1. DE Natural Gas Growth Overview
Mike Brumback

2. Power generation Large customer coal and oil conversions
Perspective: Customer needs drive growth strategy
Power generation
Generation (2/3 bypass LDCs, but assess)
Start-up gen: oil to gas duel fuel (large industrial customer equivalent)
Firm vs interruptible rates
Large customer coal and oil conversions
Identified via environmental records
MACT regulations helped

3. Regulatory and Legislative Efforts
Perspective: Customer needs drive growth strategy
Regulatory and Legislative Efforts
Revised main extension tariff
Developed new financial (NPV) analysis tool
Reviewed Energy Efficiency: seen as not beneficial due to coming environmental, appliance & building codes
Proposed Economic Development Rider: HB 319: $3/customer/yr
Analytics for residential customer conversions
Assessed databases: Billing and GIS
Merged and analyzed for conversion opportunities
Revising Marketing messages: gas on street; free service
Gas Marketing Specialists: organizational alignment

4. Customer need: CNG on site: gas pressure & throughput
CNG/ NGVs: Customers Need to “Transition”
Customer need: a way to transition fuels with a small “test” of a few vehicles in the first year or two
Facilitate regional public stations. Find/ combine customers. (See system map re P/A)
North: I-275 from I-75 to I-71 -or- north along I-75 or I-71
South: I-275 in Ky from Rt 25 east past Rt 16, 17, 9 & 27
Union and southward I-471 Grand Ave
East: I-275 @ Rt 32, 28, 52 or Ward’s Corner
West: Kilby or X-County Hwy -or- Dry Fork
Central: I-71 @ Ridge -or- Glendale-Milford
Customer need: CNG on site: gas pressure & throughput
Main extension with minimum usage agreement
Piedmont Merger may increase DE support, including a “possibility” for stations, as they have in other states

5. Minimal proactive resources dedicated as yet to:
Mass marketing for conversion efforts
Vendor or customer incentives for conversion
CH&P
Back-up Generation: oil vs gas
Appliance Promotion: water heaters, gas logs, grills
Gas street Lights

6. Natural Gas Service Territory Noting Propane Area