San Bernardino County, California Electric Profile

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On average, San Bernardino's residential electricity rate is 21.53 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 5.76% lower than the average state price of 22.85 cents and 56.47% higher than the national average of 13.76 cents. Generating 0.96 megawatt hours per citizen living in the city, San Bernardino ranks as the 107th highest producer per capita out of 1617 cities in the state. The city has had a 1.56% rise in megawatt hours produced by solar sources.

Coming in at as the 33rd worst ranked city out of 1617 cities in the state, San Bernardino emits 268,595,377.56 kilograms of CO2 emissions from electricity use. Perhaps a better measurement of pollution is the CO2 levels per capita, which amounts to 1,209.34 kilograms of CO2 emissions per person per year. Using this calculation San Bernardino is the 1553rd highest polluting city in California. Electricity facilities in the city most often use Conventional Hydroelectric, which makes up 190,609 megawatt hours (or 89.27%) of the fuel used for electricity generation in the city. Totaling Conventional Hydroelectric with Natural Gas (6.83%) and Solar (3.91%), these three fuels account for 100.00% of the city's electricity generation. San Bernardino is home to 6 power producing plants, which is the 24th highest number of power plants within a city in California.

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On average, Fontana's residential electricity rate is 21.53 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 5.76% lower than the average state price of 22.85 cents and 56.47% higher than the national average of 13.76 cents. There has been a 100.00% increase in the amount of electricity generated from solar energy over the past 12 months, which is an increase of 1,637 megawatt hours a year. With an estimated 3,127 total residential customers, Southern California Edison is the largest electricity provider in the city.

Electricity use in Fontana creates 292,238,150 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 1,402.34 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which results in them being the 1492nd 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.