Harris County, Texas Electric Profile

Interactive Map

Residents of Houston are charged an average residential electricity price of 11.07 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 9.22% less than Texas' average price of 12.20 cents and 20.87% less than the national average of 13.99 cents. The largest vendor in the city based on megawatt hours sold is Reliant Energy. With annual generation of 5,786,961 megawatt hours, the city is the 4th largest producer of electricity in the state.

Houston has the highest power producing plants of any city in Texas, with 4 total power plants. Emissions in the city average 5,641.66 kilograms of CO2 emissions per resident due to electricity use, making them the 1850th 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 13,001,652,920.56 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which ranks as the largest amount in Texas. Houston has around 92.59% of its electricity produced by Natural Gas. Other Gas and Waste Heat make up the next highest amounts at 6.49% (375,781.79 megawatt hours) and 0.91% (52,894 megawatt hours), respectively.

Interactive Map

Residents of Pasadena are charged an average residential electricity price of 11.07 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 9.23% less than Texas' average price of 12.20 cents and 20.88% less than the national average of 13.99 cents. The largest vendor in the city based on megawatt hours sold is Reliant Energy. Customers in the city have an average monthly residential electricity bill of $118.64. This is 4.21% lower than the nationwide average bill of $123.86.

Coming in as the 20th worst ranked city out of 1870 cities in the state, Pasadena emits 881,370,047.47 kilograms of CO2 emissions from electricity use per year. This total results in 5,800.4 kilograms of CO2 emissions per capita, so the city ranks 1267th worst in Texas for pollution per capita from electricity use. In Pasadena, there are no electricity producing facilities. The inhabitants must rely on power imported from outside of the city.