Alameda County, California Electricity Rates & Statistics

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Oakland's average residential electricity rate per kilowatt hour is 28.82 cents per kilowatt hour. This is 9.77% lower than California's average price of 31.94 cents, resulting in the city ranking 369th out of 1617 cities in California for best average electricity price. Non-renewable fuel types are used to produce 4,756.46 megawatt hours in the city, which is 8.96% of their total generation. Citizens in the city have an average monthly residential electric bill of $102.85. This is 29.45% lower than the national average of $145.79.

Oakland has 3 power plants, which is the 54th highest out of any city in California. Power generating facilities in the city most often use Other Biomass Gas, which makes up 91.04% (or 48,337.54 megawatt hours) of the fuel types used for electricity generation in the city. Secondary fuels used during electricity generation include Jet Fuel at 8.31% and Distillate Fuel Oil at 0.65% of generation. Tracking emissions on a per capita basis gives us a glimpse of the emissions efficiency of a city. Oakland averages 1,142.65 kilograms of CO2 emissions per resident due to electricity consumption, which ranks them 96th worst in the state out of 1617 cities for emissions efficiency. While not as telling of a statistic (more people almost always equals more pollution), the total pollution of Oakland from electricity consumption is 491,944,702.16 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which ranks as the 9th highest amount in California.

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Fremont's average residential electricity rate per kilowatt hour is 28.77 cents per kilowatt hour. This is 9.92% lower than California's average price of 31.94 cents, resulting in the city ranking 350th out of 1617 cities in California for best average electricity price. With 22.44% of its electricity production coming from renewable fuels, the city ranks 175th in the state out of 1617 cities for total electricity generation from renewable fuel types. Fremont produces 0.91% of the electricity needed in the city and must import power from nearby municipalities or rural area power plants.

As the 29th worst ranked city out of 1617 cities in the state, Fremont emits 251,271,715.73 kilograms of CO2 emissions from electricity use. This total also equates to a ranking of 109th worst in California for emissions per citizen. Around 77.56% of electricity in Fremont comes from generation using Natural Gas. There are 3 power producing plants in Fremont, which is the 54th highest number of power plants in a city in the state.