Benton PUD

About Benton PUD

Benton PUD serves electricity to 4 cities in Washington including cities like Kennewick, Richland, Prosser, Finley CDP, and Benton City. The entity is a political subdivision. At the time of the most recent government reports, the supplier reported a total of 59,026 electricity customers signed on for their services. This total is made up of 50,882 residential customer accounts, 7,124 commercial customer accounts and 1,020 industrial properties. Benton PUD's average residential electricity price per kilowatt hour is 9.77 cents per kilowatt hour. This is 39.16% less than the nationwide average rate of 16.06 cents, which ranks the company 182nd best for average electricity price out of 2885 providers in the United States. There were a total of 1,838,441 megawatt hours sold to retail consumers in 2023 by the provider and 116,433 megawatt hours sold by way of the wholesale electricity market. During the same timeframe, Benton PUD purchased 2,021,504 megawatt hours by way of wholesale channels. In 2023, the company earned 85.12% of their revenue from retail electricity sales and 6.38% wholesale customers.

Consumers of the company pay an average residential electricity bill of $102.76. This is 26.22% below the nationwide average bill of $139.28. The supplier currently does not produce any of the electricity that they sell. Instead, they must purchase that electricity at wholesale rates and then resell it to end consumers. The electricity grid owned by the company experiences an average of 0.52 outages per customer per year, with outages lasting an average of 48.1 minutes. The national average for other suppliers is 1.44 outages per customer and about 123.49 minutes an outage.