Dickinson County, Iowa Electricity Rates & Statistics

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Spirit Lake has an average residential electricity rate of 16.94 cents per kilowatt hour. This is 32.95% above Iowa's average price of 12.74 cents. The city deals with an average of 0.72 power outages per customer each year. These outages are on average 81.55 minutes. In contrast, the nationwide average is 1.21 outages per customer and 122.99 minutes per outage. Selling an estimated 7,333.33 megawatt hours a year, Alliant Energy is the largest electricity provider in the city.

Coming in at as the 74th worst ranked city out of 1028 cities in the state, Spirit Lake emits 30,339,137.7 kilograms of CO2 emissions from electricity consumption per year. More importantly, the city averages 5,578.07 kilograms of CO2 emissions per resident, which is a better measurement of the city's pollution levels. They rank as the 91st worst in the state in this category. There are no power producing facilities in Spirit Lake, so citizens have to depend on power generated outside of the city limits.

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Milford has an average residential electricity rate of 12.19 cents per kilowatt hour. This is 4.33% below Iowa's average price of 12.74 cents. They obviously have work to do in regards to electricity related pollution as they had a 18.41% rise in CO2 emissions per capita over the course of the past 12 months. Production from non-renewable fuels makes up 0.17 megawatt hours per capita in the city.

Coming in at as the 114th worst ranked city out of 1028 cities in the state, Milford emits 18,767,539 kilograms of CO2 emissions from electricity consumption per year. The city also ranks 33rd highest in the state in pollution per citizen, averaging 5,651.17 kilograms of CO2 emissions emissions per resident. This is, perhaps, the more important of the two rankings. Around 100.00% of electricity in Milford comes from generation using Distillate Fuel Oil. There is one power producing plant in Milford.