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Your Path to Net Zero
Utah and Idaho customers will have a new way to significantly reduce their carbon footprint. CarbonRightSM is a voluntary program that offsets carbon emissions from natural gas use in a customer’s home or business. The program works by supporting projects in Utah, and other parts of the country, that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
CarbonRight is available to residential customers, businesses, government buildings and schools. To participate, you may purchase carbon offsets in $5 blocks on your monthly bill. A typical residential customer can offset their entire natural gas carbon footprint by purchasing one $5 block a month, achieving net zero carbon emissions from natural gas usage. Please see the full table below to see how you can offset the carbon emissions associated with your natural gas use.
To achieve net zero carbon emissions associated with your natural gas usage, you are encouraged to log in to your customer account to view your average usage.
Typical Customer Type |
Typical Annual Usage Dths |
Est. Blocks to Achieve Carbon Neutrality |
Est. Monthly Cost | Est. Annual Cost |
Average Residential | 80 | 1 | $5 | $60 |
Large Residential | 81-160 | 2 | $10 | $120 |
*A typical residential customer can offset their entire natural gas carbon emissions by purchasing one (1) block of carbon offsets. Residential homes using more than 80 dekatherms (Dth) of natural gas per month may choose to purchase two (2) blocks. To achieve net zero carbon emissions associated with your natural gas usage, you are encouraged to log in to your customer account to view your average usage.
Typical Customer Type |
Typical |
Est. Blocks to Achieve Carbon Neutrality |
Est. Monthly Cost | Est. Annual Cost |
Average Residential | 80 | 1 | $5 | $60 |
Large Residential | 81-160 | 2 | $10 | $120 |
Small Retailer | 161-240 | 3 | $15 | $180 |
Larger Retailer | 241-800 | 4 to 12 | $20 - $60 | $240 - $720 |
Restaurant | 801-1200 | 13 to 15 | $65 - $75 | $780 - $900 |
Industrial | 1201-1600 | 16 to 20 | $80 - $100 | $960 - $1,200 |
A typical residential customer can offset their entire natural gas carbon footprint by purchasing one $5 block a month, achieving net zero carbon emissions from natural gas usage.
To achieve net zero carbon emissions associated with your natural gas usage, you are encouraged to log in to your customer account to view your average usage.
Project type: Landfill gas capture/combustion
Name: Trans-Jordan Landfill
Location: South Jordan, Utah
Registry: Climate Action Reserve, Project ID: CAR400
CarbonRight portfolio total: 75%
When landfill waste decomposes, it produces greenhouse gas emissions. This project captures those emissions before they enter the atmosphere by installing a network throughout the landfill that gathers methane as it is emitted. After the methane is extracted, it is cleaned and used to generate electricity.
Project type: Landfill gas capture/combustion
Name: Maple Hill Landfill
Location: Macon, Missouri
Registry: Climate Action Reserve, Project ID: CAR521
CarbonRight portfolio total: 15%
When landfill waste decomposes, it produces greenhouse gas emissions. This project captures those emissions before they enter the atmosphere by installing a network throughout the landfill that gathers methane as it is emitted. This methane is then flared (burned). The emissions from burning the methane are much less potent than if the methane was allowed to escape into the atmosphere.
Project type: Forest carbon
Name: UPM Blandin Native American Hardwoods Conservation & Carbon Sequestration Project
Location: Grand Rapids, Minnesota
Registry: American Carbon Registry, Project ID: ACR212
CarbonRight portfolio total: 10%
This project manages a 75-mile radius of mixed native hardwood forest, which is managed with sustainable practices and will always remain forest through a conservation easement. This preservation allows for improved carbon dioxide sequestration as the trees remove carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, from the air. In addition, preservation of the forest protects water quality and wildlife.
Note: The projects supported by CarbonRight may change over time depending on the availability of carbon offsets.
CarbonRight is a carbon offset program that allows customers to voluntarily offset carbon emissions from natural gas use in their home or business by supporting projects reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
GreenTherm is a renewable energy program that provides customers an opportunity to support the production of renewable natural gas (RNG). Renewable natural gas is pipeline-quality gas produced from existing waste streams and a variety of renewable and sustainable biomass sources, capturing and using methane that would otherwise be emitted into the atmosphere.
ThermWise is an energy conservation program that promotes the use of energy efficient practices and rebates to reduce natural gas usage. The program offers Home Energy Plans in which a home energy expert visits your home to conduct a thorough home energy efficiency analysis. ThermWise offers rebates for energy-efficient appliances and weatherization improvements that are are available for existing homes, businesses and builders.
When a qualified carbon mitigation project is completed and reduces emissions from a source, the project developer can sell carbon offsets to a third party through a transparent and independently certified process. These carbon offsets must be independently measured and validated through rigorous standards put in place by carbon offset registries in order to ensure the emission reductions are real, accurate, permanent, and additional to what would be expected from normal day-to-day practices.
We purchase the offsets for this program through a competitive bidding process to make sure they meet the highest standards and provide the best value for our customers.
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