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Why this bill changed

INV-2025-04-088210 · Navasota ISD — Transportation Barn · Apr 2025
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Your April bill is $120.61 lower than your March bill.

You used less gas, or gas cost less. You used 255 therms this period against 458 in March.

  1. Mar 2025$289.89
  2. Weather−$99.33
  3. Usage beyond weather−$7.65
  4. Gas cost−$13.63
  5. Apr 2025$169.28

Charges and taxes for the period; any previous balance is not part of the change.

What to say

A talk track — the caller sees the same explanation in the portal
  1. “Your April bill is $120.61 lower than your March bill. You used less gas, or gas cost less.”
  2. “If this bill is hard right now, budget billing would make it about $225.00 every month, or we can spread this one out.”

Each cause, in words

3Largest first — what the customer reads in the portalExpand
  • −$99.33

    Milder weather

    This period had 132 heating degree days against 291 — 55% milder. At the same gas per degree of cold, that alone is about 188 therms less.

  • −$13.63

    Natural gas cost

    The purchased gas adjustment — what we pay for the gas itself, passed through at no markup — fell from $0.4190 to $0.3655 a therm.

  • −$7.65

    Less usage than expected

    You used about 15 therms less than the weather predicts — that saved you money.

What to offer

  • Budget billing

    About $225.00 a month, from the last twelve bills, settled once a year.

    Letter
  • Payment arrangement

    Spread this bill over the next few without collection activity.

    Letter
  • Energy assistance referral

    Local agencies; a pledge pauses collections while it is processed.

    Letter

Emergency line for anything that smells like gas: (979) 555-0199.

Usage and weather

12 bill periods · zone heating degree days
Feb458Mar ’25255Apr ’25MayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan
Apr 2025 Mar 2025 Therms billed Heating degree days

Show the math

Therms, degree days and every rate, both bills — one change at a timeExpand
Mar 2025Apr 2025
Therms billed457.61254.80
… the weather alone predicts269.31
Heating degree days291132
Normal degree days318151
Base load (summer)113.0 th
Gas cost (PGA) / th$0.41900$0.36550
Weather adjustment / th——
Customer charge$48.00$48.00
Distribution, first 500 th$0.10850$0.10850
Distribution, beyond$0.10850$0.10850
GRIP rider / th——
Charges and taxes$289.89$169.28

Starting from the Mar 2025 bill, the engine re-prices it at the volume the weather predicts, then at the volume used, then swaps in this period’s gas cost, weather adjustment, and each base rate in turn. Every step is priced line by line and rounded the way the biller writes lines, so the steps add to the real difference — −$120.61 — to the cent. It reproduces every issued bill in the system exactly.