Water and Sewer
The City of Santa Cruz provides water and sewage services to the main campus and Long Marine Lab. We are the City’s largest customer and consume about 5% of the City’s total water production.

Natural Gas
We are members of the State buying pool for natural gas through the Department of General Services Gas Procurement Program. The fuel prices change monthly and are a mixture of fixed, long term contracts and spot market prices. Some of the transportation is provided by PG&E.

Electricity
Since deregulation of electricity began in 1996, we have participated as a “Direct Access” customer with PG&E. This means that the electric commodity has been purchased under a separate contract from the transportation and distribution services that have continued to be provided by PG&E. The first four years we were under contract with Enron Corp. and given a 5% discount from what PG&E would have charged us. With the bankruptcy of Enron and the concurrent collapse of deregulation in the State we have been able to hang onto our direct access status and are currently under contract with Arizona Public Services. Our own cogeneration plant provides about one-half of the main campus electricity and one-third of the heat.