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FortisBC is hoping its natural gas customers will pay more to help the environment.
The utility company has introduced a new program that will allow you to introduce renewable natural gas into the system.
Promotional material included with the latest Fortis bill tells consumers for as little as $3 more a month for an average home, customers can designate up to five per cent of the natural gas they use as "renewable."
"When you sign up for five per cent of renewable natural gas, that portion of your use is injected into our pipeline system. You are essentially subscribing to that, but you are not necessarily receiving the exact molecules of gas," says FortisBC spokesman Michael Allison.
"It's in the system and being used instead of the traditional natural gas."
Renewable gas is that which is collected from landfills, such as Kelowna's
Allison says Fortis takes the renewable blend and upgrades it to pipeline quality, so it is identical to traditional natural gas.
He claims there are a number of benefits to the program, not the least of which is the fact the renewable product is carbon neutral.
"The benefit to customers is they don't pay any carbon tax on their portion. If they were to subscribe to 100 per cent of renewable natural gas, they wouldn't pay any carbon tax on their bill. If you subscribe to 10 per cent, then you would pay 10 per cent less carbon tax."
Currently, there are three producers of renewable natural gas in the province, including the Kelowna and Salmon Arm landfills. The third is in the Fraser Valley.
Allison says those communities also realize a monetary benefit by selling the biogas to FortisBC. Kelowna is expected to receive between $3.1 million and $4.8 million over the next 15 years from the sale of the gas.
The Kelowna landfill is scheduled to produce about 60,000 gigajouls of renewable natural gas in the first year. That would be able to power about 600 homes for a full year.
That's expected to double over the duration of the program.
The Salmon Arm facility could produce enough biogas to power about 300 homes a year.
Click here for more information on renewable natural gas.
