PUD No 1 of Benton County

What This Utility Data Tells You

PUD No 1 of Benton County is a municipally-owned utility operating in Washington under EIA identifier 1579. It reports service to approximately 57,263 customer accounts and generated about $0.13 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 16 ZIP codes. Being municipally owned, the utility answers to a local board or city council rather than a state commission, and carries a federal income tax exemption.

In 2023, the average PUD No 1 of Benton County customer experienced 124.9 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that is comfortably under the 120–180 minute national benchmark range, a sign of solid grid resilience and quick outage response. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 1.08, putting the typical customer at roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 48.1 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 124.9 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

PUD No 1 of Benton County has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. SAIDI climbed from 88.5 to 124.9 minutes over that window, a shift that can point to worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.