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Enroll in our budget billing program and simplify managing your energy costs听听
Our Even Monthly Payment (EMP) plan makes it easier to manage your budget. We鈥檒l average your electric bills from the past 12 months to project your monthly payments for the next year. Whether it鈥檚 the biting cold of January or the searing heat of August, you鈥檒l pay the same amount each month.
We鈥檒l review your account twice a year and adjust your EMP amount if your electric use changes significantly. We鈥檒l also pay interest on your average daily credit balance. And if EMP doesn鈥檛 work for you, you can return to conventional billing at any time.
Enroll in Even Monthly Payment by mail
Enroll in Even Monthly Payment online
Combine EMP with other options
Once your bill is on our EMP plan, you may want to further simplify bill payment by enrolling in autopay through one of these payment programs:
- Electronic bill pay is our free electronic payment program that lets you choose from a variety of payment methods. Schedule payments each month for a day that works best for you or set up autopay to never miss a payment. To enroll in electronic bill pay, click the log in button above and Register.
- Ready Check pays your bill automatically each month from your bank account. No online registration required.
Frequently asked questions
- EMP helps manage budgets by smoothing out the highs and lows of your monthly electric service bill.
- Yes. We鈥檒l notify you by letter if we adjust your budgeted amount midway through the EMP plan year.
- At the start of a new EMP plan year, we鈥檒l list changes to your budgeted amount as a line item on your billing statements.听
- If you have a credit or debit balance at the end of your EMP plan year, we鈥檒l roll that balance into your next annual EMP plan听and consider this when calculating your new budget amount.
- If you have a credit balance, we鈥檒l apply it to your account to reduce any balance owed.
- If you have a debit balance (resulting from greater energy use than your budgeted EMP amount), we鈥檒l apply it to your account, and it will be due on your next billing statement.
- We appreciate your prompt payment. Minnesota rules require that we offer EMP to all customers regardless of their payment history. We may place customers with an outstanding balance on a budget payment plan that includes repayment of the outstanding balance.
- If you have two past due payments within 70 days or we issue a disconnect service order for your account, we may remove you from EMP.
- No. We calculate EMP based on your electric energy use over the past 12 months. Your monthly EMP amount isn鈥檛 adjusted to reflect energy assistance payments received.