Get in on the savings
Pacific Gas and Electric Company is offering customers an
incentive to control their heating costs in the coming months
through the Winter Gas Savings Program. The program will give
qualifying residential and business customers a credit of up to 20
percent on their natural gas bill for reducing natural gas usage
during January and February by 10 percent or more.
Get in on the savings
Pacific Gas and Electric Company is offering customers an incentive to control their heating costs in the coming months through the Winter Gas Savings Program. The program will give qualifying residential and business customers a credit of up to 20 percent on their natural gas bill for reducing natural gas usage during January and February by 10 percent or more.
Last year, about 1.7 million customers reduced their gas usage and earned a bill credit through the program formerly known as PG&E’s 10/20 program.
“Our Northern and Central California energy customers are among the most energy- efficiency conscious in the United States,” said Helen Burt, PG&E’s senior vice president and chief customer officer. “The Winter Gas Savings Program recognizes their commitment to reduced energy consumption and rewards them for it.”
Customers who reduce their cumulative gas usage during the next two months, January and February, will receive a credit on their March or April gas bill. For every percent decrease in consumption, up to 10 percent, customers will receive an equal percent credit. Customers who reduce their gas usage by 10 percent or more will receive an automatic 20 percent credit. Every PG&E customer is eligible and automatically enrolled in the program.
In other news, PG&E cut its electricity rates by 0.6 percent at the start of the new year, meaning an average household will see its monthly bill drop from $73.40 to $73.32. The bill for larger homes will drop from $158.11 per month to $157.99 and the bill for a small business will drop about $1.16 per month.
The rate reduction was enabled by a downturn in natural gas prices, on which most California power plants run.
More information can be found at www.pge.com/wintergassavings.
