SPOKANE, Wash. — Avista filed a request to raise natural gas rates for Idaho customers on Friday.
The Purchased Gas Cost Adjustment request with the Idaho Public Utilities commission. If approved, the company said it will increase overall natural gas revenues by $3.3 million or 5.6 percent effective Nov. 1, 2019.
If the request is approved, Avista residential customers using an average of 64 therms per month would see their monthly bill to increase from $47.62 to $49.88, beginning Nov. 1, 2019, an increase of $2.26 or 4.8 percent.
According to a press release from Avista, the PGA is filed each year to balance the actual cost of wholesale natural gas purchases by Avista to serve customers with the amount included in rates. This included the natural gas commodity cost as well as the cost to transport natural gas on interstate pipelines to Avista’s local distribution system.
An Avista spokesperson said the rate adjustment was impacted, in part, by a Canadian pipeline disruption that restricted natural gas flows into the Pacific Northwest.
