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

PUD No. 1 of Jefferson County reported 18,750 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 988 kWh a month on average at 13.86 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 Jefferson County ranks 25 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 Jefferson County reported an average of 442 minutes without power per customer and 3.21 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 138 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

PUD No. 1 of Jefferson County had about 314 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Washington figure across its utilities was 147 minutes. One interruption lasting 138 minutes and 3.21 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 442 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 Jefferson 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 706 residential net-metered systems on the PUD No. 1 of Jefferson County grid in 2025, with 5.5 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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

Of the 35 utilities listed for Washington, PUD No. 1 of Jefferson County is the 19th largest by homes, at roughly 0.55% of the state total. Its price of 13.86 cents per kWh is 3.87 cents above the median of 17 other public power districts in Washington (9.99 cents). Over a year, the typical PUD No. 1 of Jefferson County bill runs about $150 above the state average, with monthly use 43 kWh higher. PUD No. 1 of Jefferson County lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 706 of its residential customers use net metering, or 37.7 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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