Who We Are

Power System

LADWP works hard to bring safe, reliable, sustainable and equitable electricity for Los Angeles. 

LADWP is the nation’s largest municipal power utility with a net maximum plant capacity of 10,896 megawatts (MW) and net dependable capacity of 8,081 MW. In fiscal year 2023-24, we supplied more than 20,749 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of power for more than 1.6 million electric service customers, including nearly 6,000 in the Owens Valley. We maintain a diverse and vertically integrated power generation, transmission, and distribution system that spans five Western states, and we deliver reliable, cost-effective power to approximately four million people in Los Angeles.

Sources of Power

A pie chart with the heading “LADWP Power Mix (Calendar Year 2024)” shows that Renewables (Biomass, Solar, Wind, Geothermal, and Eligible Hydro) make up 41% of the power mix, Nuclear makes up 15%, Natural Gas makes up 30%, Coal makes up 11%, and Large Hydro makes up 3%.
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Power Reliability and Resiliency

Distribution Upgrades

In FY 2022-23, our power crews completed repairs on more than 8,046 infrastructure-related jobs. We met or exceeded our distribution equipment replacement targets for transformers and substructures as well as system growth targets for overhead and underground reconductoring and 34.5kV trunk line circuits. We are also on track to meet our FY 2023-24 targets.

In response to growing demand from the transportation and building sectors, including the expansion of electric vehicle charging infrastructure across the city, we are committed to the long-term improvement of our distribution system. Our plans include significant load relief and capacity expansion for both our 4.8 kV and 34.5 kV distribution systems, ensuring the reliable delivery of power for years to come. Additionally, LADWP is taking proactive steps to modernize our infrastructure by developing new distributing stations and introducing a new 12kV voltage level to replace aging assets, further enhancing reliability and capacity. These forward-thinking initiatives are designed to meet the needs of a rapidly evolving city, providing customers with a resilient and future-ready energy system.

Wildfire Mitigation Plan

Through LADWP’s Wildfire Mitigation Plan, we aim to safeguard communities, ensure reliable service for our customers, and support California’s broader wildfire resilience goals. Updated annually to reflect evolving risks, technologies, and regulatory requirements, the plan complies with California Public Utilities Code §8387 and is designed to prevent wildfire ignitions caused by LADWP electrical equipment, protect critical infrastructure in high fire-threat areas, ensure public and employee safety through proactive risk management, and maintain reliable electric service during extreme weather events. In 2023, our comprehensive update to the plan was reviewed by an independent evaluator, who determined it to be in compliance with all statutory requirements. Following the wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles in early 2025, LADWP is undertaking a complete review and update to the Wildfire Mitigation Plan under the direction of the Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, reflecting LADWP’s proactive, data-driven approach to managing wildfire risk.

Transmission Upgrades

LADWP has developed a Strategic Transmission Plan to identify specific transmission needs to ensure the reliability and resilience of our power system, meet the anticipated load growth from transportation and building electrification, and achieve our clean energy goals. The Strategic Transmission Plan provides a roadmap of the specific transmission projects LADWP will need to embark on over the next 20 years.

A Clean Energy Future for Los Angeles

LADWP is creating a clean energy future for Los Angeles while maintaining a reliable and cost-effective power supply for customers, and doing so in a way that leads with equity. The groundbreaking LA100 Study provided the roadmap for delivering reliable and sustainable electricity to our customers. The follow-up study—LA 100 Equity Strategies—showed how LADWP can achieve our clean energy goals in a way that benefits all Angelenos and leaves no community behind.

LA100 Equity Strategies

LA100 Equity Strategies wrapped up in 2023, offering in-depth analysis of energy-related inequities that have impacted underserved communities of Los Angeles. Under the leadership of the Board of Water and Power Commissioners, we worked with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), which also authored LA100, and UCLA to conduct LA100 Equity Strategies. The goal was to determine intentionally designed programs and policies that would ensure that L.A.’s underserved communities are not left behind or further burdened as we make significant investments to transition to a clean energy future. 

