If you heat your home with electricity, starting November 1 SaskPower is again giving you relief from the federal carbaon tax.
"We're no longer going to be charging for the carbon tax on electric heating," said SaskPower spokesperson Joel Cheery. "The way that we do that is that we reduce customer bills and the carbon tax rate rider specifically by 60% through the winter months."
They picked that numbers because they can't specifically target track heat costs.
"Our meters can tell the overall power usage of our home," Chery said. "But we can't necessarily see how much of that is going to heating. We have estimated that for a customer who relies on electricity for heat, often this is in places like more remote northern communities that don't have access to natural gas, or remote farms and that sort of thing. Those customers tend to spend about 60% of their power bill on heating during the winter months. So we can effectively remove the carbon tax from that portion of the bill by reducing the carbon tax rate."
The rebate is a directive from the provincial government.
SaskPower has estimated that up to 35,000 customers rely on electric heat.
The program provided $1.3 million in relief in 2023.