Piedmont Natural Gas Announces Plans to Provide Natural Gas Delivery Service to Duke Energy's W.S. Lee Power Generation Facility in Anderson, South Carolina

CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Piedmont Natural Gas (NYSE: PNY) today announced an agreement with Duke Energy to provide natural gas delivery service to the electric utility's W.S. Lee power generation facility near Anderson, South Carolina.

Piedmont plans to construct approximately 1.5 miles of new natural gas transmission pipeline and compression facilities to provide natural gas delivery service to the plant by May, 2017.  Piedmont's investment in the pipeline and compression facilities is estimated at $38 million and is supported by a long-term service agreement with Duke Energy.  The agreement is subject to approval by the South Carolina Public Service Commission.

Piedmont Natural Gas Chairman, President, and CEO Thomas E. Skains commented on the agreement, "We are excited about this additional opportunity to work with Duke Energy to build new infrastructure to deliver clean and efficient natural gas to the W.S. Lee facility.  We believe this project will benefit both the environment and energy consumers in South Carolina."

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About Piedmont Natural Gas

Piedmont Natural Gas is an energy services company primarily engaged in the distribution of natural gas to more than one million residential, commercial, industrial and power generation utility customers in portions of North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, including customers served by municipalities who are wholesale customers. Our subsidiaries are invested in joint venture, energy-related businesses, including unregulated retail natural gas marketing, and regulated interstate natural gas transportation and storage, and regulated intrastate natural gas transportation businesses. More information about Piedmont Natural Gas is available on the Internet at http://www.piedmontng.com/.

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