Cattaraugus County, New York Electric Profile

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Olean's residents spend, on average, 15.54 cents per kilowatt hour for their electricity. Thankfully, this is 20.06% lower than New York's average price of 19.44 cents. With an estimated 346 residential customers, National Grid is the largest provider in the city. There has been a 17.59% drop in the use of renewable fuels (like solar, wind or hydro power) in Olean within the past 12 months.

In Olean, Natural Gas makes up 89.92% of the fuel used for electricity generation. Solar and Distillate Fuel Oil account for 10.03% and 0.05% of electricity production, respectively. The city residents average 2,972.32 kilograms of CO2 emissions per resident from electricity use, which ranks them 21st highest in New York out of 1306 in this category. This comes to a total pollution amount of 41,425,229.14 kilograms of CO2 emissions. Olean has 4 power generation plants, which is the 4th highest out of any city in the state.

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Salamanca's residents spend, on average, 13.72 cents per kilowatt hour for their electricity. Thankfully, this is 29.41% less than New York's average price of 19.44 cents. The city has an average of 0.75 electrical outages per consumer per year. These outages are on average 165.34 minutes. In contrast, the US average is 1.21 outages per consumer and 122.99 minutes per outage. The average monthly residential electric bill for a consumer in the city is $101.62 per month, while the nationwide average is $122.19.

The electricity sold in Salamanca has to be sourced from neighboring cities and rural areas, since there are no power production plants in the city. For every citizen in the city there are 1,584.85 kilograms of CO2 emissions. Total emissions in the city are 9,396,588.5 kilograms, which is the 317th worst total amount of pollution for all cities in the state.