Lassen Municipal Utility District

What Lassen Municipal Utility District does

Lassen Municipal Utility District (LMUD) is a non-profit, government-owned municipal electric utility founded in 1986 and headquartered in Susanville, California. It provides electric utility service, customer billing, and energy programs to residential and commercial customers within its designated service territory in Lassen County. The district operates with a small staff of 11–50 employees consistent with a single small-city utility operation.

LMUD's product set, as disclosed in the available firmographic data, centers on the regulated retail delivery and sale of electricity plus associated billing services and customer-facing energy programs (for example, efficiency or demand-side programs typical of municipal utilities). No proprietary technology stack, software platform, patents, or technology partnerships were disclosed in the input, and the company's own website content was not accessible during data collection (placeholder/loading page), so technical architecture details cannot be characterized from the evidence.

The business model is that of a regulated municipal electric utility: revenue is generated through retail electricity rates billed to end-users within the franchised service area, with oversight by local government and (where applicable) state regulatory bodies. As a non-profit public entity, LMUD does not pursue equity-funded growth, and there are no funding rounds, acquisitions, or investor-related disclosures in the record. The available data is thin on customer segmentation detail, pricing structure, and operating geographies beyond the Susanville/Lassen County footprint, which represents a meaningful data gap for any deeper financial or strategic analysis.

Name

Lassen Municipal Utility District

Legal name

Lassen Municipal Utility District

Website

https://www.lmud.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1986

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Lassen Municipal Utility District is a non-profit municipal electric utility founded in 1986 in Susanville, California, providing electric service, billing, and energy programs to residential and commercial customers in its Lassen County service territory.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Susanville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Infrastructure, Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel

Core offering

Lassen Municipal Utility District (LMUD) is a local government-owned municipal utility that provides electric utility service to residential and commercial customers in the Susanville/Lassen County area. The organization delivers electricity distribution, customer billing, and energy-related programs to its community-based ratepayers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Electric Utility Service Electricity distribution and supply service for residential and commercial customers in the Susanville/Lassen County service area. Customers receive power delivered through the local distribution grid managed by the district.

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Direct peers

• Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD): Large California municipal electric utility serving the Sacramento region under the same non-profit public-power model as LMUD; provides electric distribution, billing, and customer energy programs. Highly comparable business model despite much larger scale.
• Turlock Irrigation District: California Irrigation District that also operates as a municipal electric utility serving Turlock and surrounding Stanislaus County communities — same regulated municipal model, similar mix of residential and commercial customers.
• Modesto Irrigation District: California Irrigation District that doubles as a municipal electric utility in Stanislaus County. Operates under the same public-power, non-profit district structure as LMUD with a comparable residential and commercial customer base.
• Truckee Donner Public Utility District: Small California municipal utility district serving Truckee and surrounding mountain communities in the Sierra Nevada — same small-scale, mountain-region, non-profit public-power model as Lassen Municipal Utility District.
• Redding Electric Utility: City-owned municipal electric utility serving Redding, CA and adjacent Shasta County communities. Comparable California municipal electric distribution model with residential and commercial customer focus.
• Silicon Valley Power (City of Santa Clara Electric Utility): City-owned municipal electric utility serving Santa Clara, CA. Operates under the same non-profit municipal model as LMUD, providing electric service, billing, and customer programs to a residential and commercial customer base.

Regional players

• Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative: Member-owned rural electric cooperative serving Plumas, Lassen, and neighboring counties in northeastern California — directly adjacent to LMUD's service area. Comparable small-scale rural electric distribution with a non-profit, customer-owned governance structure.

Broad incumbents

• Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E): California's largest investor-owned electric and gas utility and the dominant electric service provider across most of the state, including regions surrounding LMUD. Operates the same core electric distribution business but at vastly greater scale and as a regulated IOU rather than a municipal district.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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