Niagara County, New York Electricity Rates & Statistics

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The residential electricity rate is 16.64 cents per kilowatt hour for inhabitants of Niagara Falls, which is 26.68% below the average New York price of 22.69 cents. The city generates about 4.09 megawatt hours per resident each year from its power plants, which makes it the 15th highest generating city out of 1306 cities in the state. With an estimated 1,060 total residential customers, National Grid is the largest supplier in the city.

Roughly 146,433,850.36 kilograms of CO2 emissions are emitted each year in Niagara Falls because of electricity use. More telling of the city's emissions reality is the per capita CO2 emission amount. That amount stands at 3,002.97 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which results in them being the 11th ranked city in New York for CO2 emissions released per capita. Electricity plants in the city most often use Non-biogenic Municipal Solid Waste, which accounts for 52.02% (or 103,681.64 megawatt hours) of the fuel sources used for electricity generation in the city. Biogenic Municipal Solid Waste and Natural Gas are also highly used fuel types in the city, with 84,830.36 (42.56%) and 10,805 (5.42%) megawatt hours generated from each, respectively. Niagara Falls has one electricity producing plant.

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The residential electricity rate is 16.64 cents per kilowatt hour for inhabitants of North Tonawanda, which is 26.68% below the average New York price of 22.69 cents. National Grid sells an estimated 6,856.38 megawatt hours in the city per year, more than all other vendors. The New York average monthly residential electricity bill is $128.61, while the North Tonawanda average is 19.04% lower at $104.13 per month. This ranks the city 385th in the state for average monthly bill amount.

The use of electricity in North Tonawanda accounts for 50,770,207.72 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which is the 53rd largest amount in the state out of 1306 cities. This total equates to 1,659.59 kilograms of CO2 emissions per capita, so the city ranks 721st highest in New York for emissions per capita. The residents of North Tonawanda have to use power from outside city limits because there are not any electricity generating plants in the city boundaries.