Worcester County, Massachusetts Electricity Rates & Statistics

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The residential electricity rate is 26.89 cents per kilowatt hour for residents of Worcester, which is 0.79% higher than the average state price of 26.68 cents and 75.30% above the national average of 15.34. The city is ranked 14th in the state in total electricity produced from power generating plants within its borders, with 95,685.02 megawatt hours generated. There was a 1.86% increase in the burning of fossil fuels and other non-renewable fuels in the city.

In Worcester, Natural Gas makes up 93.21% of the fuel sources utilized in electricity production. Solar and Distillate Fuel Oil are also primary fuel sources in the city, with 6.52% and 0.19% of total electricity generation coming from each type, respectively. On average, the city citizens emit 3,251.86 kilograms of CO2 emissions from the consumption of electricity, which makes it the 189th highest polluting city out of 256 cities in Massachusetts based on emissions per capita. A total of 662,946,285.01 kilograms of CO2 emissions are emitted from the city. Worcester has 4 power generation plants, which is the 12th highest for a city in the state.

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The residential electricity rate is 26.87 cents per kilowatt hour for residents of Leominster, which is 0.72% higher than the average state price of 26.68 cents and 75.16% above the national average of 15.34. Solar gardens in the city generate 0.26 megawatt hours per person living within the city. Consumers in the city experience 0.26 electrical outages a year, with outages lasting an average of 12.1 minutes. The national averages for these data points are 1.58 outages at 145.81 minutes each.

Leominster has 3 electricity generation plants, which is the 14th most out of any city in Massachusetts. Emissions in the city average 3,151.13 kilograms of CO2 emissions per citizen from electricity use, making them the 209th worst polluting city out of 256 cities in the state based on emissions per capita. This comes to a total emissions amount of 137,004,990.12 kilograms of CO2 emissions. In Leominster, Solar is 100.00% of the fuel used for electricity production.