Bernalillo County, New Mexico Electricity Rates & Statistics

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Albuquerque averages a residential electricity rate of 15.21 cents per kilowatt hour paid by their citizens. This is 7.25% more than New Mexico's average rate of 14.18 cents. The power grid in the city is faced with an average of 0.91 outages per consumer per year, with outages lasting about 94.41 minutes per outage. The US averages of outages and outage time frames are 1.27 outages a year and 137.24 minutes per outage. The average monthly residential power bill for a customer in the city is $87.93 per month.

Electricity consumption in Albuquerque creates 2,830,175,930.05 kilograms of CO2 emissions. This is the largest emissions amount of any city in New Mexico. This total also equates to a ranking of 6th highest in New Mexico for emissions per resident with an average of 5,044.82 kilograms of emissions per citizen. The city is home to 5 electricity producing plants, which is the highest for a city in the state. Albuquerque's power plants primarily use Natural Gas, which accounts for 93.27% (or 467,411 megawatt hours) of the fuel types used for electricity generation in the city.

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South Valley CDP averages a residential electricity rate of 15.21 cents per kilowatt hour paid by their citizens. This is 7.25% more than New Mexico's average rate of 14.18 cents. The power grid in the city is faced with an average of 0.91 outages per consumer per year, with outages lasting about 94.41 minutes per outage. The US averages of outages and outage time frames are 1.27 outages a year and 137.24 minutes per outage. Public Service Company of New Mexico sells an estimated 65,524.77 megawatt hours in the city a year, more than all other electricity suppliers.

Emitting 251,739,385.07 kilograms of CO2 emissions a year, South Valley CDP ranks 6th highest out of 530 cities in New Mexico for total pollution from electricity consumption. Perhaps a better measurement of pollution is the CO2 emissions per citizen in the city, which is 6,881.32 kilograms of CO2 emissions per person per year. This measurement ranks South Valley CDP as the 3rd highest polluting city in the state. The city has 2 power plants, which is the 3rd highest out of any city in the state. South Valley CDP's top fuel used for electricity production is Natural Gas. They produce 268,987.24 megawatt hours, or 95.08% of the total generation in the city, from this fuel source. Other Biomass Gas and Distillate Fuel Oil are also highly used fuel sources in the city, with 13,044.67 (4.61%) and 876.41 (0.31%) megawatt hours generated from each, respectively.