Bristol County, Massachusetts Electricity Rates & Statistics

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New Bedford has an average residential electricity rate of 34.14 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 15.11% higher than the state's average rate of 29.66 cents and 105.34% higher than the national average of 16.62 cents. More electricity is consumed within New Bedford than is generated, with electricity usage adding up to 35267.83% of production. Customers in New Bedford deal with 0.86 electrical outages each year with outages lasting on average 100.37 minutes.

Coming in as the 10th worst ranked city out of 256 cities in the state, New Bedford emits 318,875,069.43 kilograms of CO2 emissions from electricity consumption. More telling of the city's emissions reality is the per person CO2 emission amount. That amount stands at 3,167.34 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which results in them being the 172nd ranked city in the state for CO2 emissions released per capita. The city is home to one electricity producing plant. New Bedford's main fuel type used for electricity production is Solar. The city generates 2,027 megawatt hours from this fuel source.

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Fall River has an average residential electricity rate of 30.05 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 1.34% higher than the state's average rate of 29.66 cents and 80.77% higher than the national average of 16.62 cents. More electricity is consumed within Fall River than is generated, with electricity usage adding up to 6775.98% of production. Customers in Fall River deal with 0.86 electrical outages each year with outages lasting on average 100.76 minutes.

Coming in as the 11th worst ranked city out of 256 cities in the state, Fall River emits 293,196,847.17 kilograms of CO2 emissions from electricity consumption. More telling of the city's emissions reality is the per person CO2 emission amount. That amount stands at 3,129.47 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which results in them being the 181st ranked city in the state for CO2 emissions released per capita. The city is home to 4 electricity producing plants, which is the 12th highest number of power plants within a city in Massachusetts out of the state's 256 cities. Fall River's power plants primarily use Solar, which makes up 100.00% (or 9,818 megawatt hours) of the fuel sources used for electricity production in the city.