Utility / owner / operatorWAMunicipally-owned utilityHow EIA classifies an organization, such as a public utility, cooperative or investor-owned company.Definition ↗Consumer-ownedUtilities owned by the public they serve: municipal, cooperative, public utility district and other political subdivisions, state and federal. A grouping the atlas defines from EIA's owner types.Definition ↗

Seattle City Light

Listed by EIA as “City of Seattle - (WA)”.

About this record

Operates 7 plants (2,046.2 MW); owns 2,046.2 MW share-weighted; sells retail electricity.

OperatorOwnerRetail seller

2024 inventory

Operated nameplate capacity, operating generatorsFull nameplate MW of operating generators at plants this organization runs, including shares held by other owners.Definition ↗
2,046.2MW
Source & method

Sum of operating generator nameplate MW at plants where this organization is the reported operator

2024 inventory · reported · derived · valid · final

7 of 7 plants included.

Reported operating capacity; partial plant/unit coverage is marked

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Owned nameplate capacity, operating generatorsOperating generator nameplate MW multiplied by this organization’s ownership share, once per generator. This can include plants another organization operates.Definition ↗
2,046.2MW
Source & method

Sum over operating generators of nameplate MW x this organization's ownership fraction (reported schedule or EIA-860 schedule-4 default)

2024 inventory · reported · derived · valid · final

6 of 6 plants included.

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Example: an operating 100 MW generator with a 25% ownership share contributes 25 MW to owned capacity. Its operator counts the full 100 MW. Neither quantity establishes who buys its electricity.

Operates

Operating MWFull operating nameplate capacity at plants this organization runs, including shares held by other owners.Definition ↗

Owns

Share-weighted MWAn organization with a reported share of a generator. Owned MW applies that share to operating nameplate capacity; it does not establish who buys the output.Definition ↗

Disclosed supply · Washington fuel mixA supplier’s reported sources of electricity sold to Washington customers, grouped by fuel.Definition ↗

CY2024 · Washington sales
Washington retail sales disclosed
9,416,787MWh
2024
Source & method

Washington Fuel Mix Disclosure: total MWh across fuel categories for the claimant's Washington customers, including line losses, for the report year

2024 calendar year · reported · direct · valid · final

15 of 15 native rows included.

Washington customers only for multi-state utilities; includes line losses

Claimant ID=95

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  • Hydro77.5% · 7,295,920 MWh
  • Wind10.5% · 990,706 MWh
  • Nuclear5.8% · 548,930 MWh
  • Market5.3% · 502,119 MWh
  • Biogas0.8% · 79,112 MWh

Through BPA: 45.2% of sales; unspecified purchases: 5.3%. Filed as claimant “Seattle City Light”.

By report year MWh and shares of Washington retail sales including losses; not generation, not a compliance finding

Each year as Commerce's fuel-mix system holds it: MWh and shares of the utility's Washington retail sales including line losses, never generation and never a compliance finding. Years before CY2018 are Commerce's restatement under the 2019 method, not the disclosure published for the year; no change is taken across that break.

Disclosed supply by report year
Report yearWashington retail sales · MWhMix · share of Washington salesThrough BPA · shareUnspecified · share
CY2018 onUnspecified power is disclosed as its own category, as the statute has required since ESHB 1428 (2019); Commerce's statutory aggregate carries an unspecified row from CY2018. CY2022-Aggregate Fuel Mix Time Series.xlsx ↗ (Info!A10; Info!A16)
CY20249,416,787 MWh Hydro 77.5% · Wind 10.5% · Nuclear 5.8% 45.2% 5.3%
CY20239,578,981 MWh Hydro 78.3% · Wind 8.2% · Market 7.9% 41.4% 7.9%
CY20229,790,557 MWh Hydro 88.0% · Wind 5.2% · Nuclear 4.2% 37.9% 1.5%
CY20219,502,281 MWh Hydro 86.2% · Nuclear 4.6% · Wind 4.5% 42.3% 3.5%
CY20209,188,112 MWh Hydro 86.1% · Wind 5.1% · Nuclear 5.0% 45.6% 2.5%
CY20199,509,607 MWh Hydro 83.5% · Market 6.4% · Nuclear 5.2% 45.2% 6.4%
CY20189,647,588 MWh Hydro 85.9% · Wind 6.8% · Nuclear 4.8% 45.0% 1.4%
Before CY2018: restatedCommerce's current system run over what utilities reported for a year before CY2018. The disclosure published for that year followed the old law, which required Commerce to assign fuel shares to unspecified power; this run keeps unspecified power as its own Market category, and Commerce's statewide totals for these years differ from the statutory reports. Not the label customers received, and not comparable with CY2018 on. CY2022-Aggregate Fuel Mix Time Series.xlsx ↗ (Info!A10; Info!A16)
CY20179,946,405 MWh Hydro 88.6% · Market 4.7% · Nuclear 4.2% 48.0% 4.7%
CY20169,671,673 MWh Hydro 86.8% · Nuclear 5.1% · Wind 3.9% 45.6% 2.9%
CY20159,662,031 MWh Hydro 85.3% · Market 5.5% · Nuclear 4.7% 46.1% 5.5%
CY20149,678,044 MWh Hydro 87.7% · Nuclear 4.8% · Wind 3.7% 45.9% 2.7%

Washington State Department of Commerce, Fuel Mix Disclosure CY2024 (report 2026-02-05), data extract · Commerce's own Fuel Mix Disclosure folder (reports and data extracts, CY2014–CY2024) ↗

Declared resources by plant (33)

Categories and shares as Commerce computed them from declared resources, the BPA system mix (BPA's own mix applied to BPA deliveries, remainder unspecified) and unspecified purchases; a declared resource needs ownership or an auditable contract and its REC; renewable power without the REC counts as unspecified. Not an emissions accounting.

Carbon allowances · no-cost allocationAn emissions allowance Washington assigns to an eligible utility without charge. It is not measured emissions.Definition ↗

Cap-and-investWashington’s program that limits covered greenhouse gas emissions and requires allowances for them.Definition ↗ period 1 · t CO2e
No-cost carbon allowances
403,397t CO2e
2023 calendar year
Source & method

Ecology's Electric Utility Allowance Allocation Schedule under WAC 173-446-230: allowances allocated at no cost to a CETA-obligated electric utility for the calendar year, one allowance = one metric ton of CO2 equivalent. An allocation computed from Ecology's forecast of the utility's Washington retail load and resource supply, not measured emissions and not a cap on the utility

2023 calendar year · reported · direct · valid · final

sheet AllowanceAllocation; Seattle City Light; 2023

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No-cost carbon allowances
395,506t CO2e
2024 calendar year
Source & method

Ecology's Electric Utility Allowance Allocation Schedule under WAC 173-446-230: allowances allocated at no cost to a CETA-obligated electric utility for the calendar year, one allowance = one metric ton of CO2 equivalent. An allocation computed from Ecology's forecast of the utility's Washington retail load and resource supply, not measured emissions and not a cap on the utility

2024 calendar year · reported · direct · valid · final

sheet AllowanceAllocation; Seattle City Light; 2024

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No-cost carbon allowances
383,069t CO2e
2025 calendar year
Source & method

Ecology's Electric Utility Allowance Allocation Schedule under WAC 173-446-230: allowances allocated at no cost to a CETA-obligated electric utility for the calendar year, one allowance = one metric ton of CO2 equivalent. An allocation computed from Ecology's forecast of the utility's Washington retail load and resource supply, not measured emissions and not a cap on the utility

2025 calendar year · reported · direct · valid · final

sheet AllowanceAllocation; Seattle City Light; 2025

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No-cost carbon allowances
399,708t CO2e
2026 calendar year
Source & method

Ecology's Electric Utility Allowance Allocation Schedule under WAC 173-446-230: allowances allocated at no cost to a CETA-obligated electric utility for the calendar year, one allowance = one metric ton of CO2 equivalent. An allocation computed from Ecology's forecast of the utility's Washington retail load and resource supply, not measured emissions and not a cap on the utility

2026 calendar year · reported · direct · valid · final

sheet AllowanceAllocation; Seattle City Light; 2026

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No-cost allowances at the last auction price
15,788,466USD
2026 calendar year
Source & method

The utility's no-cost allocation for the year multiplied by the settlement price of the most recent quarterly Cap-and-Invest auction. An illustration of scale, not revenue received: a utility consigns only part of its allocation, the price changes every quarter, and the proceeds of any sale must go back to customers

2026 calendar year · reported · derived · valid · final

2026 allocation at the $39.50 settlement price of auction #15 on 2026-09-02

auction #15 2026-09-02; Seattle City Light; 2026

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At the settlement price of $39.50 per allowance from auction #15 on 2026-09-02 (Ecology’s summary report ↗), where 3,484,205 allowances were sold on behalf of consigning entities statewide. What the allocation would fetch at one auction's price. Utilities consign part of their allowances to these auctions and must return the proceeds to customers; the rest they hold for compliance or bank.

