GPU Advanced Resources of Reading, PA, and NUI Energy, ofBedminster, NJ, formed a retail marketing alliance that will giveeach company access to the other’s unregulated retail gas andelectric customers. GPU Advanced Resources currently serves about17,000 electric customers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, while NUIis active in retail gas customer choice programs in New Jersey,Pennsylvania and Maryland. The alliance is effective immediately.

“NUI Energy has a wealth of experience serving customers in theunregulated gas market place, as do we when it comes to retailelectricity. Both of our companies believe that by working togetherwe will be able to market our services more efficiently whiledelivering better value to our customers,” said RobertPlenderleith, President of GPU Advanced Resources.

Rick Devaney, executive director of NUI Energy, said thealliance will “enable us to broaden our base of customers in retailmarkets where GPU Advanced Resources has a foothold, and to expandour offerings to retail electricity in our own primary markets. Weare excited about this unique combination and what it brings toboth existing and potential customers in terms of experience,commitment to customer service and our ability to provide customerswith a more complete product package.”

GPU Advanced Resources is an unregulated subsidiary of GPU Inc.,which has three electric utility subsidiaries service two millioncustomers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. NUI Energy Inc. is anaffiliate of NUI Corp., which owns and operates six gasdistribution companies serving more than 370,000 customers in NewJersey, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Maryland and NewYork.

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