Schenectady County, New York Electricity Rates & Statistics

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Schenectady's residents are billed an average residential electricity price of 19.28 cents per kilowatt hour. This is 3.87% less than New York's average rate of 20.05 cents, resulting in the city ranking 508th lowest for average electricity price out of 1306 cities in the state. The city deals with an average of 0.75 power outages per customer per year. These outages last an average of 165.34 minutes. In comparison, the national average is 1.21 outages per consumer and 122.99 minutes per outage. The largest electricity supplier in the city based on megawatt hours sold is National Grid.

Schenectady has zero electricity plants. About 1,632.86 kilograms of CO2 emissions per citizen are released in the city due to electricity use, making them the 279th worst polluter in the state out of 1306 cities. At 1,632.86 kilograms per person and 67,047 residents in the city, the city emits 109,478,299.94 kilograms of CO2 emissions a year.

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Rotterdam CDP's residents are billed an average residential electricity price of 19.28 cents per kilowatt hour. This is 3.87% less than New York's average rate of 20.05 cents, resulting in the city ranking 603rd lowest for average electricity price out of 1306 cities in the state. National Grid is the largest provider in the city based on residential customer count. The city produces approximately 0.08 megawatt hours per person a year from its power plants, which ranks it as the 100th highest producing city out of 1306 cities in New York.

For the purpose of electricity production, Rotterdam CDP's top fuel type is Solar, making up 100.00%, or 1,940 megawatt hours of generation in the city. Approximately 37,050,968.48 kilograms of CO2 emissions are released a year in the city because of electricity use. More telling of the city's emissions reality is the per citizen CO2 emission amount. That amount stands at 1,613.16 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which results in them being the 1238th highest polluting city in the state when calculating by CO2 emissions per capita. Rotterdam CDP has one electricity generation plant.