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Why this bill changed

INV-2025-05-005520 · Wendell Fry · May 2025
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Your May bill is $12.89 lower than your April bill.

You used less gas, or gas cost less. You used 37 therms this period against 58 in April.

  1. Apr 2025$56.79
  2. Weather−$12.22
  3. Usage beyond weather+$0.88
  4. Gas cost−$1.00
  5. Taxes and fees−$0.55
  6. May 2025$43.90

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 May bill is $12.89 lower than your April bill. You used less gas, or gas cost less.”
  2. “If this bill is hard right now, budget billing would make it about $71.00 every month, or we can spread this one out.”

Each cause, in words

3Largest first — what the customer reads in the portalExpand
  • −$12.22

    Milder weather

    This period had 38 heating degree days against 132 — 71% milder. At the same gas per degree of cold, that alone is about 23 therms less.

  • −$1.00

    Natural gas cost

    The purchased gas adjustment — what we pay for the gas itself, passed through at no markup — fell from $0.3655 to $0.3380 a therm.

  • −$0.55

    Taxes and fees

    The city franchise fee and taxes are a percentage of the charges above, so they move with them.

What to offer

  • Budget billing

    About $71.00 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
FebMar58Apr ’2537May ’25JunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan
May 2025 Apr 2025 Therms billed Heating degree days

Show the math

Therms, degree days and every rate, both bills — one change at a timeExpand
Apr 2025May 2025
Therms billed57.7936.53
… the weather alone predicts34.92
Heating degree days13238
Normal degree days15144
Base load (summer)25.7 th
Gas cost (PGA) / th$0.36550$0.33800
Weather adjustment / th——
Customer charge$22.50$22.50
Distribution, first 50 th$0.18240$0.18240
Distribution, beyond$0.14190$0.18240
GRIP rider / th——
Charges and taxes$56.79$43.90

Starting from the Apr 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 — −$12.89 — to the cent. It reproduces every issued bill in the system exactly.