Orange County, North Carolina Electricity Rates & Statistics

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Inhabitants who call Chapel Hill 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 13.86 and 16.17 cents per kilowatt hour, respectively. Production in the city from natural gas averaged 0.3 megawatt hours per person, which is 4th out of 777 cities in the state. There is 1972.50% more electricity used in Chapel Hill than is produced, eliciting the need to import from neighboring municipalities.

Tracking emissions on a per capita basis shows us the emissions efficiency of a city. Chapel Hill averages 4,190.81 kilograms of CO2 emissions per resident due to electricity use. A total of 255,304,075.61 kilograms of CO2 emissions are emitted from the city. Around 51.84% of Chapel Hill's electricity is generated using Natural Gas. Chapel Hill has one electricity producing plant in the city.

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Inhabitants who call Carrboro home spend, on average, 13.49 cents per kilowatt hour for their electricity , which is lower than both the state and the United States average prices of 13.86 and 16.17 cents per kilowatt hour, respectively. Duke Energy Carolinas sells an estimated 25,976.77 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 1.22 outages per customer each year, with outages lasting around 152.71 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. Carrboro averages 4,079.75 kilograms of CO2 emissions per resident due to electricity use. This results in a total emissions amount from electricity use of 86,641,632.68 kilograms of CO2 emissions. The city has no electricity production sources, resulting in the need to import the 275,967.21 megawatt hours the residents consume annually.