Planalytics Inc. announced that Citizens Gas & Coke Utility has renewed its contract for Planalytics Gas Buyer(SM), a financial risk management tool for purchasing and hedging natural gas. “Planalytics Gas Buyer is a key part of our risk management strategy,” said Lindsay Lindgren, vice president of Gas Operations for Citizens Gas & Coke Utility. “The Gas Buyer’s year-ahead analysis of gas prices helps us sort through the day-to-day market volatility and bring increased price stability to our 262,000 customers.” The company’s Gas Buyer provides daily buying, selling or hedging actions designed to reduce risk and take advantage of opportunities presented by weather-driven effects on gas prices. The web-based tool combines long- range weather intelligence, weekly storage data, inventory change forecasts, real-time NYMEX futures contract pricing and advanced neural network technologies into an engine that determines if natural gas for any of the next twelve months is currently overvalued or undervalued. Planalytics said it is hosting a live Planalytics Gas Buyer web cast from 3:30 to 4:00 p.m. EST on Feb. 12 to show how its product works. The web cast can be accessed at www.planalytics.com/energy. Indianapolis, IN-based Citizens Gas & Coke Utility provides energy services to more than 262,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers in Marion County, IN.

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