NOTICE OF PROPOSED RATE CHANGES To Our Customers: Peoples Natural Gas Company "Peoples") is filing a request with the Pennsyloania Public Utility Commission C"PUC") to increase your natural gas distribution rates as of Manch 29, 2019. This notice decribes the company's rate request, the PUCs role, and what actions you can take. Peoples has requested an overall net distribution rate increasequested rates are reasonable. After examining the evidence, the of S9.9 million per year If you are a Peoples Division customer and if the company's entire request is approved PUC may grant all, some or none of the request or may reduce The PUC may change requested by the utility for each division and customer class. As a result, the rate charged to you may be different than the rate requested by the company and shown above. the amount of the rate increase or decrease The l bill for a Peoples Division using 86 Mcf per year would increase from $74.24 to $84.73 per month or by 14.1%. There are three ways to challenge a company's request to change its rates: .The total bill for a Peoples Division commercial customer 238 Mcf per year would increase from $150.79 to using $172.56 per month or by 14.4%. You can file a formal complaint. If you want a hearing before a judge, you must file a formal complaint. By filing a formal complaint, you assure yourself the opportunity to take part in hearings about the rate increase request. All complaints should be filed with the PUC before April 29, 2019. 1. Rates for a Peoples Division industrial customer using 3.224 Mcf per year would increase from $1.684.32 to $1.95716 per month or by 16.2%. . If you are an Equitable Division customer and if the company's entire request is approved If no formal complaints are filed, the Commission may grant all, some or none of the request without holding a hearing before a judge. . The total bill for an Equitable Division residential customer using 86 Mcf per year would increase from $70.79 to $84.73 per month or by 19.7%. 2. You can send a letter telling why you object to the requested rate increase. Sometimes there is information in these letters that makes us aware of problems with the The total bill for an Equitable Division commercial customer using 238 Mef per year would increase from $158.79 to $172.56 per month or by 8.7%. s service or management. This information can be helpful when the PUC investigates the rate request Rates for an Equitable Division industrial customer using 3.224 Mcf per year would decrease from $2,140.64 to $2,050.63 per month or by 4.2% . Send your letter or equest for a formal complaint form to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, Post Office Box 3265, Harrisburg, PA 17105-3265 To find out your customer class or how the requested increase may affect your natural gas bill, conac Peoples at 1-800-764-0. The rates requested by the company may be found in Tariff No. 47. You may examine the material filed with the PUC which explains the requested reasons for it. A copy of this material is kept at Peoples office Upon request, the company will send you the Statement of Reasons for Tariff No. 47, explaining why the rate increase has been requested 3. You can be a witness at a public input hearing. Public are held if the Commission opens an investigation of the company's rate increase request and if there is a large number of customers interested in the case. At these hearings you present your views in person to the PUC judge hearing the case and the company representatives. All testimony given "under oath becomes part of the official rate case record. increase and the have the The state agency PUC. The PUC will examine the requested rate increase and can prevent existing rates from changing until it investigates and/or holds hearings on the request. The whic h approves rates for public utilities is the For more information, call the PUC at 1-800-692-7380. You may leave your name and address so you can be notified of any public input hearings that may be scheduled in this case. The company must prove that the PEOPLES