Middlesex County, Connecticut Electricity Rates & Statistics

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Middletown's inhabitants are billed an average residential electricity rate of 23.70 cents per kilowatt hour. Fortunately, this is 6.67% lower than the state's average price of 25.40 cents, ranking the city at 161st out of 219 cities in the state for best average electricity price. Companies within the city have achieved an increase in production from facilities specializing in solar power of approximately 174 megawatt hours, or 5.50%. Generation in Middletown is roughly 180.26% of the electricity demand of consumers, which leads to the exportation and storage of extra generation.

Middletown's main fuel consumed for electricity generation is Natural Gas. They produce 630,495.15 megawatt hours from this fuel source. Residual Fuel Oil and Kerosene are also highly used fuel sources in the city, with 0.61% and 0.57% of total electricity production being generated from each, respectively. The city citizens average 3,518.59 kilograms of CO2 emissions per capita from electricity use, which ranks them 3rd highest in Connecticut out of 219 in this category. Total emissions in the city are 165,950,713.61 kilograms, which is the 9th highest total amount of emissions for all cities in Connecticut. Middletown is home to 7 electricity generation plants, which is the 2nd most power plants within a city in Connecticut.

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Portland CDP's inhabitants are billed an average residential electricity rate of 23.70 cents per kilowatt hour. Fortunately, this is 6.67% lower than the state's average price of 25.40 cents, ranking the city at 89th out of 219 cities in the state for best average electricity price. Selling an estimated 15,335.3 megawatt hours a year, Eversource Energy is the largest supplier in the city.

Portland CDP has no power generation plants. The city is the 55th worst ranked city in the state out of 219 when it comes to total emissions from electricity use, with the city emitting 12,123,717.22 kilograms of CO2 emissions a year. More telling of the city's pollution reality is the per capita CO2 emission amount. That amount stands at 1,947.9 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which results in them being the 22nd highest polluting city in Connecticut when calculating by CO2 pollution per capita.