Your power bill just went up again.
Here’s why.
Puget Sound Energy is Washington’s largest utility, and since 2009 it has been owned by a consortium of institutional investors based in Canada, the Netherlands and Australia. Its typical residential electric bill has risen from about $97 to about $160 a month in three years, and PSE is now asking regulators for roughly $28 more in 2027. This site shows where your electricity comes from, what it costs, how it compares, and what you can do about it.
Five facts every PSE customer should know
Start with the question you have
Each section is built from public filings, regulator orders and federal data. Sources are footnoted throughout.
Where does my electricity actually come from?
An interactive map of every PSE plant and contract, the fuel mix year by year, the Colstrip coal exit, and how a Puget Sound home uses its kilowatt-hours.
Map + 5 chartsHow much has my bill really gone up, and how does it compare?
Eleven years of rate history, every rate case, a 50-state price map, and PSE against Seattle, Tacoma, Snohomish and the PUDs.
US map + 8 chartsWho owns PSE, and how did that happen?
From Stone & Webster in 1912 to the 2009 Macquarie buyout and today’s pension-fund consortium. Plus executive pay and whether it really moves your bill.
Timeline + ownership chartCould we run this as a public utility instead?
Washington’s 1930 PUD law, what Jefferson County did in 2013, why Whatcom paused, the Kitsap vote this November, and cheaper fixes short of a takeover.
Case studies + mechanicsWhat can I do about my own bill this winter?
Every current PSE rebate with dollar amounts, bill-discount tiers up to 45%, time-of-use rates, and how to read the line items.
Rebates + assistanceWho do I call, write, or show up in front of?
PSE executives and customer lines, the three UTC commissioners, Public Counsel, your legislators, county councils, and the Sept 29 / Oct 7 hearings.
Contacts + scriptsHalf fossil, a fifth wind, and coal until this year
Washington’s grid as a whole is roughly half hydro. PSE’s delivered power in 2024 was 32% natural gas and 18% coal, with the Colstrip, Montana coal share only leaving rates on January 1, 2026. That mix is why Ecology rates PSE’s electricity at 108 grams of CO₂ per megajoule, versus 64 for the state average and under 9 for Seattle City Light.
Explore the generation mapPSE delivered electricity, 2024
Percent of MWh, Commerce fuel-mix disclosure
Dates that matter
Regulated utilities answer to the people who show up.
The UTC sets PSE’s prices in public dockets that anyone can comment on. Public Counsel, the Attorney General’s consumer advocate, has proposed cuts that would save customers up to $695 million in 2027 alone. Hearings on the current request are September 29 in Lacey and October 7 online.