Macon County, Illinois Electricity Rates & Statistics

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Inhabitants who call Decatur home pay an average residential electricity rate of 14.01 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 3.17% less than the average Illinois rate of 14.47 cents. The city ranks 2nd out of 1466 cities in the state for electricity produced per capita from natural gas usage. Generation in the city involving coal usage produces 1,123,213.49 megawatt hours of electricity. This ranks the city 3rd out of 1466 cities in the state.

Decatur residents average 5,840.95 kilograms of CO2 emissions per capita from electricity consumption, which is sufficient to rank them 11th highest in the state out of 1466 in this category. With total emissions of 411,915,264.04 kilograms, the city ranks 8th highest in the state for total pollution from electricity use, however, it could be argued that emissions per capita is a better measurement of a city's pollution levels. Around 99.74% of electricity in Decatur comes from production using Coal. Adding Coal totals to Natural Gas (0.16%) and Tire-derived Fuels (0.10%), these three fuel types make up 1,126,087 megawatt hours (or 100.00%) electricity production in the city. Decatur has one electricity producing plant.

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Inhabitants who call Mount Zion home pay an average residential electricity rate of 14.09 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 2.62% less than the average Illinois rate of 14.47 cents. The average residential electricity bill for a citizen in the city is $100.42 per month, while the national average is $129.86. With an estimated 54 residential customers, Ameren Illinois is the largest provider in the city.

Tracking emissions on a per capita basis gives us a glimpse of the emissions efficiency of a city. Mount Zion averages 3,231.86 kilograms of CO2 emissions per capita from electricity consumption, which is sufficient to rank them 117th highest in the state out of 1466 cities for emissions efficiency. This comes to a total pollution amount from electricity use of 19,452,574.63 kilograms. There are no power generation plants in the city.