Allocated to “Seattle City Light” on Ecology’s schedule, filed as consumer-owned utility. A utility cannot sell these allowances to another company: it uses them for compliance, banks them, transfers them to an eligible generator, or consigns them to a quarterly auction, and the proceeds must go back to customers.

How Ecology computed each year
YearForecast WA load (MWh)Forecast supplyAllowances (t CO2e)Forecast filed in
20239,240,048MWhBonneville Power Administration 41.0% · Renewable or non-emitting 55.0% · Unspecified market purchases 4.0%403,397t CO2eIRP
20249,164,712MWhBonneville Power Administration 41.0% · Renewable or non-emitting 55.0% · Unspecified market purchases 4.0%395,506t CO2eIRP
20259,219,611MWhBonneville Power Administration 43.6% · Renewable or non-emitting 51.4% · Unspecified market purchases 5.0%383,069t CO2eBPA
20269,583,151MWhBonneville Power Administration 45.7% · Renewable or non-emitting 49.3% · Unspecified market purchases 5.0%399,708t CO2eBPA

Supply shares are Ecology’s forecast for the allocation, taken from the utility’s own filing. They are not the disclosed fuel mix above, which reports what was actually sold.

An allocation of allowances, not a measurement of emissions and not a cap on the utility. Ecology computes it from its forecast of the utility's Washington retail load and resource supply, and reissues the schedule as forecasts and the BPA emission factor change; the supply shares here are that forecast, not the disclosed fuel mix.

Money · FERC Form 1The annual financial report large investor-owned utilities file with the federal energy regulator.Definition ↗

FERC Form 1: not a respondent (public power, cooperative, federal or non-utility); checked PUDL v2026.9.0 respondent list 2026-09-18

Federal supply (BPA)

BPA customer 10349 ·checked 2026-09-29

What BPA sets (products, high water marks, demand quantities and forecasts, from BPA's own workbooks and letters), what the utility reports paying, and Washington's disclosure attribution beside them: separate quantities with separate periods, none derived from another, except the price per MWh, badged derived: the utility's BPA dollars over its BPA energy in MWh for the same period, from one document.

Supplier: Bonneville Power Administration . BPA lists this utility as “Seattle City Light” (Final 2026 RHWM outputs ↗, RHWM!C106).

Product

  1. Slice/BlockA BPA power product that delivers planned amounts rather than following the customer's load: a Block of fixed amounts together with a Slice, a share of the federal system's output. BPA's customer products list writes it Slice.Definition ↗ · Regional Dialogue contract Seattle City Light 2025 Financial Statements ↗ Note 20, Long-Term Purchased Power, Exchanges, and Transmission, Bonneville Power Administration, page 76 (PDF page 78) (printed “the Block and Slice Power Sales Agreement”)
    Oct 2011–Sep 2017
  2. Block · Regional Dialogue contract Seattle City Light 2025 Financial Statements ↗ Note 20, Long-Term Purchased Power, Exchanges, and Transmission, Bonneville Power Administration, page 76 (PDF page 78) (printed “BPA's Block product”) · Customer Products List (2022-12-30) ↗ page 4, row 136 · Customer Products List (2025-10-01) ↗ page 4, row 135
    Oct 2017–Sep 2028
  3. Slice/BlockA BPA power product that delivers planned amounts rather than following the customer's load: a Block of fixed amounts together with a Slice, a share of the federal system's output. BPA's customer products list writes it Slice.Definition ↗ · Provider of Choice contract Seattle City Light 2026A Official Statement ↗ Power Resources and Cost of Power, BPA Power Sales Agreements and Current Power Supply Rates, page B-28 (PDF page 90) (printed “BPA's “Slice/Block” product”)
    Oct 2028–Sep 2044

What BPA sets RHWMThe most power, in average megawatts, a BPA preference customer may buy at the Tier 1 rate in each year of a rate period, set in a BPA process before each rate period from the customer's Contract High Water Mark. A cap on eligibility, not a delivery, a purchase or a bill.Definition ↗ and CHWMA BPA customer's maximum eligibility for power at the Tier 1 rate under its contract, in average megawatts. Regional Dialogue CHWMs date from 2011; the Provider of Choice CHWMs, calculated once in fiscal 2026 and published final on 2026-05-28, govern contracts delivering from October 2028. Not a current delivery right.Definition ↗: caps on eligibility, not deliveries or purchases

Rate Period High Water Mark for the FY 2026-2028 rate period
526.931MWa
FY2026–FY2028 rate period (Oct 2025–Sep 2028)
Source & method

The most the customer may buy at the Tier 1 rate in each year of the rate period, set in BPA's RHWM process; a cap on eligibility, not a delivery or a purchase

FY2026–FY2028 rate period (Oct 2025–Sep 2028) · reported · direct · valid · final

scl-rhwm-fy2026-2028; Final 2026 RHWM outputs; RHWM!S106

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Regional Dialogue Contract High Water Mark as used for the FY 2026-2028 RHWMs
531.727MWa
FY2026–FY2028 rate period (Oct 2025–Sep 2028)
Source & method

The Regional Dialogue CHWM from BPA's final CHWMs of 2011-05-19 as adjusted since (RHWM sheet footnote *), from which the rate period's RHWM is set

FY2026–FY2028 rate period (Oct 2025–Sep 2028) · reported · direct · valid · final

scl-chwm-rd-2026; Final 2026 RHWM outputs; RHWM!F106

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Provider of Choice Contract High Water Mark, final as published 2026-05-28
569.617MWa
Oct 2028–Sep 2044
Source & method

BPA's one-time FY 2026 calculation from FY 2023 PF-eligible load and a base allowance of the 2024 RHWM, with its headroom, conservation, new-resource, load-growth and proportional-share adjustments (Calculation!I2:N2): the maximum the customer may buy at the Tier 1 rate over the Provider of Choice contract period, not a current delivery right

Oct 2028–Sep 2044 · reported · direct · valid · final

Final: BPA declined the one dispute filed (another customer's) on 2026-05-28 and will not revisit the FY 2026 calculation, though CHWMs may be adjusted in later rate periods under the contracts (CHWM Implementation Policy, 2025-08-14, pages 2-3). The period's end is the utility's: its 2026A official statement says the next Power Sales Agreement “will be in place from October 1, 2028 through September 30, 2044” (page B-28, PDF page 90)

scl-chwm-poc-final; Provider of Choice FY 2026 CHWM Calculation, final CHWMs; Calculation!O109

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BPA’s forecast by fiscal year Net requirementA BPA customer's load less new large single loads and the resources it dedicates to its load: the power BPA sells it under section 5(b) of the Northwest Power Act. BPA forecasts it in each RHWM process; a forecast is not a measurement.Definition ↗, forecast in the RHWM process; BPA’s fiscal year runs October to September

ModeledEach figure in its own unit, as BPA’s workbook states it; BPA’s forecast, not a measurement. A fiscal year’s figures are never added to the next.
Fiscal yearLoad net of resourcesforecastLoad above the RHWMforecast
FY2026 (Oct 2025–Sep 2026)500.021 MWa0 MWa
FY2027 (Oct 2026–Sep 2027)513.844 MWa0 MWa
FY2028 (Oct 2027–Sep 2028)530.37 MWa3.439 MWa

Contract Demand QuantitiesA demand amount in kilowatts written into a BPA Regional Dialogue contract, one for each month of the year; BPA publishes the list with an effective date. Not a measured peak and not energy, and twelve months are never added.Definition ↗ effective 2026-05-01

One amount per month of the contract year, in kilowatts, as BPA’s sheet states it. A demand amount, not a measured peak or energy; the twelve are never added.
OctoberNovemberDecemberJanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptember
175,792 kW206,482 kW163,255 kW146,783 kW134,681 kW116,598 kW160,576 kW114,265 kW170,889 kW159,025 kW102,818 kW63,360 kW

What the utility reports paying BPA and receiving from it, by year each figure as printed, in its own unit; an average in MWa is not turned into MWh

From the utility’s own statements, the edition named under each year; each figure links to its citation. Derived The price per MWh is the year’s BPA dollars over its BPA energy in MWh from the same document, not a rate BPA charged. Rows marked “of which” are the note’s Block and Slice rows: components of that year’s purchase, not products, never added to the year’s row and never priced.
YearPaid to BPAUSDEnergy received, averageMWaEnergy receivedMWhPer MWhUSD/MWh, derivedNotes
2025Seattle City Light 2025 Financial Statements ↗163,400,000 USD493.9 MWa4,326,469 MWh37.8 USD/MWh
Note

