Champaign County, Illinois Electricity Rates & Statistics

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The average residential electricity price for Champaign is about 17.70 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 9.31% more than the average Illinois rate of 16.19 cents and 6.47% higher than the nationwide average of 16.62. Customers in Champaign deal with 0.91 power outages per year with outages lasting on average 113.71 minutes. There is a deficiency of 691,749.62 megawatt hours in the city due to the fact that consumers are using 265.31% more electricity than is produced. This results in the city needing to import supplemental megawatt hours.

Champaign's electricity consumption results in CO2 pollution totaling 231,505,540.94 kilograms, which is 10th largest amount in the state out of 1466 cities. The city also ranks 24th worst in the state in emissions per capita, averaging 2,594.04 kilograms of CO2 emissions emissions per capita. Roughly 86.21% of Champaign's electricity is generated using Natural Gas. Also used is Solar at 9.86% and Coal at 3.92%. Champaign is home to 5 electricity producing plants, which is the 3rd most plants within a city in Illinois.

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The average residential electricity price for Urbana is about 17.70 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 9.31% more than the average Illinois rate of 16.19 cents and 6.47% higher than the nationwide average of 16.62. The city has a shortage of 411,515.12 megawatt hours because of customers using 6110.10% more electricity than the city's electricity facilities generate. This results in the need to import supplemental electricity. Solar facilities in the city produce 6,735 megawatt hours, which is 100.00% of the city's electricity generation.

Emitting 93,161,699.33 kilograms of CO2 emissions each year, Urbana is the 49th worst out of 1466 cities in the state for total emissions from electricity use. Additionally, the city ranks 1404th highest in the state in emissions per person, which could be argued to be the more important statistic. There are 2 power producing plants in the city, which is the 15th most plants in a city in the state. Urbana's power plants most often use Solar, which makes up 100.00% of the fuel used for electricity generation in the city.