BATON ROUGE - Following Entergy's sale of natural gas distribution to Delta Utilities, many residents have been concerned about an extra service charge. Public Service Commissioner Davante Lewis explained the fee some people are seeing.

"The sale from Entergy to Delta went into effect July 1 and there’s some lag time between the account rolling over. So for instance, you may have still been billed for 10 days on Entergy after July 1, so your Delta bill will reflect, let’s say, day 11th through 31st and your Entergy bill will reflect day one through day 10," Lewis said.

Lewis explained that the flat service charge was divided between Entergy and Delta, based on how long each provided service during the month. An example he gave was if a customer was with Delta for 20 days, they were bille

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