Winkler County, Texas Electricity Rates & Statistics

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Kermit has an average residential electricity rate of 13.82 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 3.86% less than the average state rate of 14.37 cents, a welcome situation for residents of the city. Selling an estimated 746 megawatt hours, TXU Energy is the largest vendor in the city. The power grid in the city experiences an average of 0.89 outages per customer a year, with outages lasting around 75.88 minutes each. The national averages for these two data points are 1.27 outages per year and 137.24 minutes each outage.

Emissions in Kermit average 5,638.83 kilograms of CO2 emissions per resident from electricity use, making them the 507th worst 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 emissions of Kermit from electricity use is 34,272,792.41 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which ranks as the 353rd highest amount in Texas. The city has no electricity production plants within its borders, meaning the companies that service the city must import all of the 98,765.92 megawatt hours that citizens here consume annually.