In Oakland, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. provides electricity for most Oakland homes; Pacific Gas & Electric Co. is Oakland's natural-gas utility; East Bay Municipal Utility District handles Oakland's water and sewer. The exact lineup depends on your Oakland address — even nearby San Francisco and San Jose answer differently.
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In Oakland there's no shopping around for your electric company: Pacific Gas & Electric holds the wires, and PG&E runs your gas line too, at every address we sampled across the city. Your generation may come through the county's community-choice program (East Bay Community Energy, now Ava Community Energy), but PG&E still handles delivery and every outage on your street. Water and sewer are a separate world entirely: East Bay Municipal Utility District, the regional public district, at every sampled address.
Oakland climbs from the flat estuary shoreline up into the hills, and that vertical spread shapes your service. Homes up in Montclair and the upper canyons sit in a high fire-risk zone, where PG&E's wildfire-season power shutoffs are a genuine planning item; the flats rarely feel them. On the water side, East Bay MUD pipes Sierra snowmelt across the county from its Mokelumne River system, which is why one district covers the whole city rather than a patchwork.
| Utility | Provider | Phone | Start service |
|---|---|---|---|
| ⚡ Electricity | Pacific Gas & Electric Co. | (800) 743-5000 | Provider site |
| 🔥 Natural gas | Pacific Gas & Electric Co. | (800) 743-5000 | Provider site |
| 💧 Water | East Bay Municipal Utility District | (866) 403-2683 | Provider site |
| 🚽 Sewer | East Bay Municipal Utility District | (866) 403-2683 | Provider site |
Based on 11 sampled Oakland addresses spanning ZIP codes 94601, 94602, 94603, 94605, 94606, 94607, 94609, 94611, 94612, 94619, 94621 (2026-07-20). Yours may differ — the Oakland lookup is the tiebreaker.
Watch the borders: Piedmont is its own incorporated city ringed by Oakland, and crossing the estuary into the city of Alameda puts you on Alameda's municipal electric utility, not PG&E. Nearby unincorporated county pockets can differ, so a line on the map isn't always the line on your service.
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Setting up a place in Rockridge, West Oakland, or up in the Montclair hills? Run this quick checklist before your first night so nothing's dark when you arrive.
At every one of the Oakland addresses we sampled, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. was the electric utility. The exact Oakland provider depends on the address.
Generally no — Oakland electric territory is fixed by address: the utility holding your Oakland block is your utility, and at every one of sampled Oakland addresses that was Pacific Gas & Electric Co. — Oakland is a one-signup town.
At every one of the Oakland addresses we sampled, East Bay Municipal Utility District was the water provider — sewer included. Other districts take over around Oakland's edges, so check your block.
No — at every one of the sampled Oakland addresses, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. was the gas utility, but plenty of Oakland homes are all-electric and never open this account.
For both, it's Pacific Gas & Electric. PG&E showed up as the electric utility and the gas utility at every Oakland address we sampled, which fits California's setup: there's no retail electric competition, so whoever holds your address is simply your utility. You can't swap PG&E out for another wires company. The one thing to confirm is your specific address, since edges of the city can behave differently — run it through the lookup.
Water and sewer both come from the East Bay Municipal Utility District, the regional public agency known as EBMUD. It was the water provider and the sewer provider at every Oakland address we sampled. EBMUD is its own public district rather than a city department, and its water travels in from the Sierra rather than any local source. As always, confirm your exact address with the lookup before you set anything up.
Not in the way some states let you. California has no retail electric choice, so PG&E stays your delivery utility no matter what. What Oakland does have is community-choice aggregation: by default your generation is supplied through the county program (East Bay Community Energy, now Ava Community Energy) instead of PG&E's own generation. You can opt back to PG&E generation if you prefer, but the wires, the meter, and outage response stay with PG&E either way.
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Find my providersOakland provider data comes from our address-level utility lookup engine — 11 Oakland sample addresses spread across ZIPs 94601, 94602, 94603, 94605, 94606, 94607, 94609, 94611, 94612, 94619, 94621, refreshed 2026-07-20. Individual Oakland addresses vary — check yours directly. Here's how we verify Oakland provider data.