NiSource, Inc. based in Merrillville, Indiana

Merrillville, Indiana

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, is a Fortune 500

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 company engaged in natural gas transmission, storage and distribution, as well as electric generation, transmission and distribution. NiSource operating companies deliver energy to 3.8 million customers located within the high-demand energy corridor stretching from the Gulf Coast through the Midwest to New England

New England

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NiSource companies include:

• NIPSCO, "Northern Indiana Public Service Company" (Indiana)
• Columbia Gas of Massachusetts (Previously Bay State Gas)
• Columbia Gas (Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia)
• Columbia Gas Transmission
  Columbia Gas Transmission
  Columbia Gas Transmission is a natural gas pipeline that gathers gas in the Gulf of Mexico and transports it to New York. It is owned by NiSource. Its FERC code is 21....
  
  
• Energy USA TPC
• NiSource Gas Transmission & Storage
  • A pipeline, compression and storage network spanning three states. Major customers include Washington Gas
    Washington Gas
    WGL Holdings, Inc. , is a public utility holding company located in the United States that serves customers in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia...
    
    , Columbia Gas of Virginia, the City of Charlottesville, Virginia
    Charlottesville, Virginia
    Charlottesville is an independent city geographically surrounded by but separate from Albemarle County in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States, and named after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the queen consort of King George III of the United Kingdom.The official population estimate for...
    
    , and Easton Utilities. Part of the gas distribution division. On January 16, 2008, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
    Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
    The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is the United States federal agency with jurisdiction over interstate electricity sales, wholesale electric rates, hydroelectric licensing, natural gas pricing, and oil pipeline rates...
    
    authorized an expansion of the network to serve markets in the Mid-Atlantic region. Scheduled to be completed in the second quarter of 2009.

External links

• NiSource homepage