Natural Gas

Natural Gas in Madison County is supplied through Entex and CenterPoint Energy. CenterPoint Energy Gas Services (CEGS) is a non-regulated gas marketing group, providing competitive gas services for commercial, industrial, and wholesale customers. The industrial and commercial retail group sells gas and related services at competitive prices to end-use customers.

Commercial/Industrial

CenterPoint Energy’s retail natural gas marketing unit serves commercial and industrial customers in Mississippi, offering a variety of natural gas management services for commercial, institutional, and industrial end users, including a number of Fortune 500 businesses. CEGS serves more than 6,000 retail accounts for most of the local distribution companies in the region.

The company’s supply management services include load forecasting, supply acquisition, daily swing volume management, invoice consolidation, storage asset management, firm and interruptible transportation administration, and forward price risk management through the use of derivatives. CEGS also manages pipeline transportation contracts on all of the region’s interstate pipeline systems.