Catawba County, North Carolina Electricity Rates & Statistics

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Inhabitants who call Hickory home spend, on average, 13.09 cents per kilowatt hour for their electricity , which is lower than both the state and the United States average prices of 13.80 and 16.14 cents per kilowatt hour, respectively. Duke Energy Carolinas sells an estimated 152,886.34 megawatt hours in the city per year, which is more than any other electricity supplier. The electricity grid in the city has an average of 1.2 outages per customer each year, with outages lasting around 157.13 minutes per outage. The US averages of these two data points are 1.45 outages a year and 171.11 minutes each outage.

Tracking emissions on a per capita basis shows us the emissions efficiency of a city. Hickory averages 3,983.95 kilograms of CO2 emissions per resident due to electricity use. This results in a total emissions amount from electricity use of 170,636,741.14 kilograms of CO2 emissions. The city has no electricity production sources, resulting in the need to import the 551,255.48 megawatt hours the residents consume annually.

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Inhabitants who call Newton home spend, on average, 14.44 cents per kilowatt hour for their electricity, which ranks the city 375th out of 777 cities in North Carolina. With an estimated 4,949 residential customers, Newton Electric is the largest supplier in the city.

Tracking emissions on a per capita basis shows us the emissions efficiency of a city. Newton averages 3,983.95 kilograms of CO2 emissions per resident due to electricity use. This results in a total emissions amount from electricity use of 52,114,104.52 kilograms of CO2 emissions. The city has no electricity production sources, resulting in the need to import the 168,358.73 megawatt hours the residents consume annually.