An average residential customer uses about 80 ccf per month, so the retail markup might be close to a dollar less each month, a PUCO spokesman said.
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“We can say a component of your bill will fall 1.3 cents per ccf,” said PUCO spokesman Matt Schilling. “But the gas price itself fluctuates month to month.”
Vectren’s default rate, known as the “standard choice offer,” changes monthly and is calculated as the sum of the retail price adjustment, plus the New York Mercantile Exchange month-end settlement price, PUCO said.
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The price adjustment reflects the winning bidders’ estimate of their cost to deliver natural gas to Vectren’s service area.
The offer will apply to Vectren’s choice-eligible customers that have not selected an alternative supplier, PUCO also said.
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More immediately, however, cold weather is pushing natural gas bills higher.
Last week, Vectren warned customers that since they are using more natural gas in this dramatically colder weather, they can expect gas bills to be higher.
A message was left for a spokeswoman for Vectren.
Vectren’s energy delivery subsidiaries provide gas and/or electricity to more than 1 million customers in nearly two-thirds of Indiana and about 20 percent of Ohio, primarily in the west-central part of the Buckeye State.
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