Pacific Power (PacifiCorp) commercial electricity rates in Oregon

• Average commercial price, 202511.08¢per kWh, all commercial customers
• vs Oregon average+13%state commercial average 9.80¢
• Commercial customers73,9342nd largest of 21 in Oregon
• Average use7,955 kWha month per commercial customer
• Average bill$882a month per commercial customer
• Since 2015+22%from 9.10¢ per kWh
• Outages104 mina year per customer · US average 124

Pacific Power (PacifiCorp) is an investor-owned utility serving 25 counties in Oregon. Among the 21 Oregon utilities in EIA’s 2025 sales data with 500 or more commercial customers, it is the 2nd largest, with about 30% of the state’s commercial customers. EIA lists it as PacifiCorp.

Pacific Power commercial electricity prices, 2015 to 2025

In 2015 Pacific Power billed its commercial customers an average of 9.10¢ per kWh. In 2025 the figure was 11.08¢, so it rose 22% over 10 years. The average for all commercial customers in Oregon rose 11% over the same period. The latest year, 2025, is the highest of the 11 on record here. Between 2024 and 2025 it rose 4.1%.

Average use and average bill are the utility’s commercial sales and revenue divided by its commercial customers and by twelve. The bill is an all-in figure: energy, delivery, demand and fixed charges together. A few very large customers pull both averages up, so most businesses use and pay less than the average.

Residential, commercial and industrial prices at Pacific Power

In 2025 the average commercial price at Pacific Power was 27% below the residential figure and 1.0% above the industrial one. Larger customers take power at a higher voltage and use it more steadily, so at most utilities the average falls from residential to commercial to industrial. Which class an account falls in is the utility’s decision, and the line between commercial and industrial is drawn differently from one utility to the next.

How Pacific Power’s commercial rates are set

Pacific Power is investor-owned, so its rates are set in cases before the Oregon Public Utility Commission and published in a tariff, which is a public document. A commercial account is billed on a rate schedule, chosen by the size of the account and the voltage it takes power at, and a schedule usually combines a fixed monthly charge, a charge per kWh and, above a certain size, a demand charge on the highest rate of draw in the month. The schedule code is printed on the bill. What a business in Oregon can and cannot choose is on the Oregon page.

Meters, time-varying rates and net metering at Pacific Power

EIA counts 87,426 commercial meters at Pacific Power in 2025, and 85,726 of them (98%) are advanced meters (AMI), which record use at least hourly and report it to the utility at least daily. Of the rest, 264 are automated-reading (AMR) meters, which send a reading to the utility for billing only, and 1,436 are standard meters. An advanced meter is what makes interval data possible, and interval data is what shows when a building’s peak demand happens.

At Pacific Power, 123 commercial customers were on a time-varying rate in 2025, about 0.2% of its commercial customers. A time-varying rate charges more in some hours than in others, so when a business uses power matters as well as how much. The kinds Pacific Power reports offering commercial customers are time-of-use pricing.

EIA records 1,317 commercial net-metered generating systems at Pacific Power in 2025, with 63.5 MW of capacity between them: about 18 for every 1,000 commercial customers. Net metering credits a customer for power its own system sends to the grid; the terms are in the utility’s tariff.

How reliable is Pacific Power’s electric service?

Pacific Power customers went without power for an average of 104 minutes in 2025, excluding major storms, with about 0.91 interruptions per customer. The average across U.S. utilities reporting the same way is 124 minutes. With major storms counted the figure was 385 minutes. These are averages over every customer of every class, so they describe the system and not any one street.

Where Pacific Power serves

EIA records Pacific Power serving customers in 25 Oregon counties: Benton, Clatsop, Coos, Crook, Deschutes, Douglas, Gilliam, Hood River, Jackson, Jefferson, Josephine, Klamath, Lake, Lane, Lincoln, Linn, Marion, Morrow, and 7 more. A county can be shared between utilities, so this does not tell you who serves a given address. The utility that serves an address is the one named on its bill.

EIA lists PacifiCorp West as its balancing authority, the body that keeps supply and demand matched minute by minute across the area.

Other utilities in Oregon

The average each billed its commercial customers in 2025. The Oregon page has the state’s own figures and every utility with 500 or more commercial customers.

• Portland General Electric (13.52¢)

What these figures can and cannot tell you

• They are averages over every commercial customer. A utility whose commercial customers are mostly large averages fewer cents per kWh than one serving mostly small shops, so a lower figure can mean larger customers and not a lower rate.
• They are not a rate schedule. None of these figures is a charge printed in Pacific Power’s tariff, and nothing here works out a bill from one. The tariff index lists the utilities whose filed schedules are quoted on this site.
• They are annual and final. EIA publishes utility figures once a year. The Oregon page carries the state’s trailing 12 months, which is more recent and still preliminary.

For one building, the cost estimator gives a range by building type, size and state, and price by utility sets every utility side by side. Commercial vs residential vs industrial compares the classes in every state.

Data: every year of these figures, for this utility and every other with a page, is in one CSV, free to use with credit to the U.S. Energy Information Administration and this site. To cite this page: Pacific Power commercial electricity rates, CommercialElectricityRates.com, from EIA Form EIA-861 final 2025 data.

Common questions about Pacific Power

What is the average commercial electricity rate at Pacific Power?

Pacific Power billed its commercial customers in Oregon an average of 11.08¢ per kWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That is 13% above the Oregon commercial average of 9.80¢. It is the utility’s commercial revenue divided by its commercial sales, so it describes the whole class and is not the rate on any one schedule.

How much is the average commercial electric bill at Pacific Power?

About $882 a month in 2025, on average use of about 7,955 kWh a month. That is Pacific Power’s commercial revenue divided by its 73,893 commercial customers. A few very large accounts pull the average up, so most businesses pay less than this.

Have Pacific Power’s commercial electricity rates gone up?

The average Pacific Power billed commercial customers rose 22% between 2015 and 2025, from 9.10¢ to 11.08¢ per kWh. The Oregon commercial average rose 11% over the same period.

How reliable is Pacific Power’s electric service?

Pacific Power customers averaged 104 minutes without power in 2025, excluding major storms, against a 124-minute average for U.S. utilities reporting the same way (EIA).

Does Pacific Power use smart meters for businesses?

EIA counts 85,726 advanced (AMI) meters among Pacific Power’s 87,426 commercial meters in 2025, which is 98%. An advanced meter records use at least hourly, which is what makes interval data and time-varying rates possible.

Is this the rate my business will pay Pacific Power?

No. It is an average over every commercial customer, from a corner shop to a campus. What one business pays depends on its rate schedule, how much it uses and how hard it draws at its peak. The schedule code is printed on the bill, and the schedule itself is in Pacific Power’s tariff.