Catawba County, North Carolina Electricity Rates & Statistics

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Inhabitants who call Hickory home spend, on average, 14.06 cents per kilowatt hour for their electricity, which ranks the city 359th out of 777 cities in North Carolina. Duke Energy Carolinas sells an estimated 154,972.73 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 1.26 outages per customer each year, with outages lasting around 158.4 minutes per outage. The US averages of these two data points are 1.44 outages a year and 123.49 minutes each outage.

Tracking emissions on a per capita basis shows us the emissions efficiency of a city. Hickory averages 4,024.1 kilograms of CO2 emissions per resident due to electricity use. This results in a total emissions amount from electricity use of 172,356,335.75 kilograms of CO2 emissions. The city has no electricity production sources, resulting in the need to import the 556,221.43 megawatt hours the residents consume annually.

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Inhabitants who call Newton home spend, on average, 13.35 cents per kilowatt hour for their electricity , which is lower than both the state and the United States average prices of 13.98 and 16.73 cents per kilowatt hour, respectively. The average monthly residential electricity bill for a citizen in the city is $134.86 per month, while the national average is $147.16. Newton Electric sells an estimated 157,746.87 megawatt hours in the city each year, which is more than all other suppliers.

Tracking emissions on a per capita basis shows us the emissions efficiency of a city. Newton averages 4,024.1 kilograms of CO2 emissions per resident due to electricity use. This results in a total emissions amount from electricity use of 52,639,285.28 kilograms of CO2 emissions. The city has no electricity production sources, resulting in the need to import the 169,875.38 megawatt hours the residents consume annually.