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NoTEWoRThiES Promotions | Honors | new Hires AGL Resources has promoted Mark Meeker to managing director, business development; Laura Wilkinson has been named managing director, enterprise marketing communications. Ameren Corp. Executive Chairman Gary L. Rainwater plans to retire from Ameren at the annual shareholders meeting scheduled for April 27; he has requested that the board not nominate him for membership on the Ameren board at that meeting. Rainwater, who has served Ameren and its subsidiaries in various roles for more than 30 years, has been executive chairman of the board since May 2009, when Thomas R. Voss succeeded him as president and CEO. Recently, the Missouri Society of Professional Engineers ogy Institute as a senior institute engineer. He will lead GTI’s research, testing, development and deployment of plastic pipe, fittings and other products. Larry L. Weyers, executive chairman of Integrys Energy Group Inc., retired on March 31 after 25 years with the company. Weyers became president and CEO of WPS Resources Corp. in 1997 (WPS Resources changed its name to Integrys after Murry Gerber the Peoples Energy Corp. merger in 2007) following 17 months serving as president and COO. Weyers saw the company grow from approximately $775 million in revenues in 1997 to more than $14 billion in 2008 and the utility customer base increase from about 600,000 to more than 2 million. Charles A. Schrock succeeds Weyers as president and CEO of Integrys, and named Voss, a professional he assumed the additional role of David Porges engineer with 40 years’ experichairman, effective April 1. ence, Engineer of the Year, the Jimmy D. Staton, EVP and group organization’s highest honor. CEO of NiSource Inc.’s Gas DistribuMurry S. Gerber, EQT Corp. tion business, has assumed the added CEO and chairman of the board of responsibility of leading the NiSource directors, will step aside from his Indiana utilities, including Northern duties as CEO following the comIndiana Public Service Co. (NIPSCO). pany’s annual meeting on April Dennis R. Wraase, former chair21. David L. Porges, currently EQT man and CEO as well as president and president and COO, will take over COO of Pepco Holdings Inc., has been as CEO. To ensure a smooth transielected a trustee to Northeast Utilities’ Jimmy Staton tion, Gerber will remain with the board of trustees. company as executive chairman Christopher P. Johns, president through its next annual meeting of Pacific Gas and Electric Co., the utility unit in April 2011. of PG&E Corp., has been elected to the utility’s Ernest Lever has joined the Gas Technolboard of directors. A.Y McDonald is the #1 Name in . Natural Gas Distribution Products not just because we sell the most, but because we do so much! Because we have the products you need, when you need them. Whether it’s a swivel or a meter bar, we have it in stock and we can ship it the same day. It’s just one of the ways that we do things better, and one of the reasons we’re #1. G A S VA LV E S | W AT E R W O R K S | P L U M B I N G VA LV E S PUMPS 800.292.2737 | FAX 800.832.9296 | sales@aymcdonald.com | www.aymcdonald.com april 2010 AmericAn GAs http://www.aymcdonald.com http://www.aymcdonald.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of American Gas - April 2010

American Gas - April 2010
Contents
President’s Message Energy Secretary Chu: A Stand-up Guy
Industry News
Safety First PHMSA Publishes Final CRM Rule
Tech Talk Talking Technology
Full Speed Ahead
NGVs: A View from the Motor City
The Secret to Customer Satisfaction
If the Founding Fathers Operated a Natural Gas Utility…
Places to Be
Marketplace
Advertisers’ Index
Noteworthies
Jobline
Facts on Gas

American Gas - April 2010