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City Utilities customers could soon be seeing higher natural gas bills following a winter storm that froze gas wells and forced rolling blackouts throughout the region. On Monday, representatives from CU presented a plan to city council to spread out the cost of purchasing a portion of its gas at heavily inflated prices during the February freeze over a maximum 24-month period. That cost, which will be roughly $375 for an average customer, will be recovered by increasing the price of natural gas by roughly 20 percent for the vast majority of commercial and residential customers. If the entire...

City Utilities approves plan to extend weather crisis billing over 2 years; City Council has next move Gregory J. Holman, Springfield News-Leader © Andrew Jansen/News-Leader A look down South Avenue in Downtown Springfield on Monday, Feb. 15, 2021. As of 12:45 p.m. on Monday, the National Weather Service had the temperature listed at -2 degrees. Springfield's Board of Public Utilities on Thursday approved two measures intended to manage costs linked to last week's severe weather energy crisis, as well as future events like it. Now the new policies need City Council approv...