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WSJ Your Money Briefing

Why It Could Cost You More to Beat the Heat This Summer

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Business News

3.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Rising temperatures and high natural-gas prices mean you could be paying more to keep your home cool this summer. WSJ commodities reporter Ryan Dezember joins host Ariana Aspuru to talk about how high your electricity bill could jump and what to keep in mind as you crank up the air conditioning. Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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ek slash special offer. Here's your money briefing for Tuesday June 25th. I'm Adiana Espoodoo for the Wall Street Journal,

0:34.9

filling in for J.R. Waylan. We're getting to the end of a hot, sweaty

0:42.2

June for many parts of the country, which means you can

0:46.9

expect your first electricity bill of the season to come in soon.

0:51.2

And higher natural gas prices mean that if you've been in the habit of keeping that

0:54.9

AC at a cool 65 or forgetting to turn it off when you're out, get ready to pay up.

1:01.8

The average power bill this summer in America

1:05.6

will be up about 3% to about $173 a month.

1:10.7

So it doesn't sound like a lot,

1:12.4

but for some people it will be significant and other people might pay less.

1:16.0

So how much are you going to feel that electricity bill this summer?

1:20.0

Our Commodities reporter, Ryan December December joins me to talk about it.

1:24.0

After the break. AI may be the most important new computer technology ever, but AI needs a lot of

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