You qualify for the plan if you are a Seattle City Light residential customer (homeowner or renter) or a small general service customer and your account balance is zero. If you are an established residential customer but at a new service address, we will use either your prior year's billing history or the prior year's billing history for the previous customer at the service address. (Exception: if the new service address is new construction, we will need your prior year's billing history.) If you are a small commercial customer, we will need at least one prior year of your own billing history to put you on the Budget Billing Plan.