Riverside County, California Electricity Rates & Statistics

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The average residential electricity price for Riverside is around 21.05 cents per kilowatt hour. Thankfully, this is 34.05% less than California's average rate of 31.91 cents, which ranks the city 179th best for average electricity rate out of 1617 cities in California. Electricity plants in the city are fueled by non-renewable fuels for 63.95% of the megawatt hours they produce. The city ranks 104th out of 1617 cities in the state for solar generation per capita, with 0.09 megawatt hours per person being produced.

Emitting 383,603,930.85 kilograms of CO2 emissions per year, Riverside is the 14th worst out of 1617 cities in the state for total emissions from electricity use. The city also ranks 81st worst in the state in pollution per person in the city, averaging 1,195.83 kilograms of CO2 emissions emissions per resident. The top fuel source used in Riverside is Natural Gas. They generate 63.95% of the total production in the city from this fuel source. Solar and Other Biomass Gas are the second and third most often used fuels for electricity generation. Solar makes up 28.17% of electricity production and Other Biomass Gas accounts for 7.88% of total production in the city. Riverside has 8 electricity producing plants within its borders. This is the 19th highest amount of plants within a single city in California.

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The average residential electricity price for Moreno Valley is around 40.79 cents per kilowatt hour. Sadly, this is 27.84% higher than California's average rate of 31.91 cents, which ranks the city 1011th best average for electricity rate out of 1617 cities in California. The city is ranked 178th in the state in total electricity produced from power generating plants within its borders, with 6,529 megawatt hours generated. Selling an estimated 219,902.77 megawatt hours, Moreno Valley California Electric Utility is the largest electricity supplier in the city.

The consumption of electricity in Moreno Valley accounts for 240,611,532.15 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which is the 31st highest in the state out of 1617 cities. More telling of the city's emissions reality is the per resident CO2 emission amount. That amount stands at 1,135.42 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which results in them being the 1439th ranked city in the state for CO2 pollution emitted per capita. Solar makes up 100.00% of the fuel types used for electricity generation in Moreno Valley. Moreno Valley has the 89th highest power generation plants of any city in California, with 2 total power plants.