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Peninsula Light Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

Average rate and bill, service area, reliability and rate options for this utility, taken from its 2025 filing with the EIA.

Reviewed Data: EIA Form EIA-861, released October 7, 2026

Independent profile. Kilowatt Atlas is not affiliated with Peninsula Light, does not use its logo or branding and cannot take payments, start service or look up accounts. Figures come from public federal data for 2025.

Residential customers

36 thousand

35,595 homes

Average price

11.30 cents

Washington average 13.17

Average bill

$138.35

Per month at 1,224 kWh

Price rank

16 of 30

Lowest to highest in Washington

Peninsula Light rates and average bill

Peninsula Light reported 35,595 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,224 kWh a month on average at 11.30 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, Peninsula Light ranks 16 from the lowest price.

Peninsula Light compared with Washington and the United States
AverageCents per kWhkWh per monthMonthly bill
Peninsula Light11.301,224$138.35
Washington (all utilities)13.17945$124.41
United States17.23874$150.68

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.

Service area

EIA lists the counties where Peninsula Light has distribution equipment. That covers 2 counties in Washington. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

Washington (2 counties)

Kitsap, Pierce

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Reliability

For 2025, Peninsula Light reported an average of 98 minutes without power per customer and 1.08 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 91 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Peninsula Light had about 30 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Washington figure across its utilities was 147 minutes. One interruption lasting 91 minutes and 1.08 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 98 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.

Rate options and rooftop solar

  • Time-of-use pricing. Peninsula Light 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 359 residential net-metered systems on the Peninsula Light grid in 2025, with 3.2 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

Who owns and regulates it

Owned by the members it serves. An elected board sets the rates, and members may receive capital credits when the co-op has margins to return.

For questions about state consumer protections, see the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission.

Peninsula Light is an electric cooperative based in Washington.

Peninsula Light compared with Washington

Washington has 35 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Peninsula Light is 13th by size and serves about 1.0% of the state's homes. Its price of 11.30 cents per kWh is 1.66 cents above the median of 8 other cooperatives in Washington (9.64 cents). Peninsula Light lists distribution equipment in 2 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 359 of its residential customers use net metering, or 10.1 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.

Other Washington utilities

Utilities in Washington close in size to Peninsula Light
UtilityTypeHomesCents per kWh
Peninsula LightCooperative35,59511.30
PUD No. 1 of Chelan CountyPublic power district42,5713.78
PUD No. 1 of Grays Harbor CountyPublic power district40,11612.69
PUD No. 3 of Mason CountyPublic power district34,37814.45
Kootenai Electric CooperativeCooperative31,09713.43
PUD No. 1 of Clallam CountyPublic power district30,93412.14

See every one on the electric companies in Washington page.

Official site and where to get help

Kilowatt Atlas is not Peninsula Light and does not take payments, start service or manage accounts. To pay a bill, report an outage or start service, use the website, app or phone number printed on your bill. Be careful with search ads and lookalike sites that offer to pay your bill for a fee.

Peninsula Light questions

What is the average residential electric rate for Peninsula Light?

Peninsula Light residential customers on bundled service paid an average of 11.30 cents per kWh in 2025, with average use of 1,224 kWh a month and an average bill of $138.35 (EIA Form EIA-861). The Washington average was 13.17 cents.

How many customers does Peninsula Light have?

EIA reports about 35,595 residential customers for Peninsula Light in 2025.

Who regulates Peninsula Light?

Owned by the members it serves. An elected board sets the rates, and members may receive capital credits when the co-op has margins to return. See the regulator for Washington on the Washington state page.

How reliable is Peninsula Light?

For 2025, Peninsula Light reported an average of 98 minutes of outage per customer and 1.08 interruptions per customer, excluding major event days (IEEE 1366). Utilities measure outages in slightly different ways, so compare with care.

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