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Ontario natural gas rates to drop in the new year, except for Enbridge customers

An Enbridge Inc. gas meter is seen in this photo taken with a tilt-shift lens in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. Brent Lewin/Bloomberg via Getty Images

TORONTO – Rates for natural gas customers in Ontario will be changing in the new year.

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The Ontario Energy Board has released the new rates it has approved for Enbridge, EPCOR and Union Gas customers effective Jan. 1.

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Enbridge customers with average usage can expect to pay about $58 more per year, factoring in new rates as well as the impact of a previous OEB decision and the expiry of a credit on bills.

Typical customers of EPCOR Natural Gas – which purchased the distribution system of Natural Resource Gas Ltd. this summer – can expect to pay about $19.17 less per year.

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Union Gas customers with average usage can all expect to pay less, though the amounts vary in different regions.

Customers in the south will pay about $28.02 less per year, in the north west customers’ bills will decrease by about $23.55 per year and customers in the north east will pay about $5.57 less per year.

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