Puget Sound Energy Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

Puget Sound Energy reported 1,104,338 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 863 kWh a month on average at 17.01 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, Puget Sound Energy ranks 29 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 Puget Sound Energy has distribution equipment. That covers 8 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, Puget Sound Energy reported an average of 178 minutes without power per customer and 1.10 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 162 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Puget Sound Energy had about 51 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Washington figure across its utilities was 147 minutes. One interruption lasting 162 minutes and 1.10 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 178 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. Puget Sound Energy 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 26,979 residential net-metered systems on the Puget Sound Energy grid in 2025, with 203.3 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

A private company owned by shareholders. A state commission reviews its costs and sets or approves its rates in formal rate cases. In Washington, that review is done by the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission.

Puget Sound Energy is an investor-owned utility based in Washington.

By residential customers, Puget Sound Energy ranks 1st of the 35 utilities that report homes in Washington, with about 32.4% of the state's homes. Washington has too few other investor-owned utilities with reported prices to compare Puget Sound Energy with its type, so the state average of 13.17 cents per kWh is the fairest yardstick. Puget Sound Energy lists distribution equipment in 8 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 26,979 of its residential customers use net metering, or 24.4 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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