The table prints a separate row, 'Bonneville South Fork Tolt billing credit', (3.6) for 2025 and (3.8) for 2024; it is not netted against this figure

2024Seattle City Light 2025 Financial Statements ↗165,100,000 USD488.4 MWa4,278,100 MWh38.6 USD/MWh
Note

The table prints a separate row, 'Bonneville South Fork Tolt billing credit', (3.6) for 2025 and (3.8) for 2024; it is not netted against this figure

2023Seattle City Light 2024 Financial Statements ↗138,200,000 USD461.1 MWa4,039,150 MWh34.2 USD/MWh
Note

Management's discussion (unaudited), 2023 against 2022: “Long-term purchased power expenses of $175.4 million increased by $24.9 million largely due to a reduced BPA Power Reserves Distribution Clause credit in 2023 by $15.7 million, and a $16.0 million increase due to BPA Block power costs.” (page 21, PDF page 23). How much of each credit reaches this row is not stated; none is netted, added or allocated. The table prints a separate row, 'Bonneville South Fork Tolt billing credit', (3.7) for 2023; it is not netted against this figure

2022Seattle City Light 2022 Financial Statements ↗106,500,000 USD434.3 MWa3,804,606 MWh28.0 USD/MWh
2 notes

Management's discussion (unaudited), 2022 against 2021: “Long-term purchased power expenses of $150.5 million decreased by $57.0 million mostly due to BPA Power Reserves Distribution Clause credit and expiration of the Stateline Wind contract.” (page 20, PDF page 22). How much of each credit reaches this row is not stated; none is netted, added or allocated. The table prints a separate row, 'Bonneville South Fork Tolt billing credit', (3.6) for 2022; it is not netted against this figure

Table B-16 of the 2026A official statement (page B-22) prints 3,789,870 MWh for BPA (Block) in 2022; the statements' figure, printed alike in the 2024 and 2025 statements, is kept, and the two documents are never mixed

2021Seattle City Light 2022 Financial Statements ↗154,700,000 USD470.2 MWa4,119,204 MWh37.6 USD/MWh
Note

The table prints a separate row, 'Bonneville South Fork Tolt billing credit', (3.5) for 2021; it is not netted against this figure

2020Seattle City Light 2021A Official Statement ↗161,100,000 USD489.4 MWa4,299,280 MWh37.5 USD/MWh
Note

The table prints a separate row, 'Bonneville South Fork Tolt billing credit', (3.4) for 2020; it is not netted against this figure

2019Seattle City Light 2021A Official Statement ↗162,900,000 USD501.0 MWa4,388,973 MWh37.1 USD/MWh
2 notes

Bonneville's Residential Exchange Program refunds, audited note: “The Department received the final billing credit of $4.3 million in 2019 related to the Block and Slice agreement.” (page 77, PDF page 285). How much of each credit reaches this row is not stated; none is netted, added or allocated. The table prints a separate row, 'Bonneville South Fork Tolt billing credit', (3.4) for 2019; it is not netted against this figure

The column is headed 2019(d): “(d) Certain numbers were corrected in 2020.” (page 90, PDF page 298), without saying which; the 2019 edition was not located, so the uncorrected figure is unknown. The 2022 statements' table (page 97) prints the same figure

2018Seattle City Light 2018 Financial Statements ↗164,700,000 USD506.4 MWa4,435,838 MWh37.1 USD/MWh
2 notes

The note also prints a Bonneville Block row equal to this one and a Bonneville Slice row of “-” (Slice ended 2017-09-30); the Block row is not repeated here. Bonneville's Residential Exchange Program refunds, audited note: “The Department received $5.7 million in both 2018 and 2017 in billing credits related to both the Block and Slice agreements as a result of the Court decision.” (page 73, PDF page 77). Management's discussion (unaudited), 2018 against 2017: “Bonneville costs decreased largely because of shifting to purchase only Block power effective October 2017, and thereby reducing Slice power purchases. A final higher Bonneville Slice true-up credit also added to the lower Bonneville costs.” (page 15, PDF page 19). How much of each credit reaches this row is not stated; none is netted, added or allocated. The table prints a separate row, 'Bonneville South Fork Tolt billing credit', (3.3) for 2018; it is not netted against this figure

The note also prints a Bonneville Block row equal to this one and a Bonneville Slice row of “-” (Slice ended 2017-09-30); the Block row is not repeated here

2017Seattle City Light 2018 Financial Statements ↗Spans the product change: Slice/Block Oct 2011–Sep 2017, Block Oct 2017–Sep 2028168,100,000 USD625.9 MWa5,482,904 MWh30.7 USD/MWh
Note

Bonneville's Residential Exchange Program refunds, audited note: “The Department received $5.7 million in both 2018 and 2017 in billing credits related to both the Block and Slice agreements as a result of the Court decision.” (page 73, PDF page 77). Management's discussion (unaudited), 2017 against 2016: “Bonneville costs increased largely because of changing to Block power purchases only, effective October 2017, and thereby reducing Slice power purchases. A lower Bonneville Slice true-up credit also added to the higher Bonneville costs.” (page 16, PDF page 20). How much of each credit reaches this row is not stated; none is netted, added or allocated. The table prints a separate row, 'Bonneville South Fork Tolt billing credit', (3.3) for 2017; it is not netted against this figure

of which, the note’s Block row103,800,000 USD347.7 MWa
of which, the note’s Slice row64,300,000 USD278.2 MWa
2016Seattle City Light 2016 Financial Statements ↗160,700,000 USD585.0 MWa5,138,417 MWh31.3 USD/MWh
Note

Bonneville's Residential Exchange Program refunds, audited note: “The Department received $5.7 million in both 2016 and 2015 in billing credits related to both the Block and Slice agreements as a result of the Court decision.” (page 68, PDF page 72). How much of each credit reaches this row is not stated; none is netted, added or allocated. The table prints a separate row, 'Bonneville South Fork Tolt billing credit', (3.3) for 2016; it is not netted against this figure

of which, the note’s Block row80,000,000 USD264.7 MWa
of which, the note’s Slice row80,700,000 USD320.3 MWa
2015Seattle City Light 2016 Financial Statements ↗156,500,000 USD567.6 MWa4,971,459 MWh31.5 USD/MWh
2 notes

Bonneville's Residential Exchange Program refunds, audited note: “The Department received $5.7 million in both 2016 and 2015 in billing credits related to both the Block and Slice agreements as a result of the Court decision.” (page 68, PDF page 72). How much of each credit reaches this row is not stated; none is netted, added or allocated. The table prints a separate row, 'Bonneville South Fork Tolt billing credit', (3.3) for 2015; it is not netted against this figure

The note's 567.6 MWa and the energy table's 4,971,459 MWh do not agree to print rounding on either an 8,760- or an 8,784-hour year; each is kept as printed and neither is converted into the other

of which, the note’s Block row78,700,000 USD269.8 MWa
of which, the note’s Slice row77,800,000 USD297.8 MWa

What FERC’s records hold read 2026-09-29

Where FERC's public records stop for this account, as read on the date given, each line citing what was read. Statements only: no FERC figure enters the account.

  • FERC Form 1 Neither Seattle City Light nor BPA files FERC Form 1: no respondent in PUDL's Form 1 utility table is named Seattle, Snohomish or Bonneville. Form 1 records a purchase from BPA only on a respondent's own purchased-power schedule, so it holds none of this utility's. Source ↗ core_pudl__assn_ferc1_pudl_utilities, PUDL v2026.9.0 (438 respondents, latest report year 2025).
  • Electric Quarterly Report: BPA's filing BPA files the Electric Quarterly Report as seller C002357. In PUDL's extract, none of BPA's contract rows in the eight quarters read (2015q4, 2018q4, 2021q4, 2023q4, 2024q4, 2025q3, 2025q4, 2026q2) is a Regional Dialogue or Priority Firm power sale, and every transaction BPA reports to Seattle City Light from 2013q3 to 2026q2 is a short-term market sale under its market-based agreement DE-MS79-91BP93445. No document read says BPA files its Regional Dialogue sales under the exclusion below, and its filings are consistent with it. The utility's statements do not say whether those market purchases sit in their Bonneville row. 18 CFR 35.10b(c)(2), excluded from the Electric Quarterly Report (eCFR, current to 2026-09-25): “Sales by a non-public utility under a long-term, cost-based agreement required to be made to certain customers under Federal or state statute” Rule text ↗ Source ↗ core_ferceqr__contracts and core_ferceqr__transactions, seller C002357; PUDL EQR package 2026.8.1.dev56 (Last-Modified 2026-09-02). PUDL drops about 0.6% of EQR records for CSV quoting errors, so each absence is an absence in PUDL's extract, not necessarily in FERC's filings (known issue ↗).
  • Electric Quarterly Report: the utility's own Seattle City Light files its own Electric Quarterly Report, as a seller (C003474). The report is filed by the seller, so a purchase from BPA can appear only in BPA's filing. Source ↗ August 2025 CID listing: Seattle City Light, C003474; Bonneville Power Administration, C002357.

