Portland General Electric Co Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Portland General Electric Co is an investor-owned electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 15248. In 2024 it served 828,857 bundled residential customers in Oregon, and its average realised residential price was 18.19 cents per kWh: $1,406 million of residential revenue divided by 7.73 million MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Portland General Electric Co's 2024 average prices were 13.87 cents for commercial customers (109,268 accounts), 8.85 cents for industrial customers (4,257 accounts), and 12.06 cents for transportation customers (1 accounts). Industrial customers paid 9.34 cents less per kWh than households, a 51% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Oregon, Portland General Electric Co ranked number 1 of 24 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (828,857) and accounted for 39.11% of the state's residential electricity sales in 2024, measured in MWh sold or delivered rather than in customers. The state-wide average realised residential price in 2024, computed from the same EIA file, was 14.70 cents per kWh, so Portland General Electric Co's customers paid 3.49 cents above the Oregon average (+23.7%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Oregon is 16.32 cents per kWh (June 2026, Electric Power Monthly); that is a different, more recent measure across all utilities and is not directly comparable with a 2024 annual average.

EIA's service-territory file places Portland General Electric Co in 7 Oregon counties: Clackamas, Columbia, Marion, Multnomah, Polk, Washington, and Yamhill. On the grid side it operates in the WECC NERC region and the CAISO (California ISO) market, and reported generation, transmission, buying transmission, distribution, wholesale marketing, and retail marketing as its activities. Balancing authority code: PGE.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 18.79 cents per kWh for Portland General Electric Co in Oregon across 840,457 residential customers, 0.60 cents higher than the 2024 final figure. Early-release data has not been validated by EIA and must not be aggregated; the 2024 final figures remain the reference on this page until the 2025 final file is published.

The nearest other utilities in Oregon by service-territory centroid are City of Forest Grove (19.5 miles away, 9.93 cents), City of McMinnville (OR) (22.3 miles away, 7.56 cents), Salem Electric (OR) (29.7 miles away, 11.02 cents), Columbia River Peoples Ut Dist (29.8 miles away, 9.27 cents), and Tillamook Peoples Utility Dist (39.3 miles away, 11.82 cents).