Natural Gas Rates

MGE takes seriously our responsibility to provide safe, reliable energy at reasonable rates. We work hard to control our costs. In 2023, MGE filed an application with the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSCW) to increase natural gas rates in 2024. The PSCW approved some of MGE's requests, setting our natural gas rates. ​Effective Jan. 1, 2024, the approved natural gas distribution and gas supply service rates reflect an overall increase of 2.44% across all customers in 2024.

The primary reasons for the gas increase are continued investments in system modernization projects to maintain a safe and dependable system and the collection of the escrow accounts for uncollectible costs, including costs related to COVID.

The following natural gas rates are for services rendered on and after April 1, 2024.

Your bill will include:

  • Distribution Service charges.
  • Firm Gas Sales Service charges.
Residential Distribution Service (RD-1)  
System connection and customer service charge per day $0.6575
Distribution service, per therm $0.2531
 
Firm Gas Sales Service (FS-1)  
Administrative charge, per therm $0.0163
Natural gas service, per therm (varies monthly with the cost to purchase gas supply) $0.2705
 
Monthly Price (combining the above rates)
Distribution Rate Supply Rate Total Per-Day Charge Total Per-Therm Charge
RD-1 FS-1 $0.6575 $0.5399
RD-1: Distribution rate for residential customers
FS-1: Supply rate for customers receiving firm gas supply service.

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