On the residential bill 2026 rates · Residential Service, flat rate, effective 2026-01-01, in the utility’s own words

Where BPA's costs and benefits reach this utility's residential bill, in the utility's own documents: each clause that carries them into the sheet's charges, cited to the document that sets it, a price only where the utility prints one, and what no document states. The account's BPA dollars are never divided by revenue or sales to make a share of a bill.

  1. Automatic BPA cost adjustment “If BPA implements new rates for power and/or transmission services, the updated BPA contract cost under the new rates for the subsequent 12-month period shall be compared with the Department's cost assumption used in the adopted revenue requirement for the same time period. If the calculated difference is more than $1.5 million, then it will be deemed material and passed through in rates. Within three months after the BPA rate implementation, energy charges in all rate schedules will be adjusted upwards or downwards by a consistent fixed per-kWh amount such that the identified material cost difference, including taxes, is collected from or credited to customers over the subsequent 12-month period from the onset of the rate adjustment.” In force until January 1, 2027, when Section 10 of Ordinance 127473 (passed 2026-07-21, approved 2026-07-22) repeals it (Section 15); the ordinance's recital moves BPA cost uncertainty into the expanded Rate Stabilization Account mechanism. A pass-through moves every per-kWh charge and has no line or price of its own: Ordinance 127122 records one effective 2024-01-01 that 'increased all per kWh charges by 0.12 cents per kWh' (recital, PDF p. 2), and the 2025 Financial Statements' unaudited rate notes say a 1.01% BPA passthrough 'is being applied to all retail energy charges beginning January 1, 2024' (page 93). The rates page prints no pass-through, and none is added to the computed bills. Source ↗ SMC 21.49.081 Automatic BPA cost adjustment, printed where Ordinance 127473 Section 10 repeals it; PDF pp. 46-47, read 2026-09-28.
    No price
  2. Where the average rate goes “Power: 42%” One segment for power, not split by supplier, of an average rate the page puts at about 16 cents per kWh, with no class or period stated: not BPA alone. 2026 rates sheet ↗ Residential Rates, What Your Rate Covers, chart below 'The average rate you pay is about 16 cents per kWh and this is where it goes' (where_rates_go.png), first of six segments, read 2026-09-28.
    Quoted
  3. Share of a residential bill that pays for BPA power Not stated in any document read: the residential rates page, SMC 21.49.030 as Ordinances 127122 and 127473 set it, and the 2025 Financial Statements. Note 20's BPA dollars (USD 163.4 million in 2025) are all of the utility's BPA purchases, not a residential class's, so no share of a residential bill is derived from them. 2026 rates sheet ↗ Residential Rates, Current Residential Rates and What Your Rate Covers, read 2026-09-28.
    Not stated

Computed bills on 2026 rates ↓

Beside it, not reconciled disclosure attributionA supplier’s reported sources of electricity sold to Washington customers, grouped by fuel.Definition ↗, not energy BPA delivered

Washington retail sales Commerce attributes to BPA, CY2024
4,255,280MWh
2024 calendar year
Source & method

Commerce's disclosure attribution of the utility's Washington retail sales to the BPA system mix, summed over fuel categories; not energy BPA delivered and not reconciled with BPA's figures or the utility's dollars

2024 calendar year · reported · derived · valid · final

scl-fmd-bpa-2024; Fuel Mix Disclosure CY2024, Utility Fuel Mix by Fuel Category extract (sheet Report Extract, run 2025-12-10); claimant_id=95

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Of 9,416,787 MWh all disclosed Washington retail sales, CY2024. Commerce's disclosure attribution of the utility's Washington retail sales to the BPA system mix, summed over fuel categories; not energy BPA delivered and not reconciled with BPA's figures or the utility's dollars.

  • An entitlement is not a delivery and neither is a payment: an RHWM or CHWM in MWa caps what may be bought at the Tier 1 rate, a CDQ in kW is a monthly demand amount, a net requirement is load less resources, and dollars are what the utility reports it paid. None is added to, subtracted from or divided by another.
  • BPA's fiscal year runs October to September, a rate period is several fiscal years, the utility reports calendar years, and the Provider of Choice CHWM governs a contract period that has not begun. Figures of different periods are shown with their periods and never compared as if they covered the same time.
  • The product changed on the dates in the history: a figure names the products in force during its period, and one that spans a change says so.
  • Where the utility's note splits a year's BPA row into Block and Slice rows, each is a component of that year's purchase, not a product bought on its own: shown beneath the year's row, never added to it and never priced per MWh.
  • Credits from BPA (refunds, true-ups, reserve distributions) are quoted on the years the utility ties them to its BPA cost. None is netted, added or allocated, so a year's price per MWh is the utility's expense over its energy, including whatever it netted, and not a rate BPA charged.
  • The Fuel Mix Disclosure's BPA megawatt-hours are Commerce's attribution of the utility's Washington retail sales to BPA's system mix. They sit beside these figures and are not delivered energy, and they are not reconciled with BPA's quantities or the utility's dollars.
  • A price per MWh is derived only where the utility publishes its BPA energy in MWh for the same period in the same document as the dollars. An average in MWa is shown as printed and never multiplied by hours into MWh.
  • No cost is modeled from BPA's rate schedules: rates times these quantities would be an estimate, not a published figure.

Retail electricity sold

Full serviceA utility that sells electricity to customers. Full-service sales include both electricity and delivery.Definition ↗

Average revenue per kWhRevenue divided by electricity sold. This average is not a tariff or a household bill.Definition ↗ is realized revenue ÷ sales, not a tariff.

WA · commercial

Retail sales
4,954,390MWh
2024
Source & method

EIA-861 electricity sold to ultimate customers for the stated utility, state, customer class and service type; calendar year

2024 calendar year · reported · direct · valid · final

1 of 1 native rows included.

core_eia861__yearly_sales.parquet; report_date=2024-01-01; utility_id_eia=16868; state=WA; customer_class=commercial; business_model=retail; service_type=bundled

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Retail customers
52,473count
2024
Source & method

EIA-861 customer count for the stated utility, state, class and service type; year-end

2024 calendar year · reported · direct · valid · final

1 of 1 native rows included.

core_eia861__yearly_sales.parquet; report_date=2024-01-01; utility_id_eia=16868; state=WA; customer_class=commercial; business_model=retail; service_type=bundled

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Average revenue per kWh sold
11.77cents/kWh
2024
Source & method

revenue_usd / (sales_mwh x 10) over bundled (full-service) rows only; a realized average, not a tariff or marginal rate

2024 calendar year · reported · derived · valid · final

1 of 1 native rows with both revenue and sales included.

core_eia861__yearly_sales.parquet; report_date=2024-01-01; utility_id_eia=16868; state=WA; customer_class=commercial; business_model=retail; service_type=bundled

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WA · industrial

Retail sales
693,409MWh
2024
Source & method

EIA-861 electricity sold to ultimate customers for the stated utility, state, customer class and service type; calendar year

2024 calendar year · reported · direct · valid · final

1 of 1 native rows included.

core_eia861__yearly_sales.parquet; report_date=2024-01-01; utility_id_eia=16868; state=WA; customer_class=industrial; business_model=retail; service_type=bundled

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Retail customers
58count
2024
Source & method

EIA-861 customer count for the stated utility, state, class and service type; year-end

2024 calendar year · reported · direct · valid · final

1 of 1 native rows included.

core_eia861__yearly_sales.parquet; report_date=2024-01-01; utility_id_eia=16868; state=WA; customer_class=industrial; business_model=retail; service_type=bundled

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Average revenue per kWh sold
10.09cents/kWh
2024
Source & method

revenue_usd / (sales_mwh x 10) over bundled (full-service) rows only; a realized average, not a tariff or marginal rate

2024 calendar year · reported · derived · valid · final

1 of 1 native rows with both revenue and sales included.

core_eia861__yearly_sales.parquet; report_date=2024-01-01; utility_id_eia=16868; state=WA; customer_class=industrial; business_model=retail; service_type=bundled

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WA · residential

Retail sales
3,317,659MWh
2024
Source & method

EIA-861 electricity sold to ultimate customers for the stated utility, state, customer class and service type; calendar year

2024 calendar year · reported · direct · valid · final

1 of 1 native rows included.

core_eia861__yearly_sales.parquet; report_date=2024-01-01; utility_id_eia=16868; state=WA; customer_class=residential; business_model=retail; service_type=bundled

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Retail customers
459,964count
2024
Source & method

EIA-861 customer count for the stated utility, state, class and service type; year-end

