'Really Scary': Customers React To Eversource's Potential Rate Hikes

WBZ NewsRadio’s Jim MacKay reports.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right now, you're probably not thinking about cranking up that heat.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Naturally, everybody just looks at their AC bill, But.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
With fall beginning on Monday, now's the time to start
paying attention.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Almost not even looking at the natural gas bill.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Ryan is one of the many natural gas customers from
ever source across the Commonwealth who could be seeing a
thirteen percent rate hike this winter. It's being proposed right
now and still needs approval from the Department of Public Utilities,
but between the gas prices and delivery charges depending on
how cold it is, could be a costly winter season.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
I'd say it's reasonable and along with how everything else goes, the.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Clock is ticking. If the DPU approves this rate hike,
it'll go into effect on November first.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Definitely scary, really scary, something people should be budgeting.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
For in Plymouth. Jim MCKAWBZ Boston's News Radio