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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.
Customers: 85,419
Employees: 489
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: 85,419
Residential customers: 76,451
Retail power consumption: 2,689,922,893 kWh
Retail power sales: $173 million
Wholesale power sales: $63.7 million
All-time peak one-hour demand: 627,000 kilowatts (Dec. 23, 1998)
2006 peak one-hour demand: 519,000 kilowatts
Conservation savings, 2006: 19,138,882 kWh
Homes weatherized: 1,709
Percent of power purchased from BPA: 53
Percent generated by EWEB-owned power plants: 11.9
Substations: 38

Water utility

Total customers: 49,872
Residential customers: 44,728
Total consumption: 10,029,694 gallons
Retail water sales: $16.5 million
Water treatment plant capacity: 72 million gallons per day
All-time peak daily demand: 71.8 million gallons (July 28, 1998)
2006 peak daily demand: 62.3 million gallons
Reservoirs: 27
Reservoir storage capacity: 97.5 million gallons

Steam utility

Steam customers: 86
Steam sales revenues: $3.7 million

Note: All electric and water statistics are for 2006.