Customers of Peoples Natural Gas will pay less for their gas beginning Sunday, Jan 1.

Effective New Year’s Day, the quarterly adjusted cost recovery rate will decrease from $8.88 per thousand cubic feet to $7.52 per mcf, said Carol Scalon, Peoples manager of rates.

With the decrease, the average residential customer who uses 87,000 cubic feet per year, or 7.3 mcf per month, will see a monthly bill decrease from $118 to $107, Scanlon said.

“The reason for the decrease is due to market prices being down. The commodity gas cost is a straight dollar-for-dollar pass through from Peoples to the customers,” Scanlon said.

Peoples serves about 31,200 customers in Blair County.