PUD No 1 of Cowlitz County

What This Utility Data Tells You

PUD No 1 of Cowlitz County is a municipally-owned utility operating in Washington under EIA identifier 4442. It reports service to approximately 53,155 customer accounts and generated about $0.23 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 19 ZIP codes. Municipal ownership means a local board or city council typically oversees this utility, and it is exempt from federal income tax.

In 2023, the average PUD No 1 of Cowlitz County customer experienced 110.9 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That sits within the 120–180 minute national benchmark range, indicating performance typical of U.S. distribution utilities. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 0.91 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 110.9 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 110.9 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

PUD No 1 of Cowlitz County has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. Over that window, SAIDI moved from 152.5 down to 110.9 minutes, a trend worth noting for anyone weighing capital investment outcomes.