Pueblo County, Colorado Electricity Rates & Statistics

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Pueblo averages a residential electricity rate of 17.80 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 21.60% more than the state's average price of 14.64 cents. This makes the city 431st lowest for average electricity price out of 483 cities in the state. There are approximately 58.09 megawatt hours per resident generated from the use of coal in the city. The city's use of renewable fuel types for electricity generation totals 0.02 megawatt hours per citizen, which ranks the city 5th in the state out of 483 cities.

The use of electricity in Pueblo accounts for 991,645,638.34 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which is the 4th largest emissions amount in the state out of 483 cities. More telling of the city's emissions reality is the per capita CO2 emission amount. That amount stands at 8,899.75 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which results in them being the 2nd ranked city in the state for CO2 emissions released per capita. About 81.56% of electricity in Pueblo comes from production using Coal. Natural Gas and Wind make up the next highest amounts of fuel used at 18.41% and 0.03% of total electricity production, respectively. Pueblo has 3 electricity generation plants, which is the most for a city in Colorado.

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Pueblo West CDP averages a residential electricity rate of 17.35 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 18.52% more than the state's average price of 14.64 cents. This makes the city 421st lowest for average electricity price out of 483 cities in the state. The electricity grid in the city has an average of 0.96 outages per consumer a year, with outages lasting roughly 124 minutes each. The countrywide averages of outages and outage time frames are 1.58 outages each year and 145.81 minutes per outage. The US average monthly residential electric bill is $147.64, while the Pueblo West CDP average is 28.50% lower at $105.56 per month.

On average, Pueblo West CDP citizens emit 4,937.37 kilograms of CO2 emissions from electricity usage, which makes it the 44th highest polluting city out of 483 cities in the state. This adds up to total emissions of 162,888,713.63 kilograms of CO2 emissions, ranking the city 28th highest for total pollution in the state. All of the electricity consumed in Pueblo West CDP has to be brought in from neighboring cities or rural areas, because there are no power generation sources in the city.