Company officials expect winter bills to be about 20 percent lower for CenterPoint's residential customers, dropping from $120.59 last winter to an estimated $97.24 this winter. The actual decrease will vary depending on the amount of gas used.
"We are happy to be able to pass this natural gas price decrease on to customers going into the winter heating season since natural gas usage typically increases due to heating needs," said Walter Bryant, CenterPoint's vice president of gas operations in Oklahoma.
Houston-based CenterPoint serves about 100,000 customers in Oklahoma, including Lawton, McAlester, Ada, Fairview and Blackwell.
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