COLUMBUS — Residents enjoying the higher-than-normal winter temperatures are getting one other treat courtesy of Mother Nature: lower-than-normal home heating bills.
The warm winter has cut most consumers’ energy consumption, so we’re paying less than we typically do.
So far, the first three months of the five-month heating season have been 15 to 25 percent warmer than normal, said Chase Kelley, director of corporate communications for Vectren Corp., which distributes electricity and natural gas to business and residential customers across two-thirds of Indiana.
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