City of Seattle (WA) Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

City of Seattle (WA) is a municipally owned electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 16868. In 2024 it served 459,964 bundled residential customers in Washington, and its average realised residential price was 14.09 cents per kWh: $467 million of residential revenue divided by 3.32 million MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, City of Seattle (WA)'s 2024 average prices were 11.77 cents for commercial customers (52,473 accounts), 10.09 cents for industrial customers (58 accounts), and 11.33 cents for transportation customers (3 accounts). Industrial customers paid 4.00 cents less per kWh than households, a 28% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Washington, City of Seattle (WA) ranked number 2 of 40 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (459,964) and accounted for 8.59% 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 City of Seattle (WA)'s customers paid 2.19 cents above the Washington average (+18.4%). 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 City of Seattle (WA) in 1 Washington county: King. On the grid side it operates in the WECC NERC region and the CAISO (California ISO) market, and reported generation, transmission, buying transmission, distribution, buying distribution, and wholesale marketing as its activities. Balancing authority code: SCL.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 14.74 cents per kWh for City of Seattle (WA) in Washington across 472,309 residential customers, 0.65 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 Puget Sound Energy Inc (18.8 miles away, 14.63 cents), Peninsula Light Company (28.4 miles away, 10.50 cents), Elmhurst Mutual Power & Light Co (33.8 miles away, 8.32 cents), Lakeview Light & Power (33.8 miles away, 9.91 cents), and City of Tacoma (WA) (36.4 miles away, 10.81 cents).