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Powered by Equity

Our commitment to ensuring we include all Angelenos as we create a clean energy future is rooted in LA100 Equity Strategies, and we are translating our policy design work to new or expanded programs that leave no community behind, collectively referred to as Powered by Equity, which was announced in 2023. We plan to add or expand equity components to a variety of clean energy programs, including transportation electrification, community solar, energy efficiency, job creation and training, utility distribution upgrades to support increased electrification, point-of-sale rebates for home cooling, and resiliency hubs integrated with solar, battery power, and electric vehicle charging stations. This is in addition to existing programs we make available to customers, such as the Comprehensive Affordable Multifamily Retrofits program, which provides financial incentives to multifamily property owners for their energy efficiency and electrification efforts.
 

Expanding Renewable Energy

Growing Local Solar

We continue to ramp up our distributed energy resources (DER), equitably, to support the transition to 100 percent clean power. DERs are small-scale energy resources connected to the local distribution system. They include local solar projects on rooftops in Los Angeles as well as battery storage, microgrids, and demand management programs employed by customers. As LADWP designs new solar programs to attract customers, we will continue to prioritize underserved communities and low-income customers to foster energy equity. To that end, we offer our Shared Solar Program to residential customers living in multifamily dwellings, who typically would not be able to access their own solar energy. LADWP also has resumed the Solar Rooftops Program, through which we will install solar panel systems on participants’ rooftops with no upfront and long-term costs.

Adopting Energy Storage

Developing over 1,000 MW of energy storage, both inside and outside the Los Angeles Basin, by 2030 is one of the elements of LADWP’s strategy to achieve a 100 percent clean energy future. Energy storage plays a critical role by increasing renewable energy integration, minimizing curtailment, shifting excess solar generation to evening and peak-demand hours, and improving overall grid reliability. To help achieve this goal, we continue to develop new energy storage projects, including the Beacon Energy Storage Center, located near several renewable energy facilities in Mojave, California. When feasible, our utility-scale solar power purchase agreements also include energy storage.

Developing Flexible Demand

LADWP offers several demand response (DR) programs to incentivize customers to adopt strategies to shift their energy usage away from the peak demand periods while lowering their electric bills. Available for residential and business customers alike, these programs are part of a larger strategy to ensure that expanding load growth does not impact grid stability and reliability while also supporting the integration of renewable energy resources.

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Electrifying Transportation

LADWP plays a vital role in converting our city’s car culture into clean, zero-emission vehicles and transit. As the city’s electric service provider, we offer incentives to encourage customers to drive electric while expanding the necessary charging infrastructure to make EVs a reliable, convenient, and affordable mode of transportation for Angelenos and visitors.
We are on track to meet our next electric transportation milestones of 45,000 commercial EV chargers and 250,000 EVs in the City of Los Angeles by 2025, providing zero-emission transportation infrastructure for the 2028 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. The city’s EV count is on the road to the goals of 120,000 chargers to support 750,000 EVs in the city by 2030.

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Investing in Energy Efficiency

Energy efficiency provides a cost-effective way to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while supporting our clean energy transition. Energy efficiency supports system reliability and resiliency while enabling customers to benefit equitably and save on their electric bill. Additionally, under-resourced communities can benefit from electrification and energy efficiency. A core component and important goal of equitable electrification is to deliver economic benefits to empower our local communities and uplift all segments of society.

Energy Efficiency Goals

We met and exceeded our target of 15 percent cumulative energy savings from 2010 through 2020, representing 3,408 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of independently verified savings—enough to offset the electricity needs of 564,500 homes and avoid over 1 million metric tons of GHG emissions. The savings from energy efficiency have helped level off peak loads over time and continue to deter the need for costly infrastructure upgrades well into the future, further enabling growth for new developments, electrification of transportation, and building electrification throughout the territory.

Building Electrification

Converting homes and other buildings from natural gas to electricity is critical to meeting California’s ambitious decarbonization goals. Electrification also helps keep rates low for customers by spreading the fixed cost across more kilowatt-hours. To support our city’s clean energy goals and provide savings for our customers, LADWP continues to play an active role with partner agencies and organizations to drive building electrification. We are committed to promoting zero-carbon new construction projects and making high-efficiency electric heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) technology more accessible and affordable to all Angelenos. LADWP has also expanded its incentive offerings to help promote electric alternatives available to all customer segments in its portfolio of energy efficiency programs.

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