Pacific Northern Gas which delivers gas services to much of Northern British Columbia including the Northwest, has outlined its plans for a proposed consolidation of how they assess the cost of Gas to residential, commercial and industrial customers.
Through a social media campaign over the last few days PNG has outlined what has led to their consolidation plans.
In response to customer feedback and direction from our regulator, the British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC), PNG has evaluated new pricing methods for allocating gas costs to our customers.
As a result of that process, PNG now proposes to consolidate gas costs across our five service areas: PNG West, Granisle, Dawson Creek, Fort St. John and Tumbler Ridge.
Today, customers in each service area pay a different price for gas. Under our proposal, customers will pay the same price.
We believe this proposed gas cost consolidation will provide customers with the right balance of pricing simplicity, fairness and efficiency. Other utilities in British Columbia also have consolidated commodity charges.
As PNG explains it, the Proposed consolidation would make for a 1% change, or about 10 to 20 dollars per year.
Moving to consolidated gas costs will result in modest bill reductions for most residential and small commercial customers. For example, a residential customer in PNG West, Dawson Creek and Fort St. John will see an average annual bill reduction of approximately 1%.
This equates to bill savings of about $10 to $20 per year, depending on the size of the home.
Customers in Granisle and Tumbler Ridge will see larger bill reductions because they currently pay much higher prices for gas.
A limited number of large commercial and small industrial customers in all service areas will see a modest bill increase of approximately 1% to 3%.
To participate in the Virtual community information session you will have to sign up here, the virtual sessions take place from November 9 and 10.
More notes on the proposal from PNG can be explored here.
A wider overview of past PNG themes can be reviewed from our archive page.
Cross posted from the North Coast Review.
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