Pay your power bills at Northern

Nunavummiut may now pay their Nunavut Power Corp. bills at their local Northern or Northmart stores, under a new arrangement between the power corporation and the Northwest Company.

This means that power customers may now pay their bills at the office counter inside their local Northern stores. The NPC already has a similar arrangement with co-ops.

Beginning this month, Nunavummiut will also find that their power bills will appear in Inuktitut and English. On the back, they’ll find instructions in Inuinnaqtun, French, Inuktitut and English.

And on April 1 this month, the power corporation’s new system took effect. Public housing tenants will see no changes in the amount they have to pay. Homeowners will see a rate increase of about 15 per cent, partially offset by a subsidy. Commercial customers will see an increase of about 16.5 per cent.