City of Richland Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

City of Richland reported 26,340 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,200 kWh a month on average at 10.00 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 30 Washington utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, City of Richland ranks 12 from the lowest price.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), sales to ultimate customers. Price is revenue divided by sales and includes fixed charges.

EIA lists the counties where City of Richland has distribution equipment. That covers 1 county in Washington. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

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For 2025, City of Richland reported an average of 39 minutes without power per customer and 0.38 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 103 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

City of Richland had about 89 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Washington figure across its utilities was 147 minutes. One interruption lasting 103 minutes and 0.38 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 39 minute total.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), reliability schedule, measured under IEEE 1366. Utilities define events slightly differently, so compare with care.

• Time-of-use pricing. City of Richland does not report a residential time-of-use program in its 2025 EIA filing. Ask the utility, because programs change. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 775 residential net-metered systems on the City of Richland grid in 2025, with 6.2 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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City of Richland is a municipal utility based in Washington.

By residential customers, City of Richland ranks 18th of the 35 utilities that report homes in Washington, with about 0.77% of the state's homes. Its price of 10.00 cents per kWh is 1.08 cents below the median of 5 other municipal utilities in Washington (11.07 cents). Over a year, the typical City of Richland bill runs about $54 below the state average, with monthly use 255 kWh higher. City of Richland lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 775 of its residential customers use net metering, or 29.4 per 1,000 homes, against 20.4 for Washington as a whole.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data). Peers are other utilities of the same type in Washington with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

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