Harris County, Texas Electricity Rates & Statistics

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Residents of Houston are charged an average residential electricity price of 13.20 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 7.84% less than Texas' average price of 14.32 cents and 17.54% less than the national average of 16.01 cents. The city experiences an average of 1.01 electrical outages per consumer each year. These outages last an average of 103.4 minutes. In comparison, the national average is 1.27 outages per consumer and 137.24 minutes an outage. The city has encouraged a 6.01% decrease in non-renewable fuel type use in their power plants.

Houston has the highest power producing plants of any city in Texas, with 32 total power plants. Emissions in the city average 5,700.07 kilograms of CO2 emissions per resident due to electricity use, making them the 1757th highest polluting city out of 1871 cities in Texas based on emissions per capita. While not as telling of a statistic (more people almost always equals more pollution), the total pollution for the city from electricity consumption is 13,135,312,788.98 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which ranks as the largest amount in Texas. Houston has around 89.15% of its electricity produced by Natural Gas. Other Gas and Waste Heat make up the next highest amounts at 8.61% (559,632.08 megawatt hours) and 2.21% (143,785 megawatt hours), respectively.

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Residents of Pasadena are charged an average residential electricity price of 13.21 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 7.77% less than Texas' average price of 14.32 cents and 17.48% less than the national average of 16.01 cents. CO2 emissions per person went up by 4.26% in the city during the preceding 12 months. Pasadena citizens consume 517202.19% of the electricity generated within the city limits and the city must use electricity produced in rural areas or other nearby municipalities to make up the difference.

Coming in as the 22nd worst ranked city out of 1871 cities in the state, Pasadena emits 849,676,410.65 kilograms of CO2 emissions from electricity use per year. This total results in 5,754.08 kilograms of CO2 emissions per capita, so the city ranks 73rd worst in Texas for pollution per capita from electricity use. There are 2 power plants in the city, which is the 28th most plants in a city in Texas. For electricity production purposes, Pasadena's top fuel type is Natural Gas, accounting for 100.00% of production in the city.