Pacific Northwest Gas Utility Blazes New Path
Richard Reiten, Chairman and CEO of Northwest Natural Gas
How has the gas utility industry changed during your tenure as head of Northwest Natural?
The trends are clear. When I arrived six years ago, we as a company benchmarked 34 gas distribution utilities as comparable companies in most respects to Northwest Natural Gas. Today, we're benchmarking only 14. The convergence issues of gas and electric are important. That's a real issue of how to manage the clear trend toward combination companies.