Natural Gas Utilities and Their Customers Efficient' Naturally'

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Natural Gas Utilities and Their
CustomersEfficient. Naturally.

• Great Energy Efficiency Day
• Washington, DC
• March 4, 2009
• Paula A. Gant
• Vice President Regulatory Affairs

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Natural Gas Clean, Abundant, Efficient, Domestic
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Declining Use per Natural Gas Residential
Customer Since 1970
MCF per Year
Sources U.S. Energy Information Administration
and American Gas Association Note Data is
weather normalized or adjusted to reduce the
impact of abnormally warm or cold weather.
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Residential Natural GasAverage Consumption vs.
Average Number of Customers
Average Total Natural Gas Residential Consumption
Average Number of Households Served
Millions of Households
Bcf per year
Sources U.S. Energy Information Administration
and American Gas Association
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U.S. Natural Gas Customers Lead in Efficiency
Gains
Tg CO2 Emissions
Number of Households
Sources EIA, Gas Facts, EPA (Inventory of US
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Sinks 1990-2006)
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Natural Gas Utility Energy Efficiency Programs

• In the 2007 program year, gas utilities in the
  U.S. budgeted nearly 500 million for energy
  efficiency programs
• About a third (163 million) was budgeted for
  residential programs
• Program budgets have more than doubled since 2006

Source Nevius M, Krouk J, Griffith S, Lasky C,
Reaching Higher Annual Industry Report 2008,
Consortium for Energy Efficiency, 2008.
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Natural Gas Utility Energy Efficiency Programs

• Impacts of gas utility energy efficiency programs
  in 2007
• 218 million therms saved
• Nearly 1.3 million tons of CO2 prevented from
  being released into the atmosphere

Source Nevius M, Krouk J, Griffith S, Lasky C,
Reaching Higher Annual Industry Report 2008,
Consortium for Energy Efficiency, 2008.
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States with Decoupled Natural Gas Utility Rates
Approved revenue decoupling (16)
Pending revenue decoupling (5)
Source AGA, February 2009
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States with Natural Gas Energy Efficiency Programs
Allow earnings on energy efficiency
Source AGA, February 2009
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Paula A. Gant

• Vice President Regulatory Affairs
• pgant_at_aga.org
• www.aga.org

The American Gas Association, founded in 1918,
represents 202 local energy companies that
deliver clean natural gas throughout the United
States.  There are more than 70 million
residential, commercial and industrial natural
gas customers in the U.S., of which almost 93
percent more than 65 million customers
receive their gas from AGA members. Today,
natural gas meets almost one-fourth of the United
States' energy needs.