Lamar County, Texas Electricity Rates & Statistics

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Paris' inhabitants are billed an average residential electricity rate of 15.81 cents per kilowatt hour. Unfortunately, this is 5.28% more than the state's average price of 15.01 cents, ranking the city at 1040th out of 1870 cities in the state for best average electricity price. There has been a 300.25% rise in the usage of sustainable fuel sources (such as solar, wind or hydro power) in Paris in the previous 12 months. It's great to see these fuel types slowly replace nonrenewable fuels such as coal and natural gas. The city generates 558,055 megawatt hours, which is 7.44% of their total production, from sustainable fuel sources

When it comes to electricity generation, Paris' main fuel is Natural Gas, making up 6,938,569 megawatt hours, or 92.56% of generation in the city. Tracking emissions on a per capita basis shows us the emissions efficiency of a city. The city averages 5,967.98 kilograms of CO2 emissions per person from electricity use, which ranks them 26th worst in Texas out of 1870 cities for emissions efficiency. At 5,967.98 kilograms per person and 24,447 residents in the city, the city emits 145,899,299.93 kilograms of CO2 emissions each year. Paris has 3 electricity plants, which is the 18th most out of any city in the state.

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Reno (Lamar County)'s inhabitants are billed an average residential electricity rate of 15.03 cents per kilowatt hour. Unfortunately, this is 0.12% more than the state's average price of 15.01 cents, ranking the city at 877th out of 1870 cities in the state for best average electricity price. The largest supplier in the city based on megawatt hours sold is TXU Energy. The city has an average of 0.8 electrical outages per consumer per year. These outages go on for an average of 85.01 minutes. In comparison, the national average is 1.44 outages per consumer and 123.49 minutes an outage.

Reno (Lamar County) has no power generation plants. The city is the 511th worst ranked city in the state out of 1870 when it comes to total emissions from electricity use, with the city emitting 19,394,831.59 kilograms of CO2 emissions a year. More telling of the city's pollution reality is the per capita CO2 emission amount. That amount stands at 5,662.72 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which results in them being the 921st highest polluting city in Texas when calculating by CO2 pollution per capita.