ACE, the Public Alliance for Community Energy, again had the lowest rollover natural gas rates among all suppliers in the Nebraska Choice Gas program.
Rollover rates from each supplier are applied to residential customers who did not make a selection during the two-week Choice Gas selection period, which ended April 30. Customers receive a rollover rate from the supplier they had the previous year. Each supplier’s rates are set after the end of the selection period.
Natural gas commodity prices during the selection period were about 40 percent lower than the previous year. The lower commodity pricing along with the lowest rollover rate is welcome relief to ACE customers affected by the current economy heading into the fall and winter.
ACE’s rollover fixed rate for the 2009-10 gas year (June 1 through May 30, 2010) is .779 cents per therm in the central region and .703 in the western region. The two rates are the lowest of the four suppliers that competed for customers during the selection period, according to rates released by the Nebraska Public Service Commission. Customers who chose ACE’s new MarketShield pricing option also received the favorable rollover rate.
“As a community-owned, not-for-profit supplier, ACE’s primary mission is to help keep natural gas prices as low as possible for everyone in the program,” said Beth Ackland, ACE retail gas services coordinator. “Whether you actively selected ACE as your supplier during the selection period or simply chose to remain a loyal ACE customer by rolling over from the previous year, we try and take care of each customer by striving to get the lowest price possible.