Riverside County, California Electricity Rates & Statistics

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The average residential electricity price for Riverside is around 16.95 cents per kilowatt hour. Thankfully, this is 31.91% less than California's average rate of 24.90 cents, which ranks the city 166th best for average electricity rate out of 1617 cities in California. Electricity plants in the city are fueled by non-renewable fuels for 84.93% of the megawatt hours they produce. Solar gardens in the city produce, on average, 0.01 megawatt hours per person living within the city. This makes the city the 102nd out of 1617 cities in the state.

Emitting 440,288,124.38 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 73rd worst in the state in pollution per person in the city, averaging 1,397.75 kilograms of CO2 emissions emissions per resident. The top fuel source used in Riverside is Natural Gas. They generate 84.93% of the total production in the city from this fuel source. Other Biomass Gas and Solar are the second and third most often used fuels for electricity generation. Other Biomass Gas makes up 10.79% of electricity production and Solar accounts for 4.27% of total production in the city. Riverside has 4 electricity producing plants within its borders. This is the 29th highest amount of plants within a single city in California.

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The average residential electricity price for Moreno Valley is around 23.98 cents per kilowatt hour. Thankfully, this is 3.71% less than California's average rate of 24.90 cents, which ranks the city 253rd best for average electricity rate out of 1617 cities in California. With annual generation of 2,223 megawatt hours, the city is the 184th largest producer of electricity in the state. There has been a 52.36% increase in the amount of electricity produced from solar power over the past year, which is an increase of 764 megawatt hours each year.

The consumption of electricity in Moreno Valley accounts for 276,888,688.48 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which is the 29th 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 1,327.15 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which results in them being the 1506th 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 58th highest power generation plants of any city in California, with 2 total power plants.