Washington · Municipal
City of Seattle - (WA)
14.74¢ per kWh, bundled, EIA-861 2025. Average bill $87.48 at 593.6 kWh a month, across 472,309 customers on that row.
Washington averaged 13.17¢/kWh and $124.41 a month. The United States averaged 17.23¢/kWh and $150.68. State and national figures come from EIA's Average Bill file.
Revenue divided by sales, EIA-861 Sales to Ultimate Customers, 2025, released October 7, 2026. Texas wires utilities come from the Delivery Companies file. The price and bill use bundled service. Customer count: 472,309, the largest residential count across service types.
Estimate a bill
Tariff total
$145.64
RSC · Flat energy charge effective January 1, 2026 · effective 2026-01-01
Tariff schedule, before the taxes and fees listed below
- Daily charge × 30 days$11.84
- All kWh · 1,000 kWh × 13.3800¢$133.80
Source: Seattle City Light current residential flat rate, Schedule RSC, checked 2026-10-10. Tariff document
Not included: Rates for Burien, SeaTac, Shoreline, unincorporated King County, Lake Forest Park, Normandy Park, Tukwila, and Renton, which City Light prints separately; Any tax that is not already inside the Seattle RSC rates on that page.
- City Light's rate page lists Seattle base service at $0.3945 per day and energy at $0.1338 per kWh. The municipal code schedule RSC shows the same 39.45¢ per meter per day and 13.38¢ per kWh effective January 1, 2026.
- The same page lists a time-of-use option for Seattle at $0.1610 peak, $0.1409 mid-peak, and $0.0805 off-peak. This total is the flat rate, not time of use.
2025 EIA average
$147.40
14.74¢/kWh × 1,000 kWh. Bundled residential average, EIA-861 2025. The customer charge is already folded into this average, so it stands beside a tariff total rather than being added to it.
Annual history
| Year | ¢/kWh | Avg. bill | Avg. kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9.08¢ | $57.95 | 638.4 | 381,419 |
| 2016 | 9.44¢ | $61.20 | 648.3 | 389,942 |
| 2017 | 10.55¢ | $68.35 | 647.8 | 403,888 |
| 2018 | 10.72¢ | $65.25 | 608.9 | 410,664 |
| 2019 | 11.37¢ | $69.49 | 611.3 | 419,601 |
| 2020 | 11.87¢ | $74.31 | 626.1 | 426,359 |
| 2021 | 11.85¢ | $74.34 | 627.2 | 433,686 |
| 2022 | 12.12¢ | $76.48 | 631.1 | 441,926 |
| 2023 | 12.78¢ | $79.25 | 620.0 | 451,055 |
| 2024 | 14.09¢ | $84.68 | 601.1 | 459,964 |
| 2025 | 14.74¢ | $87.48 | 593.6 | 472,309 |
EIA-861, 2015–2025, using the same service type as the 2025 figure. A blank year means that service was not in the file.
Counties
King.
EIA-861 Service Territory, 2025. A listed county is the county EIA recorded. It does not mean every address in the county is served. Open this utility in the bill calculator · Rate history tool