With WA State making it increasingly difficult for natural gas providers, largely due to the Climate Commitment Act., many providers are looking at rate increases.
Cascade Natural Gas hearing coming January 2nd.
According to Cascade Natural Gas and the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (WUTC) January 2nd there will be a public hearing on the proposed rate hike.
The hearing can be attended virtually, it will be held at 6 PM on January 2nd, Thursday. Cascade says some of the rate will be used to replace aging pipes, but a lot of it is what are called “pass through” costs due to increasing costs of gas. Cascade says these are not profit-generating, but simply passed along.
The rate increase being proposed is 15.89 percent, for the average customer who uses around 54 therms a month, the increase will be about $9.78 per month. A therm is the equivalent of 100 cubic feet or 100,000 BTU’s of gas…