Two Canadian energy retailers soon will be served byAtlanta-based Utilipro Inc., provider of customer care solutions.Utilipro recently signed a letter of intent with Direct EnergyMarketing Limited (DEML), Canada’s largest independent gasmarketer, and Apollo Gas Inc. (AGI), a subsidiary of Apollo GasIncome Fund, to directly bill customers for gas and energy-relatedservices.
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Mobile Bay Expansion In Service
Phase I of Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line’s Mobile Bay Lateralexpansion went into operation last Saturday providing 350 MMcf/d ofcapacity from the Outer Continental Shelf to Station 82 and 214MMcf/d onshore from Station 82 to Transco’s mainline near Butler,AL. July 1 was the initially targeted in-service date.
Schlesinger Directory Shows Power Marketers Growing
The promise of retail energy marketing, but probably not thecurrent results, seems to be providing enough support to the gasand power marketing community that few have decided to exit thebusiness, according to the results of Benjamin Schlesinger andAssociates’ 12th edition of its Directory of Energy MarketingService Companies.
Bay State Provides Customer Choice Via the Web
Providing retail gas customers a choice of suppliers via theInternet is a distant hope of some visionaries in the gas industry,but pioneers at Bay State Gas already have made it happen. TheMassachusetts distributor has upgraded its interactive web site toallow customers to shop for suppliers competing in its supplierchoice pilot program and to provide an easy method for suppliers toenroll new customers and check their daily pooling requirements.The web site also offers customers the option of checking their gasusage, reviewing their bills, and buying additional products andservices.
NGC Emphasizing Generation Ability
Look for NGC to focus its efforts on growing the powergeneration segment of its energy store concept of providing gas,power and gas liquids, CEO Chuck Watson told reporters in HoustonMonday. “We are going to optimize and strategically grow our powergeneration assets. Greater than 50%, probably almost 75%, of ouravailable cash flow in this company over the next several yearswill be in power generation, either greenfield projects, merchantplants, or in possibly acquiring some of these plants that are spunoff from the utilities over the next several years.”