Rock County, Wisconsin Electricity Rates & Statistics

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Janesville has an average residential electricity rate of 16.45 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 5.16% lower than the state's average rate of 17.35 cents and 0.84% lower than the national average of 16.59 cents. More electricity is consumed within Janesville than is generated, with electricity usage adding up to 8577.82% of production. Customers in Janesville deal with 0.22 electrical outages each year with outages lasting on average 21.91 minutes.

Coming in as the 10th worst ranked city out of 810 cities in the state, Janesville emits 385,218,425.91 kilograms of CO2 emissions from electricity consumption. More telling of the city's emissions reality is the per person CO2 emission amount. That amount stands at 5,845.41 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which results in them being the 15th ranked city in the state for CO2 emissions released per capita. The city is home to one electricity producing plant. Janesville's main fuel type used for electricity production is Landfill Gas. The city generates 9,033 megawatt hours from this fuel source.

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Beloit has an average residential electricity rate of 16.68 cents per kilowatt hour. This is 3.83% less than Wisconsin's average rate of 17.35 cents, ranking the city at 412th out of 810 cities in the state for lowest average electricity rate. There is 249.00% more electricity consumed in Beloit than is generated, forcing the city to purchase electricity from neighboring cities and counties. The city's use of renewable energy sources for electricity generation totals 3.37 megawatt hours per capita. This ranks the city 31st out of 810 cities in Wisconsin.

For electricity generation purposes, Beloit's primary fuel is Solar, making up 123,075 megawatt hours, or 99.90% of production in the city. Natural Gas and Distillate Fuel Oil are the second and third most used fuel types, respectively, for electricity generation. Natural Gas is used to make 0.06% of electricity generation and Distillate Fuel Oil makes up 0.03% of total generation in the city. The city's electricity use results in CO2 pollution totaling 151,583,760.43 kilograms, which is 31st highest in Wisconsin out of 810 cities. More importantly, the city averages 4,145.37 kilograms of CO2 emissions per capita, which is a better measurement of the city's pollution levels. Beloit has 2 electricity producing plants, which is the 10th highest out of any city in Wisconsin.