We Energies: Heating costs could be lowest in more than a decade

MILWAUKEE -- We Energies issued Wednesday, October 21st  its 2015-16 winter heating cost forecast –predicting that the cost for the typical residential natural gas customer for this winter’s heating season will be less than the cost for any winter season since 2001-02.

Based on a normal winter and natural gas prices remaining where they are today on the spot market, the average residential customer would pay $489 between Nov. 1, 2015, and April 30, 2016.

Along with being the lowest-cost heating season in 14 years, the average residential customer would pay:

The calculation of normal winter weather is based on the average of daily temperatures during the past 20 winter heating seasons.