PUD No 1 of Franklin County Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

PUD No 1 of Franklin County is a public power district or political-subdivision electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 6716. In 2024 it served 27,388 bundled residential customers in Washington, and its average realised residential price was 9.68 cents per kWh: $38 million of residential revenue divided by 396,763 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, PUD No 1 of Franklin County's 2024 average prices were 7.46 cents for commercial customers (2,032 accounts) and 6.51 cents for industrial customers (332 accounts). Industrial customers paid 3.17 cents less per kWh than households, a 33% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Washington, PUD No 1 of Franklin County ranked number 18 of 40 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (27,388) and accounted for 1.03% 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 Franklin County's customers paid 2.22 cents below the Washington average (-18.7%). 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 Franklin County in 1 Washington county: Franklin. On the grid side it operates in the WECC NERC region, and reported 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 9.99 cents per kWh for PUD No 1 of Franklin County in Washington across 27,692 residential customers, 0.31 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 Benton County (36.2 miles away, 8.81 cents), City of Richland (WA) (36.2 miles away, 9.82 cents), Big Bend Electric Coop, Inc (38.8 miles away, 9.10 cents), Columbia Rural Elec Assn, Inc (42.3 miles away, 14.15 cents), and PUD No 2 of Grant County (59 miles away, 6.01 cents).