Champaign County, Illinois Electricity Rates & Statistics

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The average residential electricity price for Champaign is about 19.01 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 20.99% more than the average Illinois rate of 15.71 cents and 18.75% higher than the nationwide average of 16.01. Champaign produces 25.43% of the electricity needed in the city and must power from plants outside of their city limits or rural area power generation facilities. The city's use of renewable fuel sources for electricity generation amounts to 0.25 megawatt hours per person. This results in a ranking of 51st out of 1466 cities in the state.

Champaign's electricity consumption results in CO2 pollution totaling 223,566,331.43 kilograms, which is 10th largest amount in the state out of 1466 cities. The city also ranks 27th worst in the state in emissions per capita, averaging 2,505.09 kilograms of CO2 emissions emissions per capita. Roughly 86.13% of Champaign's electricity is generated using Natural Gas. Also used is Solar at 9.46% and Coal at 4.36%. 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 19.00 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 20.93% more than the average Illinois rate of 15.71 cents and 18.69% higher than the nationwide average of 16.01. Urbana produces 1.60% of the electricity needed in the city and must power from plants outside of their city limits or rural area power generation facilities. The city is the 76th highest producing city out of 1466 cities in the state, averaging 0.17 megawatt hours produced per capita.

Emitting 89,945,872.73 kilograms of CO2 emissions each year, Urbana is the 51st worst out of 1466 cities in the state for total emissions from electricity use. Additionally, the city ranks 1413th 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.