Understanding your bill

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D1: General service
D3 – D4: Stable service
D5: Interruptible service

Natural gas supplied at the service address. The supply price is modified monthly. We bill you the same as what we pay the producers.

Learn more on gas supply (PDF)

Renewable natural gas (RNG) supplied at the service address. This is the purchase percentage of the total consumption as RNG. The supply rate for RNG is set annually as part of the Rate Case filed each year with the Régie de l'énergie. Note that there is no charge related to the Cap and Trade Emission Allowances Service for RNG.

This is a charge to spread the costs associated with unsold renewable natural gas (RNG) volumes among the voluntary customers. Customers whose RNG purchases are equal to or greater than the regulatory target are not subject to the RNG socialization fee.

Socialization fee is reviewed each year on the basis of unsold RNG volumes in relation to the RNG volumes required in the annual injection targets and filed annually in the rate case with the Régie de l'énergie.

This is the service that sends the natural gas through pipelines from the production sites to Quebec , the territory served by Énergir. The transportation prices are modified when Énergir transportation suppliers modify their own prices. We bill this service at the same price as what we pay the transportation companies.

Find out more: Transportation Service (PDF)

Load balancing is the management of natural gas storage and variations between summer and winter consumption. The price of this component is adjusted annually, in early October. Énergir bills load balancing at the same price we pay our suppliers for load-balancing tools.

Find out more: Load-balancing Service (PDF)

The emission allowance cost for the natural gas combustion, which varies each month. Cap-and-Trade System is an economic tool of the Québec government aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Fuels consumed in Québec are covered by the Cap-and-Trade System through energy distributors like Énergir. The sums collected will be invested by the government in, among other things, measures aimed at combating climate change.

The price of the natural gas delivery service throughout the Énergir distribution network is adjusted annually. The rate is assigned based on your consumption and applicable to the general, stable or interruptible services. Énergir derives its earnings solely from this component of your bill.

The price of the general distribution service is the sum of two components:

1. Basic fees: the fixed portion of the bill. They are determined by a rate that varies according to annual consumption and are billed by the meter based on the number of days in the billing period.
2. Unit price by volume withdrawn: a variable component of the bill. It is applied to the volume withdrawn during the billing period. The unit price decreases as the volume increases.

Find out more: General Distribution Service D1 (PDF)