Chancellor George Osborne today announced that employers will no longer have to pay national insurance contributions (NIC) on apprentices aged 24 and under.
The average household in Massachusetts uses about 630 kilowatts of electricity a month, according to the most recent US government data. With National Gridâs new winter rate of 24.24 cents per kilowatt-hour, a typical monthly bill would run slightly more than $150. A National Grid spokesman, Jake Navarro, said that two-thirds of the cost comes from the purchase of electricity from power plants, compared to just over half last winter.
Area natural gas prices were down from one year ago when they averaged $1.084 per therm. In contrast to gasoline and utility (piped) gas prices, the average cost of electricity at 17.9 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) in August was up from 16.9 cents per kWh spent last year.ne year ago, the local price of gasoline at $3.547 per gallon was similar to the national average of $3.540. (See chart 1.). The 17.9 cents per kWh Boston households paid for electricity in August 2015 was 26.1 percent more than the nationwide average of 14.2 cents per kWh.