Avista’s Idaho customers could save about $6 a month on their heating bills this winter.
The Spokane-based utility has asked the Idaho Public Utilities Commission for decreases in electric and natural gas rates, based on higher-than-expected company revenues in 2017. A colder than normal winter led to increased sales of electricity and natural gas.
If approved by the commission, a typical household would see their electric bills fall by more than $4, effective October 1st. Typical natural gas customers would save a couple bucks a month as of November 1st.
The proposed rate changes would lead to a $7.4 million drop in electric revenues for Avista, and $2.7 million in natural gas revenues. Utility rates are adjusted each fall, based on previous sales.
Avista says the rate decrease is not related to the utility’s proposed sale to Canadian company Hydro One. (Spokesman-Review)
