San Jose Utility Guide: Address Lookup

Your electricity comes through Pacific Gas & Electric at every San Jose address we sampled. California doesn't offer retail electric choice, so the utility that holds your address is simply your utility. Most homes also get their generation from San José Clean Energy, the city's community-choice program, unless they opt out. PG&E still owns the wires, reads the meter, and handles outages either way. Run the lookup to confirm your address.

Yes. Gas is its own regulated utility, and in San Jose that's also Pacific Gas & Electric at every address we sampled. The same company appears for both your electricity and gas, but they're regulated as separate services. There's no gas competitor to shop for here; the territory your address sits in decides it. Use the lookup to confirm exactly what's tied to your address before you move in.

Water and sewer are the part that varies. San Jose Water serves nearly all the addresses we sampled, while the City of San Jose handles water in a few areas like Evergreen and Edenvale. Sewer usually runs through Suburban Water Systems, though some addresses fall under the City instead. Because these split block by block, the only reliable way to know your provider is to run the lookup on your specific address.

For electric in San Jose, the answer is Pg&E at 99% of addresses we checked.

Run the San Jose lookup above. It returns your exact providers for each utility, with sign-up links, in about a minute.