Piedmont residents getting break on utility bills

There is some good news today for residents in the city of Piedmont. The city council   Mayor Bill Baker told City Council members Tuesday that the reduction was applied to utility bills that went out Feb. 1. He said the city might also decide to extend the temporary rate cut to customers next month.  The city supplies both electricity and gas to customers. It pays suppliers for the commodities and resells them to people who live in the city.  Piedmont gave its residential power customers a 10 percent discount this month and it gave its residential gas customers a 12 to 17 percent discount. Commercial customers will be getting a smaller discount. City officials said that Even with the discount, residents’ bills are higher than usual because they have used more energy to heat their homes during recent cold weather.

voted Tuesday to charge utility customers less money for gas and electricity this month to give them a break in the cost of heating their homes and businesses.