San Bernardino County, California Electricity Rates & Statistics

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On average, San Bernardino's residential electricity rate is 39.93 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 25.05% more than the average state price of 31.93 cents and 140.17% higher than the national average of 16.62. The city produces around 3.49 megawatt hours per resident each year from its electricity generating plants, which makes them the 73rd highest producing city out of 1617 cities in California. Customers in the city have 0.94 power outages per year, with outages lasting about 95.86 minutes on average. The national averages for these data points are 1.44 outages at 123.49 minutes each.

Coming in at as the 80th worst ranked city out of 1617 cities in the state, San Bernardino emits 113,974,500.71 kilograms of CO2 emissions from electricity use. Perhaps a better measurement of pollution is the CO2 levels per capita, which amounts to 517.33 kilograms of CO2 emissions per person per year. Using this calculation San Bernardino is the 1527th highest polluting city in California. Electricity facilities in the city most often use Conventional Hydroelectric, which makes up 749,828 megawatt hours (or 97.47%) of the fuel used for electricity generation in the city. Totaling Conventional Hydroelectric with Solar (1.25%) and Other Biomass Gas (1.23%), these three fuels account for 99.96% of the city's electricity generation. San Bernardino is home to 10 power producing plants, which is the 13th highest number of power plants within a city in California.

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On average, Fontana's residential electricity rate is 40.74 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 27.61% more than the average state price of 31.93 cents and 145.08% higher than the national average of 16.62. There has been a 1014.61% increase in the use of renewable fuels (think solar, wind or hydro power) in Fontana over the last year. It's great to see these fuels slowly replace nonrenewable fuels like coal and oil. The city generates 7,479 megawatt hours, which is 100.00% of their total generation, from renewable fuel types

Electricity use in Fontana creates 233,849,520.75 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 1,100.74 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which results in them being the 1442nd 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.