Rancho Cucamonga Municipal Utility

Rancho Cucamonga Municipal Utility (RCMU) was established to enable the City to deal with energy issues at the local level. This recently formed city-owned utility serves the Victoria Arbors Regional Mall development as well as surrounding retail and commercial development which fall within RCMU's sphere of service.

The idea to form a municipal utility was born during the California energy crisis of 2001 as a way for the City to mitigate future energy costs, as well as a means to generate additional revenue to mitigate the additional infrastructure and operational costs associated with public services benefiting the Mall. In this manner, energy costs will be stabilized for one of the City's most important commercial centers, and the net revenue that would otherwise go to stockholders of an investor-owned utility will be reinvested – via the provision of public services – to the Municipal Utility's customer base.

City Council passed a resolution on August 31, 2001 approving the formation of the Municipal Utility.

Annually, more than 72,000 megawatt-hours of electricity are distributed to our customers via 20 circuit miles of wire spread across the roughly 4 square miles serviced by RCMU. Rancho Cucamonga Municipal Utility’s historical peak demand is 14.4 megawatts, set in June 2008.

Rancho Cucamonga Municipal Utility was awarded the 2007 Safety Award – First Place – by the American Public Power Association for safe operating procedures and being incident free throughout 2007.

RCMU is a division within the Engineering Services Department and reports to the Director of Engineering Services/City Engineer.

For further information or inquiries on electric services, please contact Customer Service at (909) 477-2740 ext. 4012 or email us at RCMU.Customer@cityofrc.us.