Gas utilities

While several gas utilities in Illinois reported lower prices compared with May 2025, two companies, Liberty Utilities and Mt. Carmel, reported spikes of 71 percent and 140 percent, according to a CUB review of prices this month.  Illinois utilities file their supply price, called the Purchased Gas Adjustment (PGA), each…...

As Illinois exits the winter heating season, all but two of the state’s major gas utilities are charging a supply price that is lower than a year ago. The two exceptions are Consumers Gas, whose customers face a 48 percent spike in the cost of heating gas, and Liberty Utilities,…...

Continuing a trend of elevated heating gas prices, March supply rates for six out of 9 major Illinois utilities were higher than a year ago, including Consumers Gas (86 percent), Mt. Carmel (60 percent) and Nicor Gas (29 percent).   Roughly eight out of 10 Illinois homes use methane gas for…...

February gas prices showed worrisome signs that winter storms and frigid temperatures across the nation were beginning to have an impact on the price we pay for heating fuel: Supply rates for several utilities jumped by more than 25 percent from a year ago, topped by Nicor Gas, with a…...

All of Illinois’ 9 major utilities are charging heating gas prices that are higher compared with a year ago, led by Nicor Gas, which is charging a supply price that is about 50 percent higher; Liberty Utilities, which is charging a price about 41.7 percent higher; MidAmerican Energy, with a…...