The price you pay for natural gas is made up of delivery and supply charges. Delivery charge: what you pay CNG to transport energy to your home or business. Supply charge: what you pay for the energy purchased for you by CNG.  

• Customer Charge A fixed monthly charge associated with the administration of your account (such as preparing bills, the phone center, reading meters, meter cost, etc.).
• Commodity Charge A charge for the actual amount of natural gas used by the customer.
• Connecticut State Tax Tax applied to the cost of your gas.
• Delivery Rate A charge for moving natural gas across the company’s distribution system to a customer’s home or facility.
• Firm Adjustment Reflects a special refund (credit) to residential and commercial firm customers under the rate design currently authorized by the DPUC.
• PGA A provision in a utility tariff that provides for automatic charges to a customer due to increases or decreases in the cost of gas and represents the difference between the DPUC approved base rate and what our suppliers charge the company for the gas we purchase.  As the cost of gas varies, the PGA amount on the bill will increase or decrease.
• Peak Day Rate A charge for providing pipeline space to accommodate the customer’s highest daily usage. Daily usage is calculated using November – March consumption. Winter months are used because CNG’s overall system peak occurs in the winter.
• Rate Credit The credit is a result of a settlement agreement with the DPUC concerning excess earnings and is applied during winter months (November – March) to provide the customers with reductions when they need it the most.
• Telemetering Charge A fixed monthly charge for the cost of a meter sends information about daily usage to the company.  The Company retains ownership of the Telemetering devices, as it does with all other meter and regulating equipment.
• Total Gas The sum of customer charge plus calculated rates.

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