In San Francisco, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. provides electricity for most San Francisco homes; Pacific Gas & Electric Co. is San Francisco's natural-gas utility; SFPUC City Distribution Division runs San Francisco's water service. The exact lineup depends on your San Francisco address — even nearby Oakland and San Jose answer differently.
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In San Francisco, the meter decides everything. Pacific Gas & Electric turns up as both the electric and the gas utility at every address we sampled, and California doesn't let you shop power companies — whoever holds the wires holds the account. The city layers its own community-choice program, CleanPowerSF, on top for generation, so greener power can ride PG&E's lines while PG&E still runs delivery, outages, and the gas side. Household water, meanwhile, is delivered by the SFPUC City Distribution Division.
Much of the city's water starts as Sierra Nevada snowmelt, held behind the Hetch Hetchy dam in Yosemite and carried west through a gravity-fed aqueduct the city built generations ago. That heritage is why SFPUC shows up on the distribution side here — the same operation that manages the mountain supply also runs the mains under your street. On the energy side, the peninsula's dense, hilly build-out means PG&E's electric and gas lines thread through some of the oldest infrastructure on the West Coast.
San Francisco packs a startling number of distinct worlds into seven-by-seven miles — the fog rolling over Twin Peaks into the Sunset while the Mission bakes in sun a few ridges east, the Victorians of Alamo Square giving way to the towers of the Financial District. Microclimates shift by the block, and so does the character of the neighborhood you land in.
| 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 | SFPUC City Distribution Division | — | Look up address |
| 🚽 Sewer | City & County of San Francisco Municipal | — | Look up address |
Based on 12 sampled San Francisco addresses spanning ZIP codes 94108, 94110, 94112, 94114, 94118, 94121, 94122, 94123, 94124, 94131, 94132, 94134 (2026-07-20). Yours may differ — the San Francisco lookup is the tiebreaker.
San Francisco is a combined city and county, so its boundaries are unusually clean — but not airtight. Cross south into Daly City or Brisbane and water and sewer responsibility can change even where PG&E's territory continues. Anywhere near the county line, confirm the address before you assume.
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At every one of the San Francisco addresses we sampled, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. was the electric utility. The exact San Francisco provider depends on the address.
Generally no — San Francisco electric territory is fixed by address: the utility holding your San Francisco block is your utility, and at every one of sampled San Francisco addresses that was Pacific Gas & Electric Co. — San Francisco is a one-signup town.
At every one of the San Francisco addresses we sampled, SFPUC City Distribution Division was the water provider. Other districts take over around San Francisco's edges, so check your block.
No — at every one of the sampled San Francisco addresses, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. was the gas utility, but plenty of San Francisco homes are all-electric and never open this account.
At every San Francisco address we sampled, Pacific Gas & Electric is listed for both electricity and gas. California has no retail electric choice, so you can't switch to a competing power company — the utility assigned to your address is the one you get. The city's CleanPowerSF program can supply the generation portion of your electricity, but PG&E still runs the wires, handles delivery, and responds to outages.
Across the addresses we checked in San Francisco, household water is provided by the SFPUC City Distribution Division, and sewer service is handled by the City & County of San Francisco, which is city-run. Because San Francisco is a consolidated city and county, those services tend to be consistent within the limits — but the exact setup for your unit can still vary, so run your address through the lookup rather than assuming it matches a neighbor's.
CleanPowerSF is San Francisco's community-choice aggregation program. Under California's model, it can buy the electricity generation that flows to your home, while PG&E stays the company that delivers that power, maintains the lines, and restores service after an outage. So it doesn't replace PG&E — it works alongside it on the generation side. Everything about the physical connection, including gas, still runs through PG&E in San Francisco.
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Find my providersSan Francisco provider data comes from our address-level utility lookup engine — 12 San Francisco sample addresses spread across ZIPs 94108, 94110, 94112, 94114, 94118, 94121, 94122, 94123, 94124, 94131, 94132, 94134, refreshed 2026-07-20. Individual San Francisco addresses vary — check yours directly. Here's how we verify San Francisco provider data.