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Alaska’s largest natural gas utility being sold for $800M – KTAR.com
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The proprietor of the most important pure gasoline utility in Alaska stated it’s promoting the corporate to Canada-based TriSummit Utilities Inc. for $800 million.
AltaGas Ltd. introduced Thursday that the sale contains Anchorage-based ENSTAR Pure Fuel, related pipelines and ENSTAR’s majority possession in a gasoline storage facility, the Anchorage Each day Information reported. AltaGas, additionally based mostly in Canada, acquired Enstar in 2012.
TriSummit has about 133,000 clients in Canada. ENSTAR, which has about 150,000 clients in Anchorage and elements of south-central Alaska, has had about 1% annual development in clients lately, AltaGas has reported.
AltaGas stated the sale, partly, will enable the corporate to scale back debt and make “greater development investments” in different operations, the corporate’s president, Randy Crawford, stated in a press release.
The sale is topic to regulatory approval. The businesses anticipate it to shut by early subsequent yr.
TriSummit in a press release stated it plans to “retain all of ENSTAR’s devoted workers and rent new Alaska workers to carry out sure features at present carried out out of state.” ENSTAR Pure Fuel has about 200 workers.
TriSummit President and CEO Jared Inexperienced as soon as ran ENSTAR.
“Our prime precedence is guaranteeing a clean transition, sustaining the sturdy relationships ENSTAR has in its communities, and to totally help ENSTAR as they proceed to offer clients with secure, dependable and inexpensive service,” Inexperienced stated within the assertion.
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