UGI Cutting Its Natural Gas Rates By 13 Percent

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Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.

Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

November 30, 2011 | 3:00 PM

UGI customers’ natural gas rates will decrease by about 13 percent, beginning next month. Announcing the decrease today, the utility’s vice president credited Marcellus Shale drilling for the price cut.

Reading, PA, November 30, 2011 – UGI Utilities, Inc. – Gas Division (UGI) announced today that its purchased gas cost rates will decrease on December 1, 2011 due to lower wholesale natural gas costs. As a result, the average residential heating customer’s bill will decrease approximately 13.5% percent, from $108.39 to $93.75 per month.
With this rate decrease, natural gas costs for UGI customers will be about 27% less than they were three years ago. According to Vicki O. Ebner, Senior Vice President, Customer & Government Relations, “The increase of supplies of natural gas from Marcellus Shale has helped create continued downward price pressure on natural gas. We are pleased to pass this cost savings on to our customers as we approach the winter heating season, especially in the midst of extreme price volatility for other energy sources. Now more than ever, natural gas is an affordable, efficient and reliable American fuel, and the energy source of choice for homes and businesses. A record number of customers converted to natural gas in the UGI service territories this year, primarily from oil.”