Switching Georgia Gas Suppliers

Switching natural gas marketers in Georgia is free, takes a few minutes, and does not interrupt your service. No one visits your home, nothing is dug up, and no pipe is touched. The only thing that changes is which company bills you for the gas itself.

Why switching is low-risk

Under Georgia natural gas deregulation, the distribution system stayed with the utility. Atlanta Gas Light still owns the pipes, reads your meter and responds to leaks — regardless of which marketer you choose. Switching changes the supply portion of your bill and nothing else. If your marketer went out of business tomorrow, your gas would keep flowing.

Before you switch: three numbers

Pull these off your current bill, because without them you cannot tell whether an offer is actually better:

1. Your current supply rate in cents per therm.
2. Your monthly service charge — the flat marketer fee.
3. Your monthly therms, ideally across a full year.

Understand your natural gas bill shows where each appears, and how to understand GA gas rates explains how to combine them into a real comparison.

Check for an early termination fee

If you are mid-term on a fixed rate plan, you may owe an early termination fee — commonly $50 to $150. Compare that against your projected savings over the remaining months. Sometimes paying it still wins; often it is better to wait and diary the end date. On a variable plan there is usually no fee at all, so you can move immediately.

How to switch, step by step

1. Compare current offers. Start with current Georgia natural gas rates, filtered to the term and plan type you want.
2. Compare total cost, not headline rate. Multiply the rate by your therms and add the monthly service charge.
3. Read the terms. Term length, early termination fee, whether the rate is fixed or variable, and what happens at the end of the term.
4. Enroll with the new marketer. You will need your AGL account number, which is on your bill. The new marketer handles the changeover.
5. Do not cancel your old marketer yourself. The switch does that. Cancelling first can leave you briefly unenrolled and assigned an expensive default rate.
6. Check the first new bill to confirm the rate matches what you agreed.

Timing

A switch normally takes effect on your next meter read, so expect one to two billing cycles. You cannot usually pick the exact date. If you are switching to beat winter, start in early autumn rather than December.

What does not change

• Your gas supply — it is the same gas in the same pipe.
• Your meter and your AGL account number.
• Who you call for a leak or an outage: always Atlanta Gas Light, and 911 in an emergency.
• AGL delivery charges, which are PSC-set and identical across marketers.

If your credit is a concern

Some marketers run a credit check and may ask for a deposit. Prepaid and no-deposit plans exist precisely for this situation — see poor credit? you have options.

Start comparing

See every current plan on the rate comparison page, or go directly to Georgia Natural Gas, Gas South, SCANA Energy, Constellation or XOOM Energy. Rates are the same in Atlanta, Marietta, Savannah and everywhere else on the AGL system.