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Billing Terms
The following is an explanation of the terms used on your monthly billing
statement:
- Budget Billing Plan
- Avoids high seasonal bills by distributing your costs
evenly over the whole year.
- CCF (100 cubic feet)
- The volume of gas measured by your gas meter.
- Customer Charge
- Helps cover the costs of supplying equipment used to serve
customers, issuing bills and providing customer service programs.
- Degree Days
- Units used for measuring heating and cooling requirements.
Daily degree days are calculated by subtracting the average daily temperature from
65ºF. Heating degree days result if temperatures are less than 65ºF; cooling
degree days if more than 65ºF.
- Energy Cost Adj
- The increase or decrease in the cost of fuel from the amount
included in the current rates.
- Estimate
- An estimated reading is based on actual past use, seasonal
trends and weather. Any difference between the estimated reading
and the actual one will be made up the next time the meter
is read.
- Gas Adjustment Rate (PGAC)
- Can be a credit or a charge. Adjusts the base rate for any changes in the cost of
natural gas.
- Gas Base Rate
- Estimate of the annual cost of gas on a per therm basis.
It includes the cost to contract for adequate pipeline and storage capacity. Annual
estimated costs are spread out evenly over 12 months.
- Gas Supply Acquisition Service
- The purchase and management of gas supplies for our customers, as well as the
carrying costs of purchasing gas supplies in the summer and storing these gas supplies
until winter.
- Gas Supply Service
- The purchase, transportation and storage of gas, as well as the acquisition and
management of gas supplies for our customers; includes "Gas Supply Acquisition Service"
and "Natural Gas Costs."
- KWH (Kilowatt hour)
- A measurement of electric energy. One kWh will light a 100 watt bulb for 10 hours.
- Late Payment Charge (LPC)
- Commission authorized charge of 1% per month on unpaid service balances not paid
in full within 20 days following the issuance of the bill.
- Local Distribution Service
- The safe, reliable transportation of gas across
the Public Service gas distribution system to customers, including metering, billing and
customer service; includes both "Fixed" and "Volumetric" charges to more accurately match
the actual costs of providing these services. Fixed charges do not vary with your usage;
Volumetric charges will vary with your usage.
- WI Low-Income Assistance Fee
- Fee to help fund low-income energy assistance programs such as heating assistance,
weatherization and energy crises.
- Therm
- A measurement of the amount of heat energy in natural gas, equal to 100,000 BTUs. A
BTU, or British Thermal Unit, is the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature
of one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit.
- Utility Service
- Provided by Public Service. Includes customer charge, local distribution rate and gas
refunds.
