Dallas County, Texas Electricity Rates & Statistics

Interactive Map

On average, citizens living in Dallas are billed a residential electricity price of 16.34 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 9.14% more than the average state price of 14.97 cents and 1.39% below the nationwide average of 16.57 cents. Natural gas is one of the major fuel types used in the country, and Dallas is in on the action. They generate 1,469,851.78 megawatt hours using natural gas. This amount makes them as the 17th highest city out of 1870 cities in the state for natural gas production. Generation using renewable fuel types totals 0.02 megawatt hours produced per customer, which ranks the city 70th out of 1870 cities in Texas.

Dallas has roughly 95.87% of its electricity generated by Natural Gas. Other fuel sources used include Distillate Fuel Oil at 2.32% and Landfill Gas at 1.81% of production. Approximately 7,749,262,477.01 kilograms of CO2 emissions are released in the city due to electricity consumption. The city also ranks 23rd worst in Texas in emissions per resident, averaging 5,963.02 kilograms of CO2 emissions emissions per resident. This is, perhaps, the more important of the two rankings. There are 7 power producing plants in Dallas, which is the 5th most plants in a city in the state.

Interactive Map

On average, citizens living in Irving are billed a residential electricity price of 16.34 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 9.14% more than the average state price of 14.97 cents and 1.39% below the nationwide average of 16.57 cents. Non-renewable fuel types are regularly used in electricity production in the city, resulting in approximately 0 megawatt hours being generated from these fuel sources per resident each year. TXU Energy sells an estimated 55,984.65 megawatt hours in the city per year, which is more than any other electricity supplier.

Electricity use in Irving results in the release of 1,418,228,631.78 kilograms of CO2 emissions per year, which is the 12th highest amount in Texas out of 1870 cities. This total also results in a ranking of 84th highest in the state for emissions per capita. The top fuel source consumed in Irving is Distillate Fuel Oil. The city generates 100.00% of the total production in the city from this fuel source. Irving has the 34th highest electricity plants of any city in the state, with 2 total power plants.