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.
Average Energy Prices In Boston-Brockton-Nashua â August 2015. Boston area households paid an average of $2.592 a gallon for gasoline in August 2015, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.Regional Commissioner Deborah A. Brown noted that this was more than 95 cents below the August 2014 price of $3.547 per gallon.rices paid by Boston area consumers for utility (piped) gas, commonly referred to as natural gas, were $0.790 per therm, 15.2 percent below the national average in August 2015 ($0.932 per therm). In August of 2014 local prices were similar to those of the nation. (See chart 3.).