San Bernardino County, California Electricity Rates & Statistics

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On average, San Bernardino's residential electricity rate is 25.16 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 1.05% more than the average state price of 24.90 cents and 74.00% higher than the national average of 14.46. Solar power usage for electricity generation in the city has increased by 2,964 megawatt hours each year within the past year, which is a 79.87% increase from the year before. The California average monthly residential electric bill is $131.98, while the San Bernardino average is 21.77% less at $103.25 per month. This ranks the city 65th in the state for average monthly bill total.

Coming in at as the 31st worst ranked city out of 1617 cities in the state, San Bernardino emits 272,467,584.42 kilograms of CO2 emissions from electricity use. Perhaps a better measurement of pollution is the CO2 levels per capita, which amounts to 1,226.77 kilograms of CO2 emissions per person per year. Using this calculation San Bernardino is the 1552nd highest polluting city in California. Electricity facilities in the city most often use Conventional Hydroelectric, which makes up 108,670 megawatt hours (or 84.33%) of the fuel used for electricity generation in the city. Totaling Conventional Hydroelectric with Natural Gas (10.49%) and Solar (5.18%), these three fuels account for 100.00% of the city's electricity generation. San Bernardino is home to 5 power producing plants, which is the 21st highest number of power plants within a city in California.

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On average, Fontana's residential electricity rate is 25.16 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 1.05% more than the average state price of 24.90 cents and 74.00% higher than the national average of 14.46. There has been a 67.14% rise in electricity generated from solar in the city during the past 12 months. With 100.00% of its electricity generation coming from renewable fuel types, the city ranks 24th out of 1617 cities in California for total electricity production from renewable fuel types.

Electricity use in Fontana creates 276,459,547.24 kilograms of CO2 emissions. This is the 30th highest amount of any city in California. More telling of the city's emissions reality is the per person CO2 emission amount. Currently that amount stands at 1,326.63 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which results in them being the 1508th ranked city in California for CO2 pollution emitted per capita. The city is home to one electricity generation plant. In Fontana, Solar makes up 100.00% of the fuel types utilized for electricity production.