Lamar County, Texas Electricity Rates & Statistics

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Paris' inhabitants are billed an average residential electricity rate of 13.81 cents per kilowatt hour. Fortunately, this is 3.95% less than the state's average price of 14.37 cents, ranking the city at 917th out of 1871 cities in the state for best average electricity price. There has been a 100.00% increase in solar usage by electricity companies in the city over the last 12 months. Generation in Paris is 1540.45% of the electricity usage of consumers, which results in the exportation and storage of excess production.

When it comes to electricity generation, Paris' main fuel is Natural Gas, making up 5,889,011 megawatt hours, or 96.23% of generation in the city. Tracking emissions on a per capita basis shows us the emissions efficiency of a city. The city averages 5,868.27 kilograms of CO2 emissions per person from electricity use, which ranks them 15th worst in Texas out of 1871 cities for emissions efficiency. At 5,868.27 kilograms per person and 24,447 residents in the city, the city emits 143,461,636.28 kilograms of CO2 emissions each year. Paris has 2 electricity plants, which is the 6th most out of any city in the state.

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Reno (Lamar County)'s inhabitants are billed an average residential electricity rate of 13.77 cents per kilowatt hour. Fortunately, this is 4.20% less than the state's average price of 14.37 cents, ranking the city at 831st out of 1871 cities in the state for best average electricity price. The largest supplier in the city based on megawatt hours sold is TXU Energy. The city has an average of 1.3 electrical outages per consumer per year. These outages go on for an average of 116.97 minutes. In comparison, the national average is 1.27 outages per consumer and 137.24 minutes an outage.

Reno (Lamar County) has no power generation plants. The city is the 518th worst ranked city in the state out of 1871 when it comes to total emissions from electricity use, with the city emitting 19,312,983.55 kilograms of CO2 emissions a year. More telling of the city's pollution reality is the per capita CO2 emission amount. That amount stands at 5,638.83 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which results in them being the 507th highest polluting city in Texas when calculating by CO2 pollution per capita.