Lewis County PUD

About Lewis County PUD

Lewis County PUD is a political subdivision serving 9 cities in Washington including Centralia, Chehalis, Fords Prairie CDP, Winlock, and Napavine. The supplier recently disclosed a total of 35,733 total customers. Roughly 85.58% are residential properties, 14.00% are commercial customers and 0.42% of these are industrial accounts. Patrons of Lewis County PUD are charged an average residential electricity rate of 10.13 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 17.02% lower than the average state rate of 12.21 cents. In 2023 the company sold 11.58% of their megawatt hours sold through wholesale channels to other electricity companies. During the same timeframe, Lewis County PUD acquired 1,135,668 megawatt hours through the wholesale market. The revenue for Lewis County PUD in 2023 from electricity sales was $91,185,000, with 89.72% coming from retail sales to end users and 4.26% from wholesale electricity sales.

Customers of the supplier pay an average monthly residential electricity bill of $142.02. This is 0.95% lower than the US average bill of $143.38. The electricity grid owned by the provider has an average of 2.94 outages per consumer a year, with outages lasting an average of 423.31 minutes. The US average for other providers is 1.44 outages per consumer and approximately 123.49 minutes each outage. The supplier generates 100.00% of their total number of megawatt hours generated, which is 190,377 megawatt hours, from sustainable fuel types. Electricity production is not part of the Lewis County PUD business model, as they purchase electricity at wholesale rates from other suppliers to then be resold to their end users.