Natural Gas Rates

Our rates for gas services are comparable with Southern California gas utilities and historically have resulted in the lowest average residential gas bills in Southern California. As the citizens of Long Beach are also the owners of our gas utility, our revenues provide not only our gas services and maintenance of our pipeline system but also are used to help pay for vital community services such as police, fire, parks, and library services. Your gas utility rates include both the cost to deliver service to your home or business and the cost of the natural gas commodity charged by our suppliers. Similar to other energy prices, the commodity cost of natural gas can increase and decrease according to gas market pricing. Long Beach Utilities does not produce natural gas; we buy natural gas on the open competitive market. We will continue to purchase natural gas at the most competitive price. However, as a direct result of these price fluctuations, your gas bill may be higher compared to last year's bill.

Monthly Cost Of Gas: Commodity Charge Per Month

Long Beach Utilities’ cost of gas is calculated using two pricing portfolios:

• Core customers
• Non-Core customers

These two portfolios may be comprised of any one or combination of three increments of supply as follows:

• Interstate supplies delivered into the Southern California Gas Company's intrastate pipeline system,
• Gas storage withdrawals, and
• Any local gas delivered directly to Long Beach Utilities’ pipeline system.

For more detailed information on how the commodity charge is calculated, refer to the specific rate schedules that are listed below. The Core Commodity Charge applies to those customers billed under Rate Schedule 1, 2, 3 and/or 5. The Non-Core Commodity Charge applies to those customers billed under Rate Schedule 4 and/or 7.

The monthly Commodity Charges for each of the previous 15 months are as follows:

• Core Commodity Charge (per Therm)
• Non-Core Commodity Charge (per Therm)
• BTU FACTOR