Long Beach residents: your gas, water, and sewer run through providers with the city's name on them — Long Beach Gas & Oil for gas, the Long Beach Utilities Department for water and sewer — but your electricity does not. Power here comes from Southern California Edison (SCE), a regulated investor-owned utility, at every address we sampled. California gives you no electric provider to shop for: whoever holds your address holds the meter. Nothing to switch.
Long Beach grew up as an oil town — the Wilmington field and the derricks that once crowded Signal Hill and the harbor bankrolled a lot of early growth. That legacy still shows in the name of the gas provider, Long Beach Gas & Oil. As this port city spread along the coast, water and sewer service settled under the Long Beach Utilities Department, while electricity ran on Southern California Edison's much larger regional grid stretching well past the county line.
| Utility | Provider | Phone | Start service |
|---|---|---|---|
| ⚡ Electricity | SCE | (800) 655-4555 | Provider site |
| 🔥 Natural gas | Long Beach Gas & Oil | — | Look up address |
| 💧 Water | Long Beach Utilities Department | (562) 570-2300 | Provider site |
| 🚽 Sewer | Long Beach Utilities Department | (562) 570-2300 | Provider site |
Based on 12 sampled Long Beach addresses spanning ZIP codes 90802, 90803, 90804, 90805, 90806, 90807, 90808, 90810, 90813, 90814, 90815 (2026-07-20). Yours may differ — the Long Beach lookup is the tiebreaker.
Watch the city line. Signal Hill sits as its own separate city entirely ringed by Long Beach, and neighbors like Lakewood, Carson, and Seal Beach are different jurisdictions — so a block or two can change who runs your gas, water, and sewer. When in doubt, run the lookup.
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Setting up a place in Belmont Shore, downtown, or Naples? Because power, gas, and water here run through different providers, work this checklist before your first night.
At every one of the Long Beach addresses we sampled, SCE was the electric utility. The exact Long Beach provider depends on the address.
Generally no — Long Beach electric territory is fixed by address: the utility holding your Long Beach block is your utility, and at every one of sampled Long Beach addresses that was SCE — Long Beach is a one-signup town.
At every one of the Long Beach addresses we sampled, Long Beach Utilities Department was the water provider — sewer included. Other districts take over around Long Beach's edges, so check your block.
No — at every one of the sampled Long Beach addresses, Long Beach Gas & Oil was the gas utility, but plenty of Long Beach homes are all-electric and never open this account.
Southern California Edison (SCE) supplies electricity at every Long Beach address we sampled. SCE is a regulated investor-owned utility, and California has no retail electricity choice — you can't shop for a cheaper power company, because whoever's territory holds your address is your provider by default. If a community-choice program ever appears on your bill handling generation, SCE still runs the wires, reads the meter, and answers outage calls.
Plan on more than one call. At the addresses we sampled across Long Beach, natural gas comes from Long Beach Gas & Oil, while water and sewer both come from the Long Beach Utilities Department. Electricity is separate again, through SCE. Contact each provider to start service in your name, and run the lookup on your exact address first so you know you're calling the right ones.
No. Even though gas comes from Long Beach Gas & Oil and water and sewer come from the Long Beach Utilities Department, electricity is not a Long Beach service — it's Southern California Edison, the regional investor-owned utility, at every address we sampled. That trips people up, because the city's name is on three of your four utilities but not the power meter. There's no city-run electric option to sign up for, and no provider to shop against SCE.
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Find my providersLong Beach provider data comes from our address-level utility lookup engine — 12 Long Beach sample addresses spread across ZIPs 90802, 90803, 90804, 90805, 90806, 90807, 90808, 90810, 90813, 90814, 90815, refreshed 2026-07-20. Individual Long Beach addresses vary — check yours directly. Here's how we verify Long Beach provider data.