Harris County, Texas Electricity Rates & Statistics

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Residents of Houston are charged an average residential electricity price of 10.40 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 18.18% less than Texas' average price of 12.71 cents and 28.10% less than the national average of 14.46 cents. The largest vendor in the city based on megawatt hours sold is TXU Energy. With annual generation of 6,667,281.78 megawatt hours, the city is the 3rd largest producer of electricity in the state.

Houston has the highest power producing plants of any city in Texas, with 25 total power plants. Emissions in the city average 5,576.61 kilograms of CO2 emissions per resident due to electricity use, making them the 1839th highest polluting city out of 1870 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 12,851,741,328.63 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which ranks as the largest amount in Texas. Houston has around 90.42% of its electricity produced by Natural Gas. Other Gas and Waste Heat make up the next highest amounts at 8.31% (554,317.54 megawatt hours) and 1.26% (84,229 megawatt hours), respectively.

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Residents of Pasadena are charged an average residential electricity price of 10.40 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 18.14% less than Texas' average price of 12.71 cents and 28.07% less than the national average of 14.46 cents. Customers in Pasadena experience 0.86 power outages per year with outages lasting an average of 78.4 minutes. Pasadena citizens consume 467422.31% 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 20th worst ranked city out of 1870 cities in the state, Pasadena emits 859,552,235.36 kilograms of CO2 emissions from electricity use per year. This total results in 5,656.81 kilograms of CO2 emissions per capita, so the city ranks 44th worst in Texas for pollution per capita from electricity use. There are 2 power plants in the city, which is the 11th 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.