2024 calendar year · reported · direct · valid · final

1 of 1 native rows included.

core_eia861__yearly_sales.parquet; report_date=2024-01-01; utility_id_eia=16868; state=WA; customer_class=residential; business_model=retail; service_type=bundled

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Average revenue per kWh sold
14.09cents/kWh
2024
Source & method

revenue_usd / (sales_mwh x 10) over bundled (full-service) rows only; a realized average, not a tariff or marginal rate

2024 calendar year · reported · derived · valid · final

1 of 1 native rows with both revenue and sales included.

core_eia861__yearly_sales.parquet; report_date=2024-01-01; utility_id_eia=16868; state=WA; customer_class=residential; business_model=retail; service_type=bundled

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WA · transportation

Retail sales
76,818MWh
2024
Source & method

EIA-861 electricity sold to ultimate customers for the stated utility, state, customer class and service type; calendar year

2024 calendar year · reported · direct · valid · final

1 of 1 native rows included.

core_eia861__yearly_sales.parquet; report_date=2024-01-01; utility_id_eia=16868; state=WA; customer_class=transportation; business_model=retail; service_type=bundled

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Retail customers
3count
2024
Source & method

EIA-861 customer count for the stated utility, state, class and service type; year-end

2024 calendar year · reported · direct · valid · final

1 of 1 native rows included.

core_eia861__yearly_sales.parquet; report_date=2024-01-01; utility_id_eia=16868; state=WA; customer_class=transportation; business_model=retail; service_type=bundled

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Average revenue per kWh sold
11.33cents/kWh
2024
Source & method

revenue_usd / (sales_mwh x 10) over bundled (full-service) rows only; a realized average, not a tariff or marginal rate

2024 calendar year · reported · derived · valid · final

1 of 1 native rows with both revenue and sales included.

core_eia861__yearly_sales.parquet; report_date=2024-01-01; utility_id_eia=16868; state=WA; customer_class=transportation; business_model=retail; service_type=bundled

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Sold to retail customers in the stated state (utility x state grain); bundled full-service rows only in the summaries; energy-only and delivery-only rows are listed but never added to bundled sales. Realized average revenue per kWh is not a tariff.

Clean-energy obligationsFive separate records of a clean-energy obligation, never merged: applicability (which statute reaches this utility and why), target (the figure as enacted or ordered, or as a filing or compilation restates it, with that standing marked), filed achievement (what the utility itself reported for a period), determination (what the issuing body decided about the filing, with its order number and date) and deciding event (the open proceeding, its next step and where to comment). A fuel-mix value is none of these, and a filing that restates a target does not enact it.Definition ↗

checked 2026-09-27

Five kinds kept apart: what applies, what is owed, what the utility filed, what the issuing body decided, and the open proceeding. The disclosed-supply block above is the same utility's fuel mix as Commerce computed it; read it beside these rows, never as a verdict on them. Rows checked through 2026-09-27; a row past its review date is marked, not removed.

Clean Energy Transformation Act RCW 19.405 ↗ · Washington State Department of Commerce (plan adopted by the utility's governing board)

Applicability not yet curated for this utility.

Clean energy implementation plan every four years (RCW 19.405.060) with interim targets; coal out of the allocation by 2025-12-31, greenhouse gas neutral retail sales from 2030-01-01, 100 percent renewable or nonemitting by 2045-01-01

What is owed The obligation as enacted or ordered; a utility’s own restatement does not enact it.

  • interim target for the 2022-2025 compliance periodcompiled Washington State Department of Commerce · CEIP Draft Aggregate Workbook 22.12.15.xlsx, sheet Interim targets· of retail electric load
    As the document puts itAnnual interim targets 2022 97, 2023 97.2, 2024 97.2, 2025 97 percent. The utility reported a combined total only, with no renewable and nonemitting split. Utility Number in the Commerce workbook is the EIA utility identifier.
    97%2022-2025Source ↗
  • eliminate coal-fired resources from the utility's allocation of electricityenacted Washington State Legislature · RCW 19.405.030 Coal-fired resources - Depreciation schedule - Penalties· of the utility's allocation of electricity supplied by coal-fired resources
    As the document puts itOn or before December 31, 2025. Excludes decommissioning and remediation costs; long-term BPA purchases are exempt unless the electricity is known to be coal-fired. The commission must set depreciation schedules ending no later than 2025-12-31.
    0%2025Source ↗
  • greenhouse gas neutral retail sales, at least 80 percent from renewable and nonemitting resourcesenacted Washington State Legislature · RCW 19.405.040 Greenhouse gas neutral electricity supply· of retail sales of electricity to Washington retail electric customers
    As the document puts itBy January 1, 2030. Up to 20 percent of the obligation may be met by alternative compliance: alternative compliance payments, unbundled renewable energy credits or energy transformation projects. Four-year compliance periods 2030-2033, 2034-2037, 2038-2041 and 2042-2044.
    80%2030Source ↗
  • nonemitting generation and renewable resources supply 100 percent of retail salesenacted Washington State Legislature · RCW 19.405.050 One hundred percent renewable and nonemitting electricity supply· of retail sales of electricity to Washington retail electric customers
    As the document puts itBy January 1, 2045, with an annual demonstration of compliance after that date.
    100%2045Source ↗

What the utility filed Its own report of what it did; a number it reports, not a verdict.

  • Not yet curated
    As the document puts itThe atlas has not curated an assertion of this kind for this utility; this is the atlas's coverage, not the utility's record, and it is not a finding of compliance or of its absence
    The atlas has not curated this kind for this utility; that is the atlas’s coverage, not the utility’s record.

What the issuing body decided Orders and acknowledgments on the filings.

  • Not yet curated
    As the document puts itThe atlas has not curated an assertion of this kind for this utility; this is the atlas's coverage, not the utility's record, and it is not a finding of compliance or of its absence
    The atlas has not curated this kind for this utility; that is the atlas’s coverage, not the utility’s record.

The open proceeding Where the next decision is being made, and how to take part.

  • Not yet curated
    As the document puts itThe atlas has not curated an assertion of this kind for this utility; this is the atlas's coverage, not the utility's record, and it is not a finding of compliance or of its absence
    The atlas has not curated this kind for this utility; that is the atlas’s coverage, not the utility’s record.
What stays uncertain in these sources
  • No documented JSON API; the `apiproxy` host answered HTTP 500.30 all session and detail pages said "Record not found".The document endpoint served every filing read on 2026-09-19 and 2026-09-21; it remains undocumented.
    resolved
  • Docket files before 2024 are not available. We are working to resolve the issue.
    open
  • The collection of 2026-2029 CEIPs … are still ongoing.
    open

Energy Independence Act (Initiative 937) RCW 19.285 ↗ · the utility's governing board, examined by the Washington State Auditor

Applicability not yet curated for this utility.

Biennial conservation acquisition target and an annual eligible-renewable target (15 percent of load from 2020) for utilities serving more than 25,000 Washington customers

What is owed The obligation as enacted or ordered; a utility’s own restatement does not enact it.

  • eligible renewable resources or renewable energy credits, or a combination, equal to at least 15 percent of load each year from 2020enacted Washington State Legislature · RCW 19.285.040 Energy conservation and renewable energy targets · (2)(a)(iii)· of the qualifying utility's load
    As the document puts it"At least 15 percent of its load by January 1, 2020, and each year thereafter" (2)(a)(iii), after 3 percent (2012-2015) and 9 percent (2016-2019). Initiative 937, approved 2006-11-07 (2007 c 1). Subsection (2) also provides alternative compliance paths (accelerated conservation and demand response; the four percent incremental-cost cap), so a utility can comply below 15 percent, as Clark Public Utilities does.
    15%2020-Source ↗
  • biennial conservation acquisition target for 2024-2025compiled Washington State Department of Commerce · EIA 2026 Report Summary and Detail.xlsx, sheet Conservation by Utility · cell B18
    As the document puts itBiennium 2024-2025. Prior biennium 2022-2023 target 164162.4 MWh; change from the 2022-2023 target -0.039488.
    157,680 MWh2024-2025Source ↗
  • renewable energy target for 2026compiled Washington State Department of Commerce · EIA 2026 Report Summary and Detail.xlsx, sheet Renewable by Utility· of average load 2024-2025
    As the document puts itAverage load 2024-2025 8973113 MWh. SB 5445 (2025-26) allows accelerated conservation and demand response toward the renewable target; Seattle City Light used 249,370 MWh of demand response.
    15%2026Source ↗

What the utility filed Its own report of what it did; a number it reports, not a verdict.

