[Dana1963]

Originally Posted by Knighterrant

This is a public service thread. Review your new gas bill from Peoples Gas.

I just received my June gas bill. $132! That is for a 31 day billing cycle. Our normal gas bill averages around $35 per month.

We live south of 44. So we utilize gas for hot water, kitchen stove and clothes dryer. There are only two of us, and we don’t do a lot of cooking. We have not modified any appliances since the change to Peoples Gas, nor has there been any landscaping activities that might have damaged a gas line.

The only change has been that Peoples Gas is the new provider. The bill did not include any fee(s) for provider change. Peoples does charge around $15 per month for a service fee regardless of usage. So everyone’s gas bill will likely go up that much.

I have spoken with some of my neighbors, and there bills have gone up considerably as well (+$30 to $40). Not as much as mine, but material relative to prior months.

Peoples Gas is going to perform another meter reading for me to confirm usage. And I suspect there will be an adjustment. But if the adjustment results in a bill equivalent to my neighbors, I will still be paying a 100% increase for gas.

I’m just trying to make people aware of the potential issue. Clearly there is a reason Peoples wanted to take over gas service in TV. So some increase to billing is expected. And there isn’t an alternative provider for gas.

But theoretically gas is supposed to be more efficient compared to electric. If I were to swap those appliances to electric appliances, I am confident that my monthly electric bill would increase by a lower amount than what I am paying in gas for the same appliances. Of course one would then have to determine if such savings would be worth the cost of the new appliances.

It is either a bad meter or reading or you have a gas leak