City of Tacoma Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill Guide

City of Tacoma reported 177,554 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 919 kWh a month on average at 11.45 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 Tacoma ranks 17 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 Tacoma has distribution equipment. That covers 4 counties 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 Tacoma reported an average of 70 minutes without power per customer and 0.68 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 Tacoma had about 57 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 0.68 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 70 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 Tacoma 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 2,960 residential net-metered systems on the City of Tacoma grid in 2025, with 19.6 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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City of Tacoma is a municipal utility based in Washington.

Washington has 35 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. City of Tacoma is 6th by size and serves about 5.2% of the state's homes. Among 5 other municipal utilities in Washington, the median price is 10.21 cents per kWh, so City of Tacoma at 11.45 cents is 1.23 cents above its peers. At $105.14 a month, an average City of Tacoma home pays about $231 a year less than the Washington average of $124.41, and uses 26 kWh a month less. City of Tacoma lists distribution equipment in 4 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 2,960 of its residential customers use net metering, or 16.7 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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