Customers in crisis tap B.C. Hydro fund for $295,000 in first months

Some 3,000 cash-strapped B.C. Hydro customers have applied to the utility for help from a fund created in May to bail people out of a crisis situations, the corporation says.
Hydro has made about 700 one-time payments, worth a total of $295,000, from the customer-crisis fund that was approved by the B.C. Utilities Commission during its last rate-design application. It supported by a 25-cent-a-month levy on all residential customers.
“It’s really for those one-time situations, a