Budget Payment Plan

The Clatskanie People's Utility District offers an average payment option that can help reduce high winter bills. This option, called the Budget Payment Plan, allows customers to make equal monthly payments throughout the year. We average your last 12 months of usage and set a fixed billing amount over a 12-month period. Instead of paying high bills through the winter months and low bills through the summer months, the bill is for the same amount year round. Except as noted below, this option is offered during the spring months and applied on your May bill. There is no additional charge for this service.

In order to qualify for this option, customers should:

Be a residential customer or a small commercial customer with no demand charges.
Have lived at their present address for at least nine months. (This gives the People's Utility District a history of consumption on which a payment amount can be based.)
Have a zero balance, no disconnections, and only two final notices in the previous 12 months.
Call in and sign up for the program.

Customers with 12 Months of Service

A Residential, Residential Fraternal, or Non-profit rate customer who has good credit with us can be put on the budget payment plan any time during the year. General Service rate customers with less than 30 KW and good credit with us can be put on the budget payment plan any time during the year. A residential customer who does not have a good credit rating can be placed on budget payment for a trial basis by credit and collection personnel.

Customers with Less Than 12 Months of Service

If a Residential, Residential Fraternal, or Non-profit rate customer requests they be put on a budget payment plan before they have been with the PUD for 12 months, then the estimated usage will be based on the previous tenants usage, but not less then $75.00 per month. However, the customer must have a good credit reference from a previous utility (electric, gas, or telephone) for the last 12 months, or reference from a reliable source such as a CPI Credit report. Credit references will be accepted over the phone.