  • conservation acquired in 2024compiled Washington State Department of Commerce · EIA 2026 Report Summary and Detail.xlsx, sheet Conservation by Utility · cell C18
    As the document puts itCounts toward the 2024-2025 biennial target.
    72,753 MWh2024Source ↗
  • 2024-2025 conservation acquired as a share of retail load, as Commerce computed itcompiled Washington State Department of Commerce · EIA 2026 Report Summary and Detail.xlsx, sheet Conservation by Utility · cell G18· of retail load over the biennial period's two load years (Commerce's sheet Select Data)
    As the document puts itCommerce's column G formula, (2024 acquired + 2025 acquired) / the biennial period's two load years on sheet Select Data (columns C and D); the cell's value, not recomputed. Commerce formats it as a percent to one decimal.
    0.9%2024-2025Source ↗
  • total conservation savings as a share of the 2024-2025 target, as Commerce computed itcompiled Washington State Department of Commerce · EIA 2026 Report Summary and Detail.xlsx, sheet Conservation by Utility · cell F18· of the 2024-2025 conservation target in Commerce's column B
    As the document puts itCommerce's column F formula, (2024 acquired + 2025 acquired + excess from the prior two bienniums) / 2024-2025 target; the cell's value, not recomputed. Commerce formats it as a whole percent.
    122%2024-2025Source ↗
  • excess conservation carried from the prior two bienniums toward the 2024-2025 targetcompiled Washington State Department of Commerce · EIA 2026 Report Summary and Detail.xlsx, sheet Conservation by Utility · cell E18
    As the document puts itCommerce's column E.
    31,530 MWh2024-2025Source ↗
  • conservation acquired in 2025compiled Washington State Department of Commerce · EIA 2026 Report Summary and Detail.xlsx, sheet Conservation by Utility · cell D18
    As the document puts itCounts toward the 2024-2025 biennial target.
    87,521 MWh2025Source ↗
  • qualifying renewable resources acquired for 2026compiled Washington State Department of Commerce · EIA 2026 Report Summary and Detail.xlsx, sheet Renewable by Utility
    As the document puts itEqual to 0.15 of average load 2024-2025; 2025 qualifying renewables were 1348540 MWh. Incremental cost of eligible renewables as a share of revenue requirement 0.005754. SB 5445 (2025-26) allows accelerated conservation and demand response toward the renewable target; Seattle City Light used 249,370 MWh of demand response.
    1,345,968 MWh2026Source ↗

What the issuing body decided Orders and acknowledgments on the filings.

  • Not yet curated
    As the document puts itThe atlas has not curated an assertion of this kind for this utility; this is the atlas's coverage, not the utility's record, and it is not a finding of compliance or of its absence
    The atlas has not curated this kind for this utility; that is the atlas’s coverage, not the utility’s record.

The open proceeding Where the next decision is being made, and how to take part.

  • Not yet curated
    As the document puts itThe atlas has not curated an assertion of this kind for this utility; this is the atlas's coverage, not the utility's record, and it is not a finding of compliance or of its absence
    The atlas has not curated this kind for this utility; that is the atlas’s coverage, not the utility’s record.
What stays uncertain in these sources
  • SAO says it examines "13 qualifying utilities" for EIA and "39 qualifying utilities" for CETA — the count difference (18 vs 13) is unexplained; cooperatives are audited independently.
    open
  • After June 12, 2026, utilities will shift from annual reporting on EIA compliance progress to biennial reporting.
    open
  • PDFs; findings are the legal compliance determinations for COUs.
    open

Curation and sources

Energy Independence Act conservation, 2024–2025

Compiled by Commerce, not a compliance determination

RCW 19.285.040(1) ↗ · Washington State Department of Commerce, EIA 2026 Report Summary and Detail.xlsx, sheet Conservation by Utility · utility reports submitted 2026-06-01 · checked 2026-09-27

Commerce's 2026 Energy Independence Act report summary, from the utilities' reports submitted 2026-06-01. Every value is Commerce's cell; the two percent columns are Commerce's own formulas, shown in Commerce's format and never recomputed. Rows are alphabetical and nothing is ranked. Whether a utility complied is decided by the commission for an investor-owned utility and examined by the State Auditor for a consumer-owned one.

Biennium 2024-2025. Each value is the publisher’s cell at the row and column given; this utility’s row is marked.
Utilitysheet rowTargetMWh · column BAcquired in 2024MWh · column CAcquired in 2025MWh · column DExcess carried from the prior two bienniumsMWh · column ETotal savings, percent of the targetpercent, the publisher’s formula · column FAcquired, percent of retail loadpercent, the publisher’s formula · column G
Consumer-owned utilities, each against its own targetEach sets its biennial target by action of its governing board (WAC 194-37-070(2) and (4)). A percent compares a utility with its own target, not with another utility's.
Benton PUD row 4 9,723.6 MWh6,158 MWh8,117 MWh0 MWh147%0.4%
Chelan County PUD row 5 23,389.2 MWh10,938 MWh18,572 MWh0 MWh126%0.8%
Clallam County PUD row 6 6,429 MWh4,142 MWh2,695 MWh1,285.8 MWh126%0.5%
Clark Public Utilities row 7 73,847 MWh59,339 MWh58,692 MWh0 MWh160%1.2%
Cowlitz PUD row 8 40,033 MWh23,033 MWh24,467 MWh0 MWh119%0.6%
Franklin PUD row 9 9,548 MWh5,261 MWh24,957 MWh1,909 MWh336%1.3%
Grant PUD row 10 17,520 MWh27,206 MWh36,420 MWh0 MWh363%0.5%
Grays Harbor PUD row 11 5,344 MWh2,442 MWh3,264 MWh0 MWh107%0.3%
Inland Power & Light row 12 5,122 MWh3,971 MWh2,238 MWh1,024 MWh141%0.3%
Lewis County PUD row 13 7,299 MWh6,732 MWh2,078 MWh1,459.8 MWh141%0.5%
Mason County PUD No. 3 row 14 3,899 MWh1,910 MWh2,866 MWh0 MWh122%0.3%
Peninsula Light Company row 16 2,106 MWh1,233 MWh2,184 MWh0 MWh162%0.3%
Seattle City Light this utilityrow 18 157,680 MWh72,753 MWh87,521 MWh31,530 MWh122%0.9%
Snohomish County PUD row 19 92,330.4 MWh49,663 MWh54,870 MWh0 MWh113%0.8%
Tacoma Power row 20 55,992 MWh38,342 MWh27,521 MWh11,198.4 MWh138%0.8%
Investor-owned utilities, listed apartThe commission accepts these targets (WAC 480-109-120), and Commerce's target column does not use one basis for the three: each row says which figure Commerce printed, beside the commission's order.
Avista row 3 Target column: Avista's total conservation goal: the commission's 63,374 MWh EIA target plus the 3,169 MWh decoupling penalty threshold (UE-230897 Order 01) 2024-2025 biennial conservation acquisition target accepted by the commission: 63,374 MWh · UE-230897 Order ↗2024-2025 EIA penalty threshold accepted by the commission: 47,635 MWh · UE-230897 Order ↗66,543 MWh51,580 MWh45,279 MWh0 MWh146%0.8%
PacifiCorp row 15 Target column: the commission's 2024-2025 EIA target itself (UE-230904 Order 01); its penalty threshold is 74,839 MWh 2024-2025 biennial conservation acquisition target accepted by the commission: 84,971 MWh · UE-230904 Order ↗2024-2025 EIA penalty threshold accepted by the commission: 74,839 MWh · UE-230904 Order ↗84,971 MWh40,269 MWh53,920 MWh0 MWh111%1.2%
Puget Sound Energy row 17 Target column: the commission's 2024-2025 EIA penalty threshold (UE-230892 Order 01), not its 304,400 MWh EIA target 2024-2025 biennial conservation acquisition target accepted by the commission: 304,400 MWh · UE-230892 Order ↗2024-2025 EIA penalty threshold accepted by the commission: 268,702 MWh · UE-230892 Order ↗268,702 MWh280,964 MWh293,527 MWh0 MWh214%1.4%
Totalrow 21 · Commerce's own line: its sum of all eighteen rows, the three investor-owned figures on their differing bases included. As printed, never recomputed.930,478.2 MWh685,936 MWh749,188 MWh48,407 MWh159%0.9%

Download from Washington State Department of Commerce ↗ · Curation and sources · Frozen facts ↗

Power interruptions reported

2024 · as filed on EIA-861

SAIDISystem Average Interruption Duration Index: the minutes of sustained interruption the average customer had over the year, customer-minutes interrupted divided by customers served. Each utility calculates and reports its own figure on EIA-861 Schedule 3, under the method it declares. A system average says nothing about one address.Definition ↗, SAIFISystem Average Interruption Frequency Index: how many sustained interruptions the average customer had over the year, customers interrupted divided by customers served, as the utility reports it on EIA-861 Schedule 3.Definition ↗ and CAIDICustomer Average Interruption Duration Index: minutes per sustained interruption, SAIDI divided by SAIFI on the same basis. EIA-861 asks utilities for SAIDI and SAIFI only; EIA publishes CAIDI with the data and the atlas shows it as published, never recomputed.Definition ↗ count sustained interruptions. Figures with and without major event daysDays a utility sets apart from normal operation: EIA describes them as events such as snowstorms, floods or heatwaves, or periods of outages that differ greatly from the utility's own five-year history. EIA-861 asks for the indices both with and without them. Part B respondents determine them under IEEE 1366; Part C respondents define a major event themselves. The two series answer different questions and are never blended.Definition ↗ are different measures; compare like with like.

