Benton PUD

About Benton PUD

Benton PUD serves electricity to 6 cities in Washington including cities like Kennewick, Richland, West Richland, Finley CDP, and Prosser. The entity is a political subdivision. At the time of the most recent government reports, the supplier reported a total of 55,342 electricity customers signed on for their services. This total is made up of 47,856 residential customer accounts, 6,497 commercial customer accounts and 989 industrial properties. Benton PUD's average residential electricity price per kilowatt hour is 8.82 cents per kilowatt hour. This is 35.50% less than the nationwide average rate of 13.67 cents, which ranks the company 244th best for average electricity price out of 2922 providers in the United States. There were a total of 1,739,433 megawatt hours sold to retail consumers in 2020 by the provider and 505,800 megawatt hours sold by way of the wholesale electricity market. During the same timeframe, Benton PUD purchased 2,350,406 megawatt hours by way of wholesale channels. In 2020, the company earned 81.99% of their revenue from retail electricity sales and 10.28% wholesale customers.

Consumers of the company pay an average residential electricity bill of $108.3. This is 10.48% below the nationwide average bill of $120.98. Electricity production is not part of the Benton PUD business plan, as they purchase electricity at wholesale rates and then resell to their consumers.