York County, Maine Electricity Rates & Statistics

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Biddeford's inhabitants are billed an average residential electricity rate of 21.22 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 8.28% lower than Maine's average price of 23.14 cents. This makes the city 12th best for average electricity rate out of 157 cities in Maine. Central Maine Power has an estimated 1,707 total residential customers, more than any other provider who operates in the city. Consumers in the city are faced with 1.02 electrical outages a year, with outages lasting about 112.73 minutes on average. The national averages for outages and duration are 1.58 outages at 145.81 minutes each.

Biddeford emits 2,533.02 kilograms of CO2 pollution per citizen in the city from electricity consumption, which makes it the 52nd highest polluting city out of 157 cities in Maine based on emissions per capita. While not as telling of a statistic, the total emissions of the city from electricity use is 56,564,823.73 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which ranks as the 6th largest emissions amount in the state. All of the electricity consumed in Biddeford has to be sourced from surrounding cities or rural areas, because there are no electricity production sources within its borders.

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Sanford's inhabitants are billed an average residential electricity rate of 21.22 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 8.28% lower than Maine's average price of 23.14 cents. This makes the city 12th best for average electricity rate out of 157 cities in Maine. There has been a 8.78% increase in the amount of electricity generated from solar fields over the past 12 months, which is an increase of 7,669 megawatt hours per year. Solar production facilities in the city produce, on average, 4.36 megawatt hours per resident living in the city. This makes the city the 1st in Maine out of 157 cities.

Sanford emits 1,235.59 kilograms of CO2 pollution per citizen in the city from electricity consumption, which makes it the 149th highest polluting city out of 157 cities in Maine based on emissions per capita. While not as telling of a statistic, the total emissions of the city from electricity use is 26,950,710.63 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which ranks as the 11th largest emissions amount in the state. The city is home to one power generation plant. Sanford has around 100.00% of its electricity produced by Solar.