COUNTY News:
The Los Alamos County Council held a public hearing for changes to the natural gas rate ordinance and adopted the changes proposed by the Department of Public Utilities (DPU) Tuesday night.
The changes will take effect April 8.
DPU’s natural gas rate includes a fixed portion that covers operating expenses and a variable pass-through component that covers DPU’s actual cost of the natural gas commodity. The changes adopted are all in response to recent volatility in the cost of gas. The fixed rate portion did not change.
“In December, DPU began to see unprecedented increases in the Read More