Your bill has three parts. We change one.
Almost everything people worry about when they switch gas supplier turns out not to be in play at all. Here is the whole mechanism, with nothing left out.
What actually happens
Your utility — SaskEnergy, Duke Energy Ohio or Nicor Gas depending on where you live — does two separate jobs today. It buys the gas and it delivers the gas. Deregulation split those apart and let you choose who does the first one.
The delivery half is a monopoly and always will be: one set of pipes runs down your street, and the utility owns them, maintains them and reads your meter. Nobody is proposing to change that, and nobody could.
The buying half is open. That is the part we do. We buy the gas and deliver it into the utility’s system in your name. The utility then delivers your share to your house exactly as it always has.
Your utility notes on your bill that your supply now comes from Future Now Energy. That is the entire visible difference.
What does not change
Your bill
One bill, from the same utility, on the same schedule, paid the same way. We never send you a separate invoice.
Your service
Same pipes, same meter, same crews. If a line needs work, the utility does it. We have no equipment on your property.
Your emergency number
Unchanged, and it is never ours. If you smell gas you call the utility — see the safety page.
Your reliability
Gas is gas. It is physically the same molecule in the same pipe. Supply does not get interrupted because of who sells it to you.
Six lines. One of them is ours.
Here is a Saskatchewan gas bill, with the names SaskEnergy actually prints on it. Every line but one is theirs, and switching supplier does not move any of them.
SaskEnergy
Natural gas statement
Example
- Basic Monthly ChargeSaskEnergy
Fixed. The cost of being connected.
- Delivery ChargeSaskEnergy
Per cubic metre, to move the gas to you.
- Gas Consumption ChargeFuture Now Energy
Per cubic metre, for the gas itself.
$36.30 on a $110 bill — and 15% of it, $5.45, comes back to you.
- Municipal SurchargeSaskEnergy
Collected on behalf of your municipality.
- Federal Carbon ChargeSaskEnergy
Zero on residential gas since 1 April 2025.
- GSTSaskEnergy
On the charges above.
The same gas, whoever supplies it
Every supplier buys from the same wholesale market and delivers into the same pipe. What differs is the rate you are charged, the terms you sign, and whether any of it comes back to you.
- 01Your right
You choose
Saskatchewan, Ohio and Illinois all let you pick who supplies your gas. Most households have no idea the choice exists.
- 02What changes
Future Now Energy
We buy the gas and deliver it into your utility’s system in your name. The supply line on your bill is the only thing that changes.
- 03Unchanged
Your utility
Still owns the pipes, still delivers, still reads your meter, still sends you one bill, still answers emergencies.
- 04The rebate
15% comes back
A rebate of 15% of your gas supply charge, accruing every month and paid out by cheque.
Four steps, and you do one of them
1. You send us your address. We check it falls inside your utility’s service area. No account number is needed at this stage, and none should ever be given to someone who calls or knocks unannounced.
2. We send you the agreement. Rate type, term, rebate terms and cancellation rights, in writing, before you commit to anything.
3. You sign — or you don’t. Nothing changes on your account until you do. In Saskatchewan you then have a further 20 business days to cancel at no cost.
4. Your utility makes the change. They handle it on their side and note it on your next bill. There is no visit, no equipment change and no interruption.
When it is worth doing
Most of the year’s gas is burned between November and March, so most of the rebate is earned in those months too. A switch that lands before the heating season is worth more than the same switch in June — not because anything expires, but because there is simply more gas on the bill to take a percentage of.