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Unitil Corporation (“Unitil”) is a public utility holding company headquartered in Hampton, New Hampshire. Unitil’s principal business is the local distribution of electricity and natural gas in the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine. Unitil is the parent company of three distribution utilities: (i) Unitil Energy Systems, Inc., which provides electric service in the southeastern seacoast and state capital regions of New Hampshire; (ii) Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company, which provides both electric and natural gas service in the greater Fitchburg area of north central Massachusetts; and (iii) Northern Utilities, Inc., which provides natural gas service in southeastern New Hampshire and portions of southern and central Maine. In addition, Unitil is the parent company of Granite State Gas Transmission, Inc., an interstate natural gas transmission pipeline in New Hampshire and Maine. Together, Unitil’s operating utilities serve approximately 100,300 electric customers and 69,300 natural gas customers. Unitil’s non-regulated business unit, Usource, also provides energy brokering and advisory services to large commercial and industrial customers in the northeastern United States.
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Press Releases
December 2002
• Unitil CFO to Retire
• Unitil/FG&E Files for 4.4% Electric Rate Decrease
• Unitil President to Retire
• Unitil/FG&E Distribution Rates Increase
• Unitil Subsidiaries Complete Merger and Implement New Rates
November 2002
• Unitil's Annual Report Receives National Awards
• Unitil Reports Third Quarter Earnings
October 2002
• Unitil/FG&E to Decrease Electric Default Service Rates
• Unitil's New Hampshire Companies file for Fuel and Purchased Power Rate Adjustment
September 2002
• Unitil Declares Common Stock Dividend
• Unitil's New Hampshire Restructuring Approved
• Unitil/FG&E Gas Supply Costs to Rise 4.1% This Winter
• Settlement Announced in Unitil Electric Restructuring Proceeding - Lowest Rates Before, Lowest Rates After
August 2002
• Unitil Reports Second Quarter Earnings
July 2002
• Unitil Added to Membership of Russell Indexes
June 2002
• Unitil Declares Common Stock Dividend
• Unitil Files Fuel Rate Change
May 2002
• Unitil named New Hampshire Business of the Year - Business Services
• Unitil/FG&E Files New Distribution Rates under Performance Base Regulation Plan
• Unitil/FG&E Celebrates a 150th Birthday
• Unitil Reports First Quarter Earnings
April 2002
• Unitil Announces New Corporate Tagline
• Unitil Shareholders Elect Directors
• Unitil/FG&E Files for Performance Based Rates
• Unitil Ends Equity Investment in Enermetrix
• Unitil Website Provides Enhanced Customer Tools
• Unitil/FG&E Revises Electric Default Service Rates
March 2002
• Unitil Declares Common Stock Dividend
• Unitil/FG&E Files for Gas Rates Decreases for Summer
February 2002
• Unitil Reports Year End Earnings
• Unitil Rate Decrease Approved by New Hampshire Commission
January 2002
• Unitil Files Electric Restructuring Proposal in New Hampshire
• Unitil Declares Common Stock Dividend
• Edward F. Godfrey Elected to Unitil Board of Directors
• Usource Sees Continued Growth of Retail Energy Markets in Northeast
• Usource Acquires DQE’s OnDemand and ValuSource Customers in Pennsylvania
