Benton Rural Electric Assn Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Benton Rural Electric Assn is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 1625. In 2024 it served 13,422 bundled residential customers in Washington, and its average realised residential price was 9.27 cents per kWh: $21 million of residential revenue divided by 229,481 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Benton Rural Electric Assn's 2024 average prices were 6.99 cents for commercial customers (1,645 accounts) and 6.68 cents for industrial customers (1,386 accounts). Industrial customers paid 2.59 cents less per kWh than households, a 28% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Washington, Benton Rural Electric Assn ranked number 26 of 40 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (13,422) and accounted for 0.59% 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 11.90 cents per kWh, so Benton Rural Electric Assn's customers paid 2.63 cents below the Washington average (-22.1%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Washington is 14.91 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 Benton Rural Electric Assn in 3 Washington counties: Benton, Lewis, and Yakima. On the grid side it operates in the WECC NERC region, and reported transmission and distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: BPAT.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 9.67 cents per kWh for Benton Rural Electric Assn in Washington across 13,864 residential customers, 0.40 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 Washington by service-territory centroid are PUD No 1 of Klickitat County (20.1 miles away, 12.05 cents), City of Ellensburg (WA) (49.5 miles away, 10.40 cents), PUD No 1 of Benton County (66.3 miles away, 8.81 cents), City of Richland (WA) (66.3 miles away, 9.82 cents), and City of Centralia (WA) (72.1 miles away, 9.88 cents).