Pacific Power's California customers get $404 climate credit on October bills - KDRV
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PORTLAND, Ore. & NORTHERN CALIFORNIA -- Electricity utility provider Pacific Power says the California Climate Credit is depositing into California Pacific Power customers' utility bills this month.
Pacific Power says its California customers' utility bills will include a credit called the California Climate Credit in October. It says a $404.27 credit will apply to the utility bill of each California Pacific Power residential and small business customer this month, part of a variable climate credit paid twice a year at a flat rate as part of the California's effort to fight climate change.
The utility says the credit "is a provision of the California Cap-and-Trade Program, which requires power plants, fuel providers and extensive industrial facilities that emit greenhouse gases to buy carbon pollution allowances. The credit on Pacific Power bills is designed to help utility customers during the transition to a low-carbon future. Proceeds raised by the Cap-and-Trade Program generate the Climate Credit and fund additional programs that cut pollution, create jobs and invest in cleaner energy and transportation." More information about programs funded by California's Cap-and-Trade Program to reduce carbon pollution, improve public health and the environment and provide meaningful benefits to the most disadvantaged communities is at: www.caclimateinvestments.ca.gov/.
Pacific Power says its customers can call 888-221-7070 for their bill information and learn more about the California Climate Credit at the California Public Utilities Commission’s website.
Pacific Power provides electric service to more than 800,000 customers in 243 Oregon, Washington, and California communities as part of PacifiCorp, serving nearly two million customers in six western states as the largest regulated utility owner of wind power in the West: www.pacificpower.net.
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