Dane County, Wisconsin Electricity Rates & Statistics

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Madison averages a residential electricity rate of 16.58 cents per kilowatt hour paid by their citizens, which is 9.77% higher than Wisconsin's average rate of 15.11 cents and 14.68% higher than the US average of 14.46 cents. The power grid in the city is faced with an average of 0.72 outages per consumer per year, with outages lasting about 81.55 minutes per outage. The US averages of outages and outage time frames are 1.21 outages a year and 122.99 minutes per outage. The average monthly residential power bill for a customer in the city is $96.01 per month.

Emitting 1,701,723,171.34 kilograms of CO2 emissions a year, Madison ranks 2nd highest out of 808 cities in Wisconsin for total pollution from electricity consumption. Perhaps a better measurement of pollution is the CO2 emissions per citizen in the city, which is 6,306.42 kilograms of CO2 emissions per person per year. This measurement ranks Madison as the 763rd highest polluting city in the state. The city has 7 power plants, which is the highest out of any city in the state. Madison's top fuel used for electricity production is Natural Gas. They produce 347,456 megawatt hours, or 94.25% of the total generation in the city, from this fuel source. Wind and Distillate Fuel Oil are also highly used fuel sources in the city, with 20,717 (5.62%) and 471.6 (0.13%) megawatt hours generated from each, respectively.

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Sun Prairie averages a residential electricity rate of 12.65 cents per kilowatt hour paid by their citizens, which is 16.30% lower than Wisconsin's average rate of 15.11 cents and 12.55% lower than the US average of 14.46 cents. Consumers in Sun Prairie are faced with 0.72 electrical outages per year with outages lasting on average 81.55 minutes. Consumers in the city pay an average monthly residential power bill of $87.01. This is 16.75% lower than the Wisconsin average bill of $104.51.

Electricity consumption in Sun Prairie creates 230,622,716.11 kilograms of CO2 emissions. This is the 26th largest emissions amount of any city in Wisconsin. This total also equates to a ranking of 68th highest in Wisconsin for emissions per resident with an average of 6,412.06 kilograms of emissions per citizen. All of the electricity sold in Sun Prairie has to be sourced from surrounding cities and rural areas, as there are no power generation plants within its borders.