Merrimack County, New Hampshire Electricity Rates & Statistics

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On average, Concord's residential electricity rate is 21.36 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 1.33% lower than the average state price of 21.65 cents and 47.74% higher than the national average of 14.46 cents. Power facilities in the city have achieved a 3.15% rise the use of renewable energy versus non-renewable and fossil fuels. With an estimated 3,155 total residential customers, Eversource Energy is the largest supplier in the city.

Coming in at as the worst ranked city out of 100 cities in the state, Concord emits 218,526,893.22 kilograms of CO2 emissions from electricity use. Perhaps a better measurement of pollution is the CO2 levels per capita, which amounts to 4,969.23 kilograms of CO2 emissions per person per year. Using this calculation Concord is the 2nd highest polluting city in New Hampshire. Electricity facilities in the city most often use Non-biogenic Municipal Solid Waste, which makes up 52,560.26 megawatt hours (or 44.25%) of the fuel used for electricity generation in the city. Totaling Non-biogenic Municipal Solid Waste with Biogenic Municipal Solid Waste (36.21%) and Conventional Hydroelectric (19.54%), these three fuels account for 100.00% of the city's electricity generation. Concord is home to 2 power producing plants, which is the 2nd highest number of power plants within a city in New Hampshire.

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On average, Franklin's residential electricity rate is 21.36 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 1.33% lower than the average state price of 21.65 cents and 47.74% higher than the national average of 14.46 cents. There has been a 1.68% increase in the use of renewable fuels (think solar, wind or hydro power) in Franklin over the last year. It's great to see these fuels slowly replace nonrenewable fuels like coal and oil. According to government data, there are 25,061 megawatt hours of electricity produced at the hydroelectric dams in the city.

Electricity use in Franklin creates 9,427,988.96 kilograms of CO2 emissions. This is the 23rd highest amount of any city in New Hampshire. More telling of the city's emissions reality is the per person CO2 emission amount. Currently that amount stands at 1,078.59 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which results in them being the 96th ranked city in New Hampshire for CO2 pollution emitted per capita. The city is home to 2 electricity generation plants, which is the 2nd highest for a city in the state. In Franklin, Conventional Hydroelectric makes up 100.00% of the fuel sources used in electricity generation.