PUD No. 1 of Cowlitz County Rates, Bills and Service Area

PUD No. 1 of Cowlitz County reported 48,849 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,296 kWh a month on average at 9.23 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, PUD No. 1 of Cowlitz County ranks 6 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.

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For 2025, PUD No. 1 of Cowlitz County reported an average of 116 minutes without power per customer and 0.93 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 125 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

PUD No. 1 of Cowlitz County had about 11 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Washington figure across its utilities was 147 minutes. One interruption lasting 125 minutes and 0.93 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 116 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. PUD No. 1 of Cowlitz County 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 554 residential net-metered systems on the PUD No. 1 of Cowlitz County grid in 2025, with 5.3 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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PUD No. 1 of Cowlitz County is a public power district based in Washington.

Of the 35 utilities listed for Washington, PUD No. 1 of Cowlitz County is the 8th largest by homes, at roughly 1.4% of the state total. At $119.62 a month, an average PUD No. 1 of Cowlitz County home pays about $57 a year less than the Washington average of $124.41, and uses 352 kWh a month more. PUD No. 1 of Cowlitz County lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 554 of its residential customers use net metering, or 11.3 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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