Reduce your environmental impact with Smart Energy.
Let's work together to address climate change. When you enroll in the Smart Energy program, you join over 84,000 NW Natural customers who are mitigating the carbon emissions from their natural gas use through projects that reduce, or prevent the release of, greenhouse gases.
Affordable. Residential customers choose either the Average Home option for $5.50 a month or the Climate Neutral option for about 10.5 cents more per therm used each month. Business customer enrollment options start at $10.00 a month.
Simple. The Smart Energy option you choose is included on your monthly bill.
Installation-free. Whether you are a renter, homeowner or business, there is no need to install any equipment.
To date[1]As of 12/31/2022, Smart Energy has purchased offsets from 19 projects across the Pacific Northwest, California, Utah, Alaska and British Columbia. These include projects like biodigesters on family-owned dairy farms that capture methane from cow manure, keeping this potent greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere and harnessing it as a renewable energy source. Every day on dairy farms, a typical cow produces 120 pounds of manure—that’s a lot of potential energy!
Washington
We designed Smart Energy to be:
Affordable. Residential customers choose either the Average Home option for $8.00 a month or the Climate Neutral option for about 15 cents more per therm used each month. Business customer enrollment options start at $10.00 a month.
Simple. The Smart Energy option you choose is included on your monthly bill.
Installation-free. Whether you are a renter, homeowner or business, there is no need to install any equipment.
For Washington customers enrolled in Smart Energy on, or after, July 1, 2022, their carbon footprint is mitigated through a mix of carbon offsets and renewable natural gas projects. To date, Smart Energy has funded emissions reductions from 19 projects across the Pacific Northwest, California, Utah, Alaska and British Columbia. Some of these projects use captured methane, a potent greenhouse gas, as a renewable energy source—now that’s smart!
business and residential customers participate in Smart Energy.*
423,665
equivalent reduction in number of gasoline-powered cars removed from the road for one year.
1,909,675
metric tons of emissions reductions funded over the life of the program.*
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* As of Dec. 31, 2022. ** Approximate figure based on the 2022 annual average residential emissions reductions funded and the number of enrolled residential customers per zip code, as of Dec. 31, 2022.
Smart Energy participants
Smart Energy-funded carbon offset projects
How Smart Energy works
Enroll at the level that is right for your home and/or business.
Smart Energy purchases carbon offsets and renewable thermal certificates from projects that reduce, or prevent the release of, greenhouse gases.
Each month, you are now balancing some or all of the carbon footprint associated with your natural gas use.
Join the Smart Energy program.
Reduce your environmental impact from natural gas and support projects that reduce, or prevent the release of, greenhouse gases.
