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EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

Tracy L. Burleson

tburleson@aga.org

202/824-7229

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS

Michael Murray

Jennifer O’Shea

CIRCULATION MANAGER

Sherri R. Hamm

shamm@aga.org

MANAGING EDITOR

Sam Hoffmeister

SENIOR EDITOR

Danielle Wong Moores

copy Editor

Amanda Holahan

Vice President

Serena L. Spiezio

Art Director

Mike Vucic

Advertising

Justin Wolfe

The YGS Group

717/430-2238

justin.wolfe@theYGSgroup.com

OFFICERS

CHAIR of the Board

Diane Leopold, Dominion Energy

First VICE CHAIR

David H. Anderson, NW Natural

Second VICE CHAIR

Kimberly Green, Southern Company Gas

IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR

James P. Torgerson, AVANGRID Inc.

PRESIDENT & CEO

Karen Alderman Harbert, American Gas Association

chief operating officer

Lori S. Traweek, American Gas Association

GENERAL COUNSEL

Michael L. Murray, American Gas Association

CORPORATE SECRETARY

Gary W. Gardner, American Gas Association

CHIEF FINANCIAL & ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER

Kevin M. Hardardt, American Gas Association

DIRECTORS

Kurt Adams, Summit Utilities Inc.

Kevin Akers, Atmos Energy Corp.

William J. Akley, Eversource Energy

David Bauer, National Fuel Gas Co.

Robert F. Beard, UGI Utilities Inc.

Lonnie E. Bellar, LG&E-KU, PPL Cos.

David M. Daly, Public Service Electric and Gas Co.

Linden Evans, Black Hills Corp.

Joseph Hamrock, NiSource Inc.

John P. Hester, Southwest Gas Holdings Inc.

Jeffry Householder, Chesapeake Utilities Corp.

Michael Innocenzo, PECO, An Exelon Co.

Donald “Blue” Jenkins, WGL Holdings Inc.

Nicole A. Kivisto, Montana-Dakota Utilities Co.

J. Bret Lane, Southern California Gas Co.

Kent T. Larson, Xcel Energy Inc.

James P. Laurito, Fortis Inc.

Richard J. Mark, Ameren Illinois

Charles Matthews, Peoples Gas and North Shore Gas

John McAvoy, Consolidated Edison Inc.

Paul W. Nester, RGC Resources Inc.

Jerry Norcia, DTE Energy

Pierce H. Norton II, ONE Gas Inc.

Patricia K. Poppe, CMS Energy Corp.

David Robbins Jr., South Jersey Gas Co.

Ian Robertson, Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp.

Robert C. Rowe, NorthWestern Energy

Suzanne Sitherwood, Spire Inc.

John Somerhalder, CenterPoint Energy

T.J. Szelistowski, TECO Energy

Ross W. Turrini, National Grid

Andrew Vesey, Pacific Gas & Electric Co.

Charles S. Warrington, Clearwater Gas System

Sasha Weintraub, Duke Energy Corp.

Stephen Westhoven, New Jersey Resources

Craig E. White, Philadelphia Gas Works

Advisory Directors

Frank Almaraz, CPS Energy

Stanley Chapman III, TC Energy

Jeffrey Harrison, Citizens Energy Group

Leigh Ann Shoji-Lee, Pacific Northern Gas

Dennis Vermillion, Avista Corp.

Adam L. Wright, MidAmerican Energy Co.

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The American Gas Association, founded in 1918, represents more than 200 local energy companies that deliver clean natural gas throughout the United States. There are more than 74 million residential, commercial and industrial natural gas customers in the U.S., of which 95%—more than 71 million customers—receive their gas from AGA members. Today, natural gas meets more than one-fourth of the United States’ energy needs.

American Gas provides natural gas industry professionals with the information they need to enhance their effectiveness and that of their companies by publishing leading-edge reports on the industry and on American Gas Association activities that offer value to its members.

American Gas (ISSN 1043-0652) is published monthly by the American Gas Association, 400 N. Capitol St., N.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001. Phone numbers: advertising, 717/430-2218; editorial, 717/430-2397. Statements of fact and opinion herein are the responsibility of the authors and advertisers alone and do not imply an opinion or endorsement on the part of the American Gas Association.