Cumberland County, Maine Electricity Rates & Statistics

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On average, Portland's residential electricity rate is 19.73 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 4.58% lower than the average state price of 20.68 cents and 36.47% higher than the national average of 14.46 cents. There has been a 37.71% drop in usage of non-renewable fuel types in the city over the course of the past 12 months. Customers in the city are faced with 0.94 electrical outages per year, with outages lasting around 101.13 minutes on average. The national averages for outages and duration are 1.21 outages at 122.99 minutes each.

Coming in at as the worst ranked city out of 157 cities in the state, Portland emits 276,352,738.3 kilograms of CO2 emissions from electricity use. Perhaps a better measurement of pollution is the CO2 levels per capita, which amounts to 4,039.77 kilograms of CO2 emissions per person per year. Using this calculation Portland is the 5th highest polluting city in Maine. Electricity facilities in the city most often use Non-biogenic Municipal Solid Waste, which makes up 30,520.23 megawatt hours (or 54.66%) of the fuel used for electricity generation in the city. Totaling Non-biogenic Municipal Solid Waste with Biogenic Municipal Solid Waste (44.72%) and Natural Gas (0.62%), these three fuels account for 100.00% of the city's electricity generation. Portland is home to one power producing plant.

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On average, South Portland's residential electricity rate is 19.73 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 4.58% lower than the average state price of 20.68 cents and 36.47% higher than the national average of 14.46 cents. Central Maine Power sells an estimated 5,634.38 megawatt hours in the city each year, which is more than any other vendor. Fortunately, the city experienced a 0.40% drop in CO2 emissions per capita over the past year.

Electricity use in South Portland creates 67,434,380.56 kilograms of CO2 emissions. This is the 4th highest amount of any city in Maine. More telling of the city's emissions reality is the per person CO2 emission amount. Currently that amount stands at 2,544.89 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which results in them being the 8th ranked city in Maine for CO2 pollution emitted per capita. The city is home to one electricity generation plant. In South Portland, Distillate Fuel Oil makes up 100.00% of the fuel types utilized for electricity production.