12/29/2025
UNBUNDLING OF SMALL-CUSTOMER GAS SERVICES: NEW CHALLENGES FOR STATE PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSIONS
Energy Law Journal, Volume 18, No. 1. 1997
Kenneth W. Costello
J. Rodney Lemon
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The evolution of competition in the U.S. natural gas industry has followed a predictable course. Wellhead deregulation stimulated pipeline restructuring, which in turn has provoked a debate over gas-service restructuring at the retail level. Over the last several years, almost all local gas distribution companies (LDCs) in the U.S. have established stand-alone transportation service allowing industrial customers to purchase gas supplies in the open market. By all accounts, service unbundling to large retail customers has achieved significant cost savings to these customers.