Tulare County, California Electricity Rates & Statistics

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Visalia's inhabitants are billed an average residential electricity rate of 29.90 cents per kilowatt hour. Unfortunately, this is 0.22% more than the state's average price of 29.83 cents, ranking the city at 646th out of 1617 cities in the state for best average electricity price. Electricity generation plants in the city have allowed a 3.15% decline in the use of renewable fuel types versus non-renewable fuels. Southern California Edison is the largest supplier in the city based on megawatt hours sold.

When it comes to electricity generation, Visalia's main fuel is Natural Gas, making up 21,196.42 megawatt hours, or 91.63% of generation in the city. Tracking emissions on a per capita basis shows us the emissions efficiency of a city. The city averages 1,275.1 kilograms of CO2 emissions per person from electricity use, which ranks them 69th worst in California out of 1617 cities for emissions efficiency. At 1,275.1 kilograms per person and 143,965 residents in the city, the city emits 183,570,248.98 kilograms of CO2 emissions each year. Visalia has 2 electricity plants, which is the 87th most out of any city in the state.

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Tulare's inhabitants are billed an average residential electricity rate of 29.90 cents per kilowatt hour. Unfortunately, this is 0.22% more than the state's average price of 29.83 cents, ranking the city at 646th out of 1617 cities in the state for best average electricity price. Electricity generation plants in the city have allowed a 16.51% decline in the use of renewable fuel types versus non-renewable fuels. Southern California Edison is the largest supplier in the city based on megawatt hours sold.

Tulare's main fuel consumed for electricity generation is Natural Gas. They produce 35,972.42 megawatt hours from this fuel source. Other Biomass Gas and Solar are also highly used fuel sources in the city, with 26.98% and 5.64% of total electricity production being generated from each, respectively. The city citizens average 1,400.55 kilograms of CO2 emissions per capita from electricity use, which ranks them 54th highest in California out of 1617 in this category. Total emissions in the city are 99,004,784.71 kilograms, which is the 111th highest total amount of emissions for all cities in California. Tulare is home to 3 electricity generation plants, which is the 51st most power plants within a city in California.