With October being National Energy Awareness Month and the average household spending nearly $2,000 a year on energy bills, the personal-finance website WalletHub conducted an in-depth analysis of 2016’s Most & Least Energy Efficient States.
To bring awareness to the impact of energy on Americans’ wallets and encourage consumers to conserve more, WalletHub’s analysts compared the efficiency of car- and home-energy consumption in 48 U.S. states. Due to data limitations, Alaska and Hawaii were excluded from our analysis.
| Most Energy-Efficient States | Least Energy-Efficient States | ||||
| 1 | New York | 39 | West Virginia | ||
| 2 | Utah | 40 | Kentucky | ||
| 3 | Minnesota | 41 | Georgia | ||
| 4 | Vermont | 42 | Oklahoma | ||
| 5 | Rhode Island | 43 | Tennessee | ||
| 6 | Wisconsin | 44 | Mississippi | ||
| 7 | Massachusetts | 45 | Arkansas | ||
| 8 | Colorado | 46 | Alabama | ||
| 9 | Connecticut | 47 | Louisiana | ||
| 10 | New Hampshire | 48 | South Carolina | ||
Richie Bernardo For a WalletHub News Release posted on SouthFloridaReporter.com Oct. 19, 2016
