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October 15, 2025

We expect energy expenditures this winter will vary based on a home’s main space heating fuel: homes heating with natural gas will pay about the same amount for natural gas as they did last winter, but homes heating with electricity will pay more than they did last winter. Homes heating with propane or heating oil will pay less than they did last winter.

Trends in retail energy prices account for most of the changes in heating expenditures in our Winter Fuels Outlook, released today. We expect weather this winter will be similar to or milder than last winter.

The weather is a key source of uncertainty in these forecasts, so we provide two side cases that assume colder or warmer winter temperatures, as measured by heating degree days. In 9 of

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