PUD No 1 of Clark County electricity rates

It serves 219,477 residential customers in Washington. At 10.41¢ per kilowatt-hour it is one of the cheaper places to buy electricity in Washington, 30.4% under the statewide average of 14.95¢.

Its customers use more electricity than the national norm, 1,008 kilowatt-hours a month against 871, which amplifies whatever the rate does.

A public body created by the state or county, governed by an elected or appointed board rather than by shareholders. That matters because a bill is not only the cost of generating electricity: it also carries the cost of the network, and who owns that network changes how it is paid for.

In 2024 the average PUD No 1 of Clark County customer went 145 minutes without electricity across 1.47 interruptions. The median across the 941 utilities that report this is 185 minutes.

That is better than the typical American utility, though the figure includes major storm days and can move sharply from one year to the next.

3,049 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 22.23 megawatts. That works out to 13.9 installations per thousand customers, against a median of 8 across the utilities reporting it.

Adoption is above the national median, which generally tracks the retail rate more closely than it tracks sunshine. What exports are actually worth.