WA · IEEE 1366EIA-861 Schedule 3 has two parts. Part B is for utilities that calculate SAIDI and SAIFI and determine major event days under IEEE 1366-2003 or IEEE 1366-2012; Part C is for any other method, where the utility also states how it defines a momentary interruption and whether inactive accounts count as customers. Figures from the two parts are not comparable and the atlas never pools them; utilities under Part C do not share one method either.Definition ↗

IndexMajor event days includedMajor event days excludedIncluded, loss of supply removed
SAIDIminutes/customer/year323.6110.8323.6
SAIFIinterruptions/customer/year1.120.761.12
CAIDIminutes/interruption289.2145.6289.2
  • Customers the indices are based on
    537,470 customers
  • Highest voltage counted as distribution
    34 kV
  • How it was measuredDetermined under IEEE 1366-2003 or IEEE 1366-2012; the form does not record which edition
    Outages recorded automatically: yes
  • Others reporting the same way · major event days included21 utilities in WA under IEEE 1366. Each counts once whatever its size; this is context, not a ranking.
    SAIDI median 258.5 (52.9–1,887) minutes/customer/yearSAIFI median 1.41 interruptions/customer/year
  • Others reporting the same way · major event days excluded21 utilities in WA under IEEE 1366. Each counts once whatever its size; this is context, not a ranking.
    SAIDI median 136.1 (39.5–604.7) minutes/customer/yearSAIFI median 1 interruptions/customer/year
Every year filed
As filed each year. SAIDI in minutes per customer per year; SAIFI in interruptions per customer per year. Blank cells were not reported.
YearStateStandardSAIDI withSAIDI withoutSAIFI withSAIFI withoutCustomers
2024WAIEEE 1366323.6110.81.1190.761537,470
2023WAIEEE 136695.795.70.5980.598519,758
2022WAIEEE 1366138.6101.20.760.63509,519
2021WAIEEE 1366244.8106.70.90.66498,690
2020WAIEEE 136679.667.10.550.49492,240
2019WAIEEE 136617975.20.8250.49488,000
2018WAIEEE 1366133.858.30.710.5475,500
2017WAIEEE 1366167.864.50.790.45468,522
2016WAIEEE 1366152.860.90.870.5442,330
2015WAIEEE 1366183.262.50.660.5437,194
2014WAIEEE 1366147.669.11.480.89425,815
2013WAIEEE 1366127691.10.9409,619

Reported by the utility on EIA-861 Schedule 3 under the method it declares. IEEE 1366 and other-method figures are not comparable, and values with and without major event days answer different questions. A system average says nothing about one address. CAIDI is published by EIA as SAIDI divided by SAIFI; it is not a line on the form. A value the utility left blank stays blank. Source and licence· Frozen facts for this utility ↗

Customer programmes

EIA-861 Schedule 6, as filed

Programme results as each utility filed them, by customer class and report year, each in its own unit. Classes are never added into a total, years are never added into a period, and savings are never divided by sales. The one ratio shown, enrolled demand-response customers against the utility's own EIA-861 customer count for the same state, class and year, carries both counts.

Energy efficiency EIA-861 Schedule 6 Part A

Reported by the utility on EIA-861 Schedule 6 Part A as adjusted gross savings at the customer meter under its own evaluation; figures are not comparable across utilities. Reporting-year incremental savings are annualized for participants new that year; life-cycle savings run over the programmes' planned life (energy as a lump sum, peak as the average annual reduction). Each class is shown as filed and the total row is the filer's own; nothing is summed here. Costs are nominal dollars of the report year (the form collects thousands; PUDL publishes dollars). A blank stays blank.

Report year 2024, WA. Each row is one customer class as filed; the filer's total is its own line and is not the sum of the rows above. Costs are nominal dollars.
ClassIncremental annual energy savings, reporting year (annualized)MWhIncremental annual peak demand savings, reporting yearMWIncremental life-cycle energy savings (lump sum over the programmes' life)MWh · life cycleIncremental life-cycle peak demand savings (average annual over the programmes' life)MW · life cycleWeighted average life of the energy-efficiency portfolioyearsCustomer incentives, reporting-year incremental cost (nominal)USDCustomer incentives, incremental life-cycle cost (nominal)USD · life cycleOther costs, incremental life-cycle (nominal)USD · life cycleOther costs, reporting-year incremental (nominal)USD
CommercialSCL38,043 MWh7 MW457,547 MWh5.7 MW12 years$8,090,050$8,090,050$11,431,580$11,431,580
IndustrialSCL13,041 MWh2.4 MW145,131 MWh2.2 MW11.1 years$0$0$1,103,323$1,103,323
ResidentialSCL20,016 MWh3.5 MW154,605 MWh2.6 MW7.7 years$2,287,740$2,287,740$7,776,515$7,776,515
TransportationSCLnot reportednot reportednot reportednot reportednot reportednot reportednot reportednot reportednot reported
Filer's totalSCL71,100 MWh12.9 MW757,282 MWh10.5 MWnot applicable$10,377,790$10,377,790$20,311,418$20,311,418

Demand response EIA-861 Schedule 6 Part B

A long-form filer with no Schedule 6 row: either no programme, or a separate administrator reports it.

Population: organizations of this release with EIA-861 rows in the core states. A short-form respondent has no figures to file; a long-form respondent without a row may have no programmes or may have a nonutility administrator reporting for it. Years without a row are listed against the table's span, not against the years this utility filed the form.

What the sheet says

TariffA utility’s published rates and charges, with an effective date.Definition ↗ · not a bill

2026 rates· WA· effective 2026-01-01

  • Basic chargeper day, Seattle and Renton; 0.4197 to 0.4262 in the other suburban jurisdictions
    $0.3945
  • EnergyResidential Service, flat rate· Seattle City Council (SMC 21.49)
    0.1338 USD/kWh, all kWh in Seattle (0.1356 to 0.1465 in suburban jurisdictions)
  • Adjustment schedules named on the sheetlisted, never added in
    undergrounding charge by jurisdiction; the 4 percent rate stabilisation surcharge was removed 2026-04-01

Rates set by council ordinance; the 2026 schedule is flat, replacing the earlier block above a threshold.Source sheet ↗read 2026-09-18· OpenEI entry ↗ dated 2025-01-01, a discovery index only

Modeled Computed billsA declared usage case priced on a published tariff sheet: kWh in one bill, the days it covers, and where the sheet has them a service size, dwelling type or jurisdiction and a season. The total is the schedule's own charges: the fixed charge plus the energy charge by tier. Where the same sheet prints prices for named adjustments or credits, a second, separately labelled total adds them; those prices change on their own schedules. Whatever the sheet only names, such as a city tax, is listed and never added, so neither total is a complete bill. It is an illustration, not a billing record, and it is not the realized average revenue per kWh that EIA-861 reports.Definition ↗ for 3 declared cases · Seattle. Prices are the sheet’s own; usage and days are assumptions.

CaseSchedule charges (USD)With adjustments the sheet prices (USD)Next kWh costs (USD/kWh)Average (cents/kWh)
600 kWh over 30 days$92.12None priced on this sheet$0.133815.35schedule charges ÷ kWh
900 kWh over 30 days$132.26None priced on this sheet$0.133814.7schedule charges ÷ kWh
1,200 kWh over 30 days$172.40None priced on this sheet$0.133814.37schedule charges ÷ kWh
How each total adds up

600 kWh over 30 days

LineQuantityPriceAmount (USD)
Base service charge30 day$0.3945 per day$11.84
Energy600 kWh$0.1338 per kWh$80.28
Schedule charges$92.12

900 kWh over 30 days

LineQuantityPriceAmount (USD)
Base service charge30 day$0.3945 per day$11.84
Energy900 kWh$0.1338 per kWh$120.42
Schedule charges$132.26

1,200 kWh over 30 days

LineQuantityPriceAmount (USD)
Base service charge30 day$0.3945 per day$11.84
Energy1,200 kWh$0.1338 per kWh$160.56
Schedule charges$172.40

Named on the sheet without a price, so in neither total: Residential Undergrounding Rates. Set in another document, not on the sheet, and unpriced, so in neither total: Automatic BPA cost adjustment (source ↗, SMC 21.49.081 Automatic BPA cost adjustment, printed where Ordinance 127473 Section 10 repeals it; PDF pp. 46-47). This sheet prices no adjustment, so there is no second total.

