Seattle City Light Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

Seattle City Light reported 472,309 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 594 kWh a month on average at 14.74 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, Seattle City Light ranks 28 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 Seattle City Light has distribution equipment. That covers 1 county 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, Seattle City Light reported an average of 129 minutes without power per customer and 0.93 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 140 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Seattle City Light sits close to the median state on outage minutes. The Washington figure across its utilities was 147 minutes. One interruption lasting 140 minutes and 0.93 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 129 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. Seattle City Light reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 158 residential customers enrolled in dynamic pricing programs of all kinds. Ask the utility which rate schedules you qualify for. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 8,695 residential net-metered systems on the Seattle City Light grid in 2025, with 64.3 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Seattle City Light is a municipal utility based in Washington.

Seattle City Light operates in the CAISO power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

Washington has 35 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Seattle City Light is 2nd by size and serves about 13.9% of the state's homes. Its price of 14.74 cents per kWh is 4.52 cents above the median of 5 other municipal utilities in Washington (10.21 cents). Seattle City Light lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 8,695 of its residential customers use net metering, or 18.4 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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