My current home is heated with natural gas. My older homes burned oil and I was glad to be finally rid of that. Natural gas is a much cheaper way to go - provided you can get it.
I seemed to get the impression that individual homes using natural gas directly would get priority over electricity producers using NG to power plants.
Natural gas may be cheaper, but my utility company (Duke) charges not only for your usage, but adds an additional $40 each month just “to have” their natural gas service.
I have them “turn off” my natural gas (since only used for heating) from spring until Fall. I just had them “turn it on” last week again. So stupid to pay $240 for 6 months of NOT using it at all.
And they’ll still bill me the $17 to “turn it on” again, even though it was never actually disconnected other than a phone call in the spring when they quit charging me for it.
Since Covid they quit coming to the house in person twice a year to actually disconnect it or turn it back on (charging $17 to turn it back on) - so I still have the natural gas there at any time I want to use it - but once I start using it they start adding that additional $40.
I wish they’d get rid of that charge. It makes no sense other than for them to make more money.