The residential natural gas rate is made up of three components: The Service Charge, the Delivery Charge and the Purchased Gas Cost Charge. The following is an example of residential Gas Rate Number 600. See a complete listing of our natural gas rates.

Service Charge
The service charge is applied on each metered service. This charge covers CFU's overhead costs associated with meter reading, customer services, billing, service calls, and meter maintenance. The monthly service charge for residential customers is $10.30 per month.

Delivery Charge
$2.12 per MCF. Charge to deliver natural gas to homes.

Purchased Gas Cost Charge (PGA)
The Purchased Gas Cost Charge (PGA) reflects the cost of the natural gas commodity and its delivery to Cedar Falls. This cost varies each month and is billed directly with no markup.  This component of the bill changes each month.  If your billed usage occurs both before and after the first of the month, your effective PGA will be calculated for the number of days each PGA was in effect.

The PGA for January 2010 is $6.8838 per MCF.

How to Calculate Your Natural Gas Costs
If a residence consumed 10.0 MCF in January, the natural gas cost would be as shown below:

Service Charge	$10.30
Delivery Charge - 10.0 MCF @ $2.12/MCF	$21.12
Purchased Gas Adjustment @ $6.8838/MCF	$68.88
Local Option Tax (1%)	$1.00
Total Cost:	$101.30