Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Electricity Rates & Statistics

Interactive Map

The residential electricity rate is 16.69 cents per kilowatt hour for inhabitants of Philadelphia, which is 12.87% above the average Pennsylvania price of 14.79 cents. The city generates about 0.62 megawatt hours per resident each year from its power plants, which makes it the 26th highest generating city out of 1892 cities in the state. With an estimated 86,309 total residential customers, PECO Energy Company is the largest supplier in the city.

Roughly 5,743,136,560.57 kilograms of CO2 emissions are emitted each year in Philadelphia because of electricity use. More telling of the city's emissions reality is the per capita CO2 emission amount. That amount stands at 3,580.96 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which results in them being the 1879th ranked city in Pennsylvania for CO2 emissions released per capita. Electricity plants in the city most often use Natural Gas, which accounts for 97.57% (or 969,737.74 megawatt hours) of the fuel sources used for electricity generation in the city. Other Biomass Gas and Distillate Fuel Oil are also highly used fuel types in the city, with 22,961.26 (2.31%) and 1,231 (0.12%) megawatt hours generated from each, respectively. Philadelphia has 7 electricity producing plants, which is the most out of any city in the state.