Bristol County, Massachusetts Electricity Rates & Statistics

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New Bedford has an average residential electricity rate of 24.76 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 2.78% higher than the state's average rate of 24.09 cents and 71.20% higher than the national average of 14.46 cents. More electricity is consumed within New Bedford than is generated, with electricity usage adding up to 32255.98% of production. Constellation Energy is the largest electricity supplier in the city based on megawatt hours sold.

Coming in as the 10th worst ranked city out of 256 cities in the state, New Bedford emits 339,363,972.78 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 3,357.41 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which results in them being the 189th 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 2,269 megawatt hours from this fuel source.

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Fall River has an average residential electricity rate of 25.56 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 6.13% higher than the state's average rate of 24.09 cents and 76.78% higher than the national average of 14.46 cents. More electricity is consumed within Fall River than is generated, with electricity usage adding up to 3689.26% of production. Customers in Fall River deal with 0.75 electrical outages each year with outages lasting on average 165.34 minutes.

Coming in as the 11th worst ranked city out of 256 cities in the state, Fall River emits 323,937,453.51 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 3,446.14 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which results in them being the 3rd ranked city in the state for CO2 emissions released per capita. The city is home to 2 electricity producing plants, which is the 18th highest number of power plants within a city in Massachusetts out of the state's 256 cities. Fall River's power plants primarily use Landfill Gas, which makes up 60.13% (or 11,094 megawatt hours) of the fuel sources used for electricity production in the city.