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

PUD No. 1 of Franklin County reported 27,692 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,214 kWh a month on average at 9.99 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 Franklin County ranks 11 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 Franklin County reported an average of 42 minutes without power per customer and 0.60 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 70 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

PUD No. 1 of Franklin County had about 85 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Washington figure across its utilities was 147 minutes. One interruption lasting 70 minutes and 0.60 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 42 minute total.

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

• Time-of-use pricing. PUD No. 1 of Franklin 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 923 residential net-metered systems on the PUD No. 1 of Franklin County grid in 2025, with 6.6 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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

Of the 35 utilities listed for Washington, PUD No. 1 of Franklin County is the 17th largest by homes, at roughly 0.81% of the state total. Its price of 9.99 cents per kWh is about the same as the median of 17 other public power districts in Washington (10.08 cents). At $121.35 a month, an average PUD No. 1 of Franklin County home pays about $37 a year less than the Washington average of $124.41, and uses 270 kWh a month more. PUD No. 1 of Franklin County lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 923 of its residential customers use net metering, or 33.3 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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