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Utility Files Updated Cost Of Gas Filing

Dockets: 2025-00248
Category: Maine
Related Categories: Gas, Rate Change, Unitil, Utility

Unitil made updated cost of gas (COG) filing. updated cost of gas (COG)

The filing provides: (1) “an updated CGF rate for the residential class of $0.6498 per therm… an increase of $0.0347 per therm from the average 2024 / 2025 Winter Period CGF rate”; (2) compared to the original filing, the “Revised Filing produces a $0.0071 per therm decrease for residential and low load factor [C&I] customers”; and (3) “The typical residential heating customer, using 615 therms in the 2025 / 2026 Winter Period, will pay $979.05… an increase of $37.87 or 3.9% from the 2024 / 2025 Winter Period.”

Other activity includes:

  • On October 10, 2025 Unitil filed reply comments
  • Previously on October 7, 2025, OPA filed  comments recommending that the  MEPUC should approve Unitil’s proposed rate changes.
  • On October 1st the transcript of August 26, 2025 hearing made available.

2025-00248
(Northern Utilities, Inc. Docket No. 2025-00248 – Revised Proposed Cost of Gas Factor Clause for the Winter Period November 2025 through April 2026 (“Revised Filing”))