{"id":104339,"date":"2026-01-31T14:58:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T14:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/direct-energy-regulated-services-announces-natural-gas-rates-for-february-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T14:58:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T14:58:05","slug":"direct-energy-regulated-services-announces-natural-gas-rates-for-february-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/direct-energy-regulated-services-announces-natural-gas-rates-for-february-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Direct Energy Regulated Services Announces Natural Gas Rates for February 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"main-body-container\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Calgary, Alberta, Jan.  31, 2026  (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Direct Energy Regulated Services has announced default natural gas rates for February 2026. These rates will apply to customers who have not chosen a competitive supplier within the ATCO Gas North and South service territories. The method DERS uses to calculate the rates has been verified by the Alberta Utilities Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The February regulated natural gas rate is $2.422 per GJ. This is a decrease from the January rate of $3.390 per GJ.\u00a0 The rate reflects a market price for February supplies of approximately $2.399 per GJ as reported by the NGX and incorporates an adjustment of $0.023 per GJ for January and prior months.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Average Bill Amounts<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The North territory includes customers living in and north of the City of Red Deer.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 The typical residential gas bill for February based on an average 18 GJ of consumption would be approximately $159 in the North.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>South Service Territory<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The South territory includes customers living south of the City of Red Deer.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 The typical residential gas bill for February based on an average 18 GJ of consumption would be approximately $140 in the South.<\/p>\n<p>Typical bill amounts between ATCO North and South regions may differ due to variances in transmission and distribution service provider (TDSP) charges levied by ATCO Gas.<\/p>\n<p><i>Further information on regulated gas supply and a complete list of competitive retailers can be found on the Alberta government\u2019s customer choice website at:\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/Tracker?data=ssAS6Reh01keQ6P56YZpJpiAQfZkfc9kkwTNebw3pN4AT4b8yPAOeDd_APmX1Q06LSQNmtncR1tb0W1HafsJVwXltjE-S2shJ1Q-DfNwkBg=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\"><i>www.ucahelps.gov.ab.ca<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<pre\/>\n            <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calgary, Alberta, Jan. 31, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Direct Energy Regulated Services has announced default natural gas rates for February 2026. These rates will apply to customers who have not chosen a competitive supplier within the ATCO Gas North and South service territories. The method DERS uses to calculate the rates has been verified by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ml.globenewswire.com\/Resource\/Download\/98ce4f04-6d16-4516-91ff-6dc200fcc683","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-globenewswire"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}