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Why this bill changed

INV-2025-06-062118 · Kettle & Crumb Bakery · Jun 2025
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Your June bill is $14.02 lower than your May bill.

You used less gas, or gas cost less. You used 79 therms this period against 112 in May.

  1. May 2025$108.44
  2. Weather−$14.10
  3. Usage beyond weather−$0.37
  4. Gas cost−$0.68
  5. Rates and charges+$2.43
  6. Taxes and fees−$1.30
  7. Jun 2025$94.42

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 June bill is $14.02 lower than your May bill. You used less gas, or gas cost less.”
  2. “If this bill is hard right now, budget billing would make it about $214.00 every month, or we can spread this one out.”

Each cause, in words

4Largest first — what the customer reads in the portalExpand
  • −$14.10

    Milder weather

    This period had 2 heating degree days against 38 — 95% milder. At the same gas per degree of cold, that alone is about 32 therms less.

  • +$2.43

    Rates and charges

    Since your May bill, the cost-of-service adjustment (GRIP) was added (+$2.43).

  • −$1.30

    Taxes and fees

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

  • −$0.68

    Natural gas cost

    The purchased gas adjustment — what we pay for the gas itself, passed through at no markup — fell from $0.3380 to $0.3294 a therm.

What to offer

  • Budget billing

    About $214.00 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

13 bill periods · zone heating degree days
FebMarApr112May ’2579Jun ’25JulAugSepOctNovDecJanFeb
Jun 2025 May 2025 Therms billed Heating degree days

Show the math

Therms, degree days and every rate, both bills — one change at a timeExpand
May 2025Jun 2025
Therms billed111.6679.26
… the weather alone predicts80.08
Heating degree days382
Normal degree days444
Base load (summer)78.3 th
Gas cost (PGA) / th$0.33800$0.32940
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—$0.03070
Charges and taxes$108.44$94.42

Starting from the May 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 — −$14.02 — to the cent. It reproduces every issued bill in the system exactly.