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Unitil Profile
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 2005
• Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company Sells Unsecured Long-Term Notes
• Unitil Electric Rates in Massachusetts to Change January 1
November 2005
• Unitil Requests Increase in Electric Distribution Rates
October 2005
• Unitil Reports Third Quarter Earnings
• Unitil Files Basic Service Electric Rate Increase
• Unitil Electricity Supply Rates to Increase for Large Business Customers
September 2005
• Unitil Declares Common Stock Dividend
• Unitil Files Changes to Natural Gas Rates
• NHPUC Approves Unitil Post-Transition Power Supply Settlement
August 2005
• Unitil Community Grant Goes to Mediation Services of North Central Massachusetts
• Unitil Files Electric Rate Adjustment for its MA Customers
July 2005
• Unitil Reports Second Quarter Earnings
June 2005
• Unitil Declares Common Stock Dividend
• Usource and NH BIA Create Competitive Energy Partnership
May 2005
• Unitil and Bargaining Units Agree on New Five Year Contracts
• Unitil Upgrades Web to Help Customers Understand Energy Use and Costs
April 2005
• Unitil Reports First Quarter Earnings
• Unitil - Massachusetts Seeks Applications for 2005 Community Grant
• Unitil Basic Service Electric Rates Change
• Unitil Shareholders Elect Directors
• Unitil Files May 2006 Post-Transition Power Supply Proposal
March 2005
• Unitil Declares Common Stock Dividend
• Unitil Files Proposed May 1 Rates
• Unitil Massachusetts Files Gas Rate Decrease
• Unitil-Massachusetts reports strong Service Quality Performance for 2004
February 2005
• Unitil Reports Year-End Earnings
• Standard Offer Service Ends March 1
January 2005
• Unitil's MA Default Rates Decline for Medium/Large Business Customers
• Unitil Declares Common Stock Dividend
• Unitil's New Hampshire Customers Receive Rate Decrease
