PUD No 1 of Benton County Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)
Political Subdivision|EIA utility 1579|Washington|Bundled
In 2024, PUD No 1 of Benton County's residential customers paid an average of 8.81 cents per kWh: $65 million of revenue over 732,971 MWh of sales across 50,072 bundled residential customers, as reported to EIA on Form 861.
How the 8.81c figure is calculated
8.81c/kWh = $64,591k revenue / 732,971 MWh x 100. This is EIA's average realised price for 2024: everything PUD No 1 of Benton County billed its residential customers (energy, delivery, fuel and rider charges, fixed charges) divided by the kilowatt-hours it sold. It is not a tariff rate, and a 2024 annual average will differ from a current bill. For a 1,000 kWh month at this average, the energy cost works out to about $88 before taxes.
About PUD No 1 of Benton County's 2024 electricity prices
PUD No 1 of Benton County is a public power district or political-subdivision electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 1579. In 2024 it served 50,072 bundled residential customers in Washington, and its average realised residential price was 8.81 cents per kWh: $65 million of residential revenue divided by 732,971 MWh of residential sales.
Across the other sectors, PUD No 1 of Benton County's 2024 average prices were 6.93 cents for commercial customers (6,770 accounts) and 5.57 cents for industrial customers (985 accounts). Industrial customers paid 3.24 cents less per kWh than households, a 37% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.
Within Washington, PUD No 1 of Benton County ranked number 8 of 40 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (50,072) and accounted for 1.90% 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 PUD No 1 of Benton County's customers paid 3.09 cents below the Washington average (-26.0%). 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 PUD No 1 of Benton County in 1 Washington county: Benton. On the grid side it operates in the WECC NERC region, and reported transmission, buying transmission, distribution, buying distribution, wholesale marketing, and retail marketing as its activities. Balancing authority code: BPAT.
EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 9.13 cents per kWh for PUD No 1 of Benton County in Washington across 50,835 residential customers, 0.32 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 City of Richland (WA) (0 miles away, 9.82 cents), PUD No 1 of Franklin County (36.2 miles away, 9.68 cents), Columbia Rural Elec Assn, Inc (56.1 miles away, 14.15 cents), PUD No 1 of Klickitat County (59.1 miles away, 12.05 cents), and Benton Rural Electric Assn (66.3 miles away, 9.27 cents).
| Sector | Customers | Sales (MWh) | Revenue ($k) | Avg c/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 50,072 | 732,971 | 64,591 | 8.81 |
| Commercial | 6,770 | 564,214 | 39,105 | 6.93 |
| Industrial | 985 | 511,637 | 28,518 | 5.57 |
Counties served in Washington (1)
From the EIA-861 Service Territory file; a listed county can be served in part only.
2025 early release (preliminary, not validated by EIA)
Residential price in Washington: 9.13c/kWh (+0.32c vs 2024 final), 50,835 residential customers; commercial 7.24c; industrial 5.86c. Published 4 August 2026. EIA marks this file "not fully edited, use with caution"; the 2024 final figures above remain the reference.
Nearby and comparable utilities in Washington
- EIA utility number
- 1579
- Ownership type
- Political Subdivision
- Data year
- 2024 final (EIA-861)
- Primary state
- Washington
- Service type
- Bundled (Part A)
- Bundled residential customers (WA, price basis)
- 50,072
- Residential accounts served (WA)
- 50,072
- All accounts, all sectors (WA)
- 57,827
- Residential price, 2024
- 8.81 c/kWh
- Commercial price, 2024
- 6.93 c/kWh
- Industrial price, 2024
- 5.57 c/kWh
- Residential sales
- 732,971 MWh
- Residential revenue
- $65 million
- Rank in Washington by residential accounts served
- 8 of 40
- Share of Washington residential sales (MWh, not customers)
- 1.90%
- Washington average, 2024
- 11.90 c/kWh
- Counties served (WA)
- 1
- NERC region
- WECC
- Balancing authority
- BPAT
- Reported activities
- Transmission, Buying Transmission, Distribution, Buying Distribution, Wholesale Marketing, Retail Marketing
- 2025 early release (preliminary)
- 9.13 c/kWh
- Change vs 2024 final
- +0.32 c/kWh
- Registry status
- Reported on Form EIA-861 for 2024
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Bill Diagnostic ->Time-of-Use Guide ->Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 Annual, 2024 final data (public domain), retrieved 28 August 2026; prices are average realised revenue per kWh, not tariffs. Final 2024 file f8612024.zip (released 3 December 2025) from the EIA-861 detailed data files. Preliminary 2025 figures come from the early-release file f8612025er.zip (4 August 2026), which EIA has not yet validated; they are labelled as such wherever shown and never mixed into a final figure.
Method: cents per kWh = revenue (thousand dollars) divided by sales (megawatthours), times 100. Customer counts, sales and revenue are the utility's own annual survey responses by state and sector. Bundled = energy plus delivery from one utility; delivery-only = the wires charge for customers who buy energy from a competitive supplier; energy-only = a competitive supplier's energy charge without delivery. County lists come from the EIA-861 Service Territory file; territory centroids used for "nearby utilities" are unweighted means of Census 2023 county centroids. EIA content is in the public domain (EIA copyright and reuse statement); the EIA logo is not used. Corrections: [email protected].