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Natural Gas Users Get Relief

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Posted 4/10/04

Natural gas users in Fayette and Armstrong will receive welcome news on their bills this month: A handsome credit based on refunds from pipeline companies. Missouri Gas Energy indicated the average …

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Natural Gas Users Get Relief

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Natural gas users in Fayette and Armstrong will receive welcome news on their bills this month: A handsome credit based on refunds from pipeline companies.

Missouri Gas Energy indicated the average credit' a figure reducing the total April bill' would be about $22.

However, one of the first customers to get a bill this month got a credit of $42.28. The bill for the prior month's gas was reduced from $65.35 to $23.07.

That was the bill of St. Mary's Episcopal Church. Automatic thermostats keep the temperature low most of the time, because the buildings are not in use.
'The amount of credit is based on each customer's prior natural gas usage,' said Jim Oglesby, MGE president.

A typical customer, using 880 ccf (hundreds of cubic feet) of gas over a one-year period will receive a credit of about $22, the company said.

Normally, the gas company would distribute the pipeline refunds by slightly reducing rates over a 12-month period.

But because of the high rates during the past winter, the company wanted to bring relief immediately, Oglesby said.

Customers sustained sticker shock in January, February and March. The cost of gas was far greater than that in recent years.

MGE said it received about $20 million in refunds from pipeline companies, who transport the gas from the producing fields to retailers in Missouri and Kansas.

'The Missouri Public Service Commission and Missouri Gas Energy pursued these refunds through proceedings in court and before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,' said Oglesby.

'Our customers are the sole beneficiaries. We appreciate the help of state officials.'

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