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Facts about EWEB

General

Name: Eugene Water & Electric Board
Location: 500 E. Fourth Ave., Eugene, Ore. 97401
Mailing address: P.O. Box 10148, Eugene, Ore. 97440
Founded: 1911
Type of utility: Municipal public, chartered by City of Eugene.
Governance: Five-person commission elected to four-year terms by the citizens of Eugene.
Employees: 506
Service area: 235.6 square miles
Drinking water source: McKenzie River

Facts & Figures
More detailed statistics, as well as other information about EWEB, its facilities and the many programs it offers, can be found in the annual Facts & Figures publication.

Electric utility

Total customers: 86,532
Residential customers: 77,533
Retail power consumption: 2,728,684,512 kWh
Retail power sales: $173.9 million
Wholesale power sales: $78.9 million
All-time peak one-hour demand: 564,000 kilowatts (Jan. 17, 2001)
2007 peak one-hour demand: 550,000 kilowatts
Conservation savings, 2007: 26,915,443 kWh
Homes weatherized: 1,387
Percent of power purchased from BPA: 47
Percent generated by EWEB-owned power plants: 10.9
Substations: 38

Water utility

Total customers: 50, 410
Residential customers: 45,081
Total consumption: 9.6 billion gallons
Retail water sales: $17.5 million
Water treatment plant capacity: 72 million gallons per day
All-time peak daily demand: 69.4 million gallons (July 28, 1998)
2007 peak daily demand: 61.5 million gallons
Reservoirs: 27
Reservoir storage capacity: 97.5 million gallons

Steam utility

Steam customers: 90
Steam sales revenues: $3.8 million

Note: All electric and water statistics are for 2007.