In Los Angeles, LADWP provides electricity for most Los Angeles homes; SoCalGas is Los Angeles's natural-gas utility; LADWP handles Los Angeles's water and sewer. The exact lineup depends on your Los Angeles address — even nearby Long Beach and Anaheim answer differently.
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In Los Angeles you don't shop around for an electric company — California doesn't run on retail choice, so the address itself decides who serves it. Across addresses in the city, electric comes back LADWP, and water and sewer land at LADWP as well. Natural gas rides a separate line: that's SoCalGas. Practically, settling into a place here means lining up LADWP and SoCalGas — two different providers on two separate tracks.
Los Angeles grew by swallowing land — decades of annexation stitched together neighborhoods from the harbor to the Valley into one sprawling city. Its water and power reach was built to match that ambition, most famously through the aqueduct pulling water south from the Owens Valley. That legacy is why a lookup across such far-flung parts of the city keeps surfacing the same electric and water provider, LADWP, rather than a patchwork of small operators.
| Utility | Provider | Phone | Start service |
|---|---|---|---|
| ⚡ Electricity | LADWP | (800) 342-5397 | Provider site |
| 🔥 Natural gas | SoCalGas | — | Look up address |
| 💧 Water | LADWP | (800) 342-5397 | Provider site |
| 🚽 Sewer | LADWP | (800) 342-5397 | Provider site |
Based on 12 sampled Los Angeles addresses spanning ZIP codes 90002, 90015, 90016, 90023, 90024, 90028, 90041, 90731, 91311, 91342, 91364, 91601 (2026-07-20). Yours may differ — the Los Angeles lookup is the tiebreaker.
The catch is that LA's borders are ragged. Independent cities and unincorporated county pockets sit right up against — and sometimes inside — the city's outline, and once an address crosses that line the serving utilities can change. Two homes a block apart aren't guaranteed the same answer.
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Before the next Santa Ana heat spike has you cranking the AC, run this checklist so LADWP and SoCalGas are both on and in your name.
At every one of the Los Angeles addresses we sampled, LADWP was the electric utility. The exact Los Angeles provider depends on the address.
Generally no — Los Angeles electric territory is fixed by address: the utility holding your Los Angeles block is your utility, and at every one of sampled Los Angeles addresses that was LADWP — Los Angeles is a one-signup town.
At every one of the Los Angeles addresses we sampled, LADWP was the water provider — sewer included. Other districts take over around Los Angeles's edges, so check your block.
No — at every one of the sampled Los Angeles addresses, SoCalGas was the gas utility, but plenty of Los Angeles homes are all-electric and never open this account.
No — California doesn't have retail electricity choice, so there's no menu of competing electric companies to pick from. The address determines who serves it, and across Los Angeles addresses that comes back as LADWP. You can't switch to a different electric company the way you'd change a phone carrier. What you can do is confirm the exact provider for your new place by running the lookup before you move.
They're two separate companies. Electricity at Los Angeles addresses comes back as LADWP, while natural gas is a separately regulated utility — SoCalGas — running its own pipes to the home. Because they're different providers, you set them up independently; getting the lights on doesn't automatically get the gas going. If your place has gas appliances, line up both. Run the lookup to confirm what's actually at your address.
For LA addresses, the lookup returns LADWP for electric, water, and sewer, so those services trace back to the same utility for your area. Whoever holds your address is who handles the wires, the outages, and the delivery — and that doesn't change based on anything you sign up for. If you're right on the city's edge, though, confirm your address first, since a neighboring jurisdiction may put you under different providers.
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Find my providersLos Angeles provider data comes from our address-level utility lookup engine — 12 Los Angeles sample addresses spread across ZIPs 90002, 90015, 90016, 90023, 90024, 90028, 90041, 90731, 91311, 91342, 91364, 91601, refreshed 2026-07-20. Individual Los Angeles addresses vary — check yours directly. Here's how we verify Los Angeles provider data.