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The Fulton City Council on Tuesday night got an update on natural gas usage.
Heating costs have skyrocketed for the city as more people crank their furnaces during this extended cold snap. Fulton alone is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a day above normal, according to city officials. The city has spent about $3 million of the $5 million in its natural gas reserve fund.
Many local utilities are asking customers to limit their power usage, but they don’t plan on any rolling blackouts.
Fulton mayor Lowe Cannell joined Wake Up Columbia on Wednesday:
More from The Associated Press:
Energy companies serving western and southwest Missouri suspended the use of rolling blackouts Tuesday in parts of western and southwest Missouri early Tuesday. Evergy, Liberty and the cities of Independence and Springfield imposed rolling blackouts early Tuesday. But the Southwest Power Pool, which controls utilities across 14 states, suspended the blackouts late Tuesday morning. The blackouts were imposes Monday and Tuesday morning to decrease demand on systems in the states. The blackouts came while most of Missouri continues a streak of days with high temperatures barely above zero.
(This story was last updated at 7:31 a.m. Wednesday.)
