Harris County, Texas Electricity Rates & Statistics

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Residents of Houston are charged an average residential electricity price of 13.87 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 3.48% less than Texas' average price of 14.37 cents and 13.94% less than the national average of 16.12 cents. The city experiences an average of 1.01 electrical outages per consumer each year. These outages last an average of 103.4 minutes. In comparison, the national average is 1.27 outages per consumer and 137.24 minutes an outage. The city has permitted a 6.20% rise in non-renewable fuel type use in their power plants.

Houston has the highest power producing plants of any city in Texas, with 4 total power plants. Emissions in the city average 5,555.32 kilograms of CO2 emissions per resident due to electricity use, making them the 1768th highest polluting city out of 1871 cities in Texas based on emissions per capita. While not as telling of a statistic (more people almost always equals more pollution), the total pollution for the city from electricity consumption is 12,801,751,678.27 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which ranks as the largest amount in Texas. Houston has around 89.84% of its electricity produced by Natural Gas. Other Gas and Waste Heat make up the next highest amounts at 8.88% (542,130.08 megawatt hours) and 1.29% (78,627 megawatt hours), respectively.

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Residents of Pasadena are charged an average residential electricity price of 13.89 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 3.41% less than Texas' average price of 14.37 cents and 13.88% less than the national average of 16.12 cents. Customers in the city are faced with 1.01 power outages per year, with outages lasting about 103.4 minutes on average. The national averages for outages and duration are 1.27 outages at 137.24 minutes each. TXU Energy is the largest electricity supplier in the city based on residential customer count.

Coming in as the 22nd worst ranked city out of 1871 cities in the state, Pasadena emits 832,657,435.27 kilograms of CO2 emissions from electricity use per year. This total results in 5,638.83 kilograms of CO2 emissions per capita, so the city ranks 24th worst in Texas for pollution per capita from electricity use. In Pasadena, there are no electricity producing facilities. The inhabitants must rely on power imported from outside of the city.