It might go away sooner than you think.
This is a warning of things to come. Gas is becoming more and more expensive to supply, especially where the number of customers is small.
Solstice Energy chief executive Phaedra Deckart said switching from piped gas to bottled gas or electricity would be “better for customers in the long run”.
“The basis upon which the network was built assumed a much larger demand and a much greater number of customers,” she said.
“We have tried everything to make this network viable, however, it is a very high-cost network to truck compressed natural gas to each of these regional towns, and ultimately, costs are going up for customers.”
Solstice Energy announced a 50 per cent price increase to the 10 impacted towns last Monday.
Customers had already been hit with an 80 per cent increase in January 2023.
Ms Deckart said Solstice would need to continue raising prices every year for its compressed gas service to remain viable.
