Results of URC Utah Renewable Communities city council vote: (whether CWH residents can choose NetZero carbon emissions by 2030 for their Rocky Mountain Power electricity usage):

3 Council Members - No

CM Birrell and Mayor - Yes

What the “NO" vote to leave URC means for you:

When the other cities and counties in Utah who voted to remain in URC will have $4 added to each household electricity bill each month (unless given resident “opts out” — which can be done at any time), they’ll have created clean energy sources that produce net zero emissions for their electrical use!

CWH residents will continue to receive electricity sourced 57% from burning coal and oil.

By 2030, Rocky Mountain Power estimates fee will be $.32 per month for URC customers. Cottonwood Hts residents will pay $14.00 per month (for average electricity usage) to off-set carbon usage.

With solar and wind trending cheaper year over year, we will likely miss out on the URC savings.

There is no mechanism currently in place to get back into URC. If made available to us, will that be at great expense in the future? (CWH has already put considerable resources into URC since 2019. The council majority vote has brought URC to an end for CWH residents.)