Where BPA’s costs reach this bill, and what no document states ↑

RCW 80.60· Net metering of electricity

The statutory rule applies: excess kilowatt-hours carry forward as a credit and any balance is granted to the utility each year. Export is not permitted in the utility's network areas, most of downtown Seattle and parts of First Hill, South Lake Union and the University District, so net metering is unavailable there

A municipal utility publishes no numbered net-metering schedule; the terms come from the statute and the utility's own service pages, and no effective date is stated.Source ↗read 2026-09-18

The price on the utility's own sheet on the date it was read, with the adjustment schedules it names listed beside it and never added in. It is not a bill, and it is not the realized average revenue per kWh that EIA-861 reports above: the two answer different questions.

Distributed generationCustomer-sited and small generation reported by utilities in aggregate on EIA-861; no locations; a separate population from the plant inventory, never added to it.Definition ↗

Utility reports · no locations

Distributed generation reported by this utility to EIA-861 for 2024, by state

Utility-reported, no locations, not in the EIA-860 plant inventory (>= 1 MW). Storage is listed separately and never added to generation capacity. Non-net-metered units >= 1 MW can also appear in EIA-860; the overlap is disclosed, not resolved. Source rollup rows are excluded from every sum.

Generation capacity

Distributed generation capacity (net-metered + non-net-metered)
64.2MW
2024
Source & method

Sum of EIA-861 utility-reported nameplate capacity over leaf technology classes, excluding storage and source rollup rows; utility x state grain; no locations; not part of the EIA-860 plant inventory

2024 calendar year · reported · derived · valid · final

1 of 1 reporting utilities included.

net-metered + non-net-metered; the two EIA-861 schedules are disjoint by design

core_eia861__yearly_net_metering_customer_fuel_class.parquet; report_date=2024-01-01; utility_id_eia=16868 (+ non-net-metering table)

Publisher & attribution ↗
Net-metered capacity
64.2MW
2024
Source & method

EIA-861 net metering schedule, leaf technology classes excluding storage

2024 calendar year · reported · derived · valid · final

1 of 1 reporting utilities included.

core_eia861__yearly_net_metering_customer_fuel_class.parquet; report_date=2024-01-01; utility_id_eia=16868 (+ non-net-metering table)

Publisher & attribution ↗
Non-net-metered distributed capacity
Not reported
2024
Source & method

EIA-861 non-net-metering distributed generation schedule, leaf technology classes excluding storage

2024 calendar year · reported · derived · missing · final

0 of 0 reporting utilities included.

core_eia861__yearly_net_metering_customer_fuel_class.parquet; report_date=2024-01-01; utility_id_eia=16868 (+ non-net-metering table)

Publisher & attribution ↗

Net-metering participation and exports

Customer counts can include the same customer under more than one technology. Energy sold to utilities measures exports; it does not measure all generation at customer sites.

Net-metered customers
8,008count
2024
Source & method

EIA-861 net metering customer count over leaf technology classes; a customer with two technologies can be counted twice by the source

2024 calendar year · reported · derived · valid · final

1 of 1 reporting utilities included.

core_eia861__yearly_net_metering_customer_fuel_class.parquet; report_date=2024-01-01; utility_id_eia=16868 (+ non-net-metering table)

Publisher & attribution ↗
Energy sold back to the utility by net-metered customers
Not reported
2024
Source & method

EIA-861 net metering schedule; export to the utility, not customer generation

2024 calendar year · reported · derived · missing · final

0 of 1 reporting utilities included.

1 of 1 reporting utilities have no value for this metric

core_eia861__yearly_net_metering_customer_fuel_class.parquet; report_date=2024-01-01; utility_id_eia=16868 (+ non-net-metering table)

Publisher & attribution ↗

Distributed storage

Power rating in MW and energy capacity in MWh are separate measurements. These storage quantities are excluded from the generation capacity above.

Distributed storage capacity
2.1MW
2024
Source & method

EIA-861 storage technology classes (storage_pv, storage_nonpv, all_storage); power rating, kept separate from generation capacity

2024 calendar year · reported · derived · valid · final

1 of 1 reporting utilities included.

core_eia861__yearly_net_metering_customer_fuel_class.parquet; report_date=2024-01-01; utility_id_eia=16868 (+ non-net-metering table)

Publisher & attribution ↗
Distributed storage energy capacity
Not reported
2024
Source & method

EIA-861 storage technology classes; usable energy as reported

2024 calendar year · reported · derived · missing · final

0 of 1 reporting utilities included.

1 of 1 reporting utilities have no value for this metric

core_eia861__yearly_net_metering_customer_fuel_class.parquet; report_date=2024-01-01; utility_id_eia=16868 (+ non-net-metering table)

Publisher & attribution ↗

Geographic & reporting context

Sources for this record

Frozen citation page ↗

Clean-energy obligation assertions (pipeline/config/crosswalks/clean_energy_obligations.csv)

Washington State Legislature (RCW 19.405, RCW 19.285), Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission orders and docket filings, Washington State Department of Commerce EIA and CEIP report summaries, and each utility's own filings, cited per row

One assertion per row, five kinds kept apart: what applies, what is owed, what the utility filed, what the issuing body decided, and the open proceeding. A fuel-mix value is not a compliance verdict, and a filing that restates a target does not enact it; standing on each row says whose figure it is. An absent row states what was checked and when; a utility not in the file has not been curated.

BPA supply accounts (pipeline/config/crosswalks/bpa_customer.csv and supply_accounts.csv)

Bonneville Power Administration (RHWM outputs, Provider of Choice CHWM calculation, CDQs, customer products lists, product change letter), Snohomish County PUD (2025 Annual Report; Electric Utility Rates, Schedule 7; electric rates page) and Seattle City Light (financial statements for 2016, 2018, 2022, 2024 and 2025; 2021A and 2026A official statements; residential rates page) with the City of Seattle's rate ordinances, cited per row; FERC coverage lines cite PUDL's FERC Form 1 and EQR extracts (CC-BY-4.0), the eCFR and FERC's CID listing

Entitlements (MWa), demand quantities (kW), forecasts net of resources (MWa), dollars (USD), energy received (MWh, or MWa as an average) and a disclosure attribution (MWh), each with its own period and document, never added, subtracted or divided across one another. A figure names the BPA product in force during its period; a price per MWh appears only where the utility publishes the same period's BPA energy in MWh in the same document, badged derived. A note's Block and Slice rows are components of the year's purchase, never products, never added to its total and never priced. The bill trace quotes the utility's residential sheet and prints a price only where the utility does, in its unit; the share of a bill that pays for BPA power is shown only where a document states it.

Display names and aliases (pipeline/config/crosswalks/aliases.csv)

Display names verified against each organization's own website; EIA legal names retained as aliases

A display name is the name an organization uses for itself; the EIA name stays searchable and on the record. Each row cites the page that shows the name.

PUDL v2026.9.0, out_eia__yearly_generators

Catalyst Cooperative, PUDL v2026.9.0, derived from U.S. EIA Forms 860/923

Data transformed by PUDL from U.S. EIA forms; selected fields republished; EIA data is public with dated acknowledgment (https://www.eia.gov/about/copyrights_reuse.php)

PUDL v2026.9.0, out_eia860__yearly_ownership

Catalyst Cooperative, PUDL v2026.9.0, derived from U.S. EIA Forms 860/923

Data transformed by PUDL from U.S. EIA forms; selected fields republished; EIA data is public with dated acknowledgment (https://www.eia.gov/about/copyrights_reuse.php)

PUDL v2026.9.0, core_eia861__yearly_reliability

Catalyst Cooperative, PUDL v2026.9.0, derived from U.S. EIA Form 861

Data transformed by PUDL from U.S. EIA forms; selected fields republished; EIA data is public with dated acknowledgment (https://www.eia.gov/about/copyrights_reuse.php)

PUDL v2026.9.0, core_eia861__yearly_energy_efficiency

Catalyst Cooperative, PUDL v2026.9.0, derived from U.S. EIA Form 861

Data transformed by PUDL from U.S. EIA forms; selected fields republished; EIA data is public with dated acknowledgment (https://www.eia.gov/about/copyrights_reuse.php)

PUDL v2026.9.0, out_eia__yearly_utilities

Catalyst Cooperative, PUDL v2026.9.0, derived from U.S. EIA Forms 860/923

Data transformed by PUDL from U.S. EIA forms; selected fields republished; EIA data is public with dated acknowledgment (https://www.eia.gov/about/copyrights_reuse.php)

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