Boulder County, Colorado Electricity Rates & Statistics

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Citizens who call Boulder home spend, on average, 14.43 cents per kilowatt hour for their electricity. Thankfully, this is 0.97% less than Colorado's average price of 14.57 cents, resulting in the city ranking 235th out of 482 cities in Colorado for best average electricity rate. Boulder citizens use 6069.20% of the electricity generated within the city boundaries and the city must use electricity produced in rural areas or other nearby cities to make up the difference. Power plants in the city generate, on average, 0.03 megawatt hours per capita from non-renewable fuel sources, which ranks it 11th out of 482 cities in Colorado.

When considering electricity production, Boulder's top fuel type is Solar, making up 81.41%, or 13,798 megawatt hours of production in the city. Taken together with Natural Gas (18.52%) and Distillate Fuel Oil (0.07%), these three fuel types make up 100.00% city electricity generation. Electricity use in the city results in the release of 465,420,785.69 kilograms of CO2 pollution per year, which is the 12th highest in Colorado out of 482 cities. Perhaps a better measurement of pollution is the CO2 levels per resident in the city, which amounts to 4,412.32 kilograms of CO2 emissions per person per year. Using this calculation the city is the 453rd highest polluting city in Colorado. Boulder has the 9th most electricity generation plants of any city in Colorado, with 2 total power plants.

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Citizens who call Longmont home spend, on average, 12.40 cents per kilowatt hour for their electricity. Thankfully, this is 14.92% less than Colorado's average price of 14.57 cents, resulting in the city ranking 7th out of 482 cities in Colorado for best average electricity rate. The electricity grid in the city experiences an average of 0.92 outages per customer each year, with outages lasting about 95.02 minutes. The US averages of outages and outage time frames are 1.45 outages per year and 171.11 minutes per outage. Selling an estimated 504,630.76 megawatt hours, City of Longmont Electric is the largest supplier in the city.

Longmont is the 14th highest ranked city in Colorado out of 482 when it comes to total pollution from electricity use, with the city emitting 450,620,276.93 kilograms of CO2 emissions. This total also equates to a ranking of 11th worst in the state for emissions per capita. The city has no power production sources, resulting in the need to import the 981,558.62 megawatt hours that citizens here consume.