Rocky mountain power ogden utah6/1/2023 Utah lawmakers passed legislation in 2019 creating the framework for CREP and Ogden plus 17 other cities and counties, including Salt Lake City, Park City, Summit County and Moab, have been in talks about teaming up to formally take part. According to the Weber State survey, Gnagey said, the median increase respondents said they are willing to pay for electricity to take part in a program like CREP is 9.3%. Using the 7% figure Eller-Smith provided, the median bill would go up to $85.60. Going by the $5 to $10 a month estimate, the median average bill, then, would go to $85-$90 a month if the city ultimately joins the CREP initiative, still not a done deal. That means half of the residential power bills are more than $80 and half are less than that. Jenny Gnagey, a community research fellow with Weber State who helped conduct a survey of Ogden residents and power customers on the question of taking part in CREP, said the median residential power bill in Ogden is around $80. “That’s my best guess with the information I have at this time,” he told the Ogden City Council during a work session last week focused on the CREP proposal. Justin Owen, the energy manager for Weber State, which has provided expertise to Ogden as officials have debated CREP, estimates the increase for the average residential power customer would be $5 to $10 a month. While providing estimated impacts to residential customers, potential rate hikes for commercial users haven’t publicly emerged. Now, as leaders from Ogden and the other interested communities prepare a final proposal to get the program off the ground, some of those details, while still preliminary, are trickling out. How much more users are willing to pay for costlier green energy gets at the heart of the debate over efforts to shift away from reliance on carbon-producing fossil fuels, the aim of CREP. The cost of taking part in CREP, teaming with power producer Rocky Mountain Power, has been a key question for Ogden leaders and others as debate over participating has progressed.
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