Sonoma County, California Electricity Rates & Statistics

Interactive Map

On average, residents living within Santa Rosa are billed a residential electricity rate of 33.72 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 15.46% above the state's average rate of 29.21 cents. This makes the city 963rd lowest for average electricity rate out of 1617 cities in California. The city is ranked 81st in the state in total electricity generated from electrical power plants within its borders, with 46,868 megawatt hours produced. The national average monthly residential electric bill is $138.02, while the Santa Rosa average is 16.77% more at $161.17 per month.

Electricity use in Santa Rosa has byproducts of 222,253,818.36 kilograms of CO2 emissions. This is the 35th highest amount of any city in the state. This total results in 1,254.36 kilograms of CO2 emissions per resident, so the city ranks 83rd worst in California for emissions per capita. The city has 3 electricity plants within its borders. This is the 50th most plants in a single city out of 1617 cities, in California. Santa Rosa's top fuel source consumed for electricity generation is Natural Gas. They produce 35,539.9 megawatt hours, or 75.83% of the total production in the city, from this fuel. Other Biomass Gas and Solar account for 24.15% and 0.02% of electricity production, respectively.

Interactive Map

On average, residents living within Petaluma are billed a residential electricity rate of 33.72 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 15.46% above the state's average rate of 29.21 cents. This makes the city 963rd lowest for average electricity rate out of 1617 cities in California. Solar production plants in the city produce 0.08 megawatt hours per citizen living within the city. The city produces about 0.08 megawatt hours per consumer in the city per year from its power generating plants, which makes it the 212th highest producing city in the state out of 1617 cities.

Petaluma emits 1,196.57 kilograms of CO2 pollution per capita due to electricity consumption, which makes it the 1461st worst polluting city out of 1617 cities in the state based on emissions per capita. This comes to a total pollution amount of 71,853,747.06 kilograms of CO2 emissions. There is one electricity plant in the city. Petaluma's main fuel consumed for electricity generation is Solar. They generate 4,706 megawatt hours from this fuel type.