Bernalillo County, New Mexico Electricity Rates & Statistics

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Albuquerque averages a residential electricity rate of 15.18 cents per kilowatt hour paid by their citizens. This is 6.13% more than New Mexico's average rate of 14.30 cents. The power grid in the city is faced with an average of 1.01 outages per consumer per year, with outages lasting about 119.12 minutes per outage. The US averages of outages and outage time frames are 1.45 outages a year and 171.11 minutes per outage. The average monthly residential power bill for a customer in the city is $87.28 per month.

Electricity consumption in Albuquerque creates 2,849,120,886.09 kilograms of CO2 emissions. This is the largest emissions amount of any city in New Mexico. This total also equates to a ranking of 7th highest in New Mexico for emissions per resident with an average of 5,078.59 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 93.07% (or 424,457 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 15.18 cents per kilowatt hour paid by their citizens. This is 6.13% more than New Mexico's average rate of 14.30 cents. There is 13.50% more electricity generated than consumed in South Valley CDP, leading to the ability to export the surplus. The city produces approximately 15.62 megawatt hours per capita per year from its power plants, which ranks them as the 11th highest producer out of 530 cities in New Mexico.

Emitting 313,525,061.08 kilograms of CO2 emissions a year, South Valley CDP ranks 5th 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 8,570.24 kilograms of CO2 emissions per person per year. This measurement ranks South Valley CDP as the 2nd 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 558,363.68 megawatt hours, or 97.68% 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 12,973.94 (2.27%) and 260.13 (0.05%) megawatt hours generated from each, respectively.