Natural Gas Distribution
Chesapeake’s core business is natural gas distribution and transmission. Including the merger with Florida Public Utilities (FPU) which was effective in October of 2009, Chesapeake is proud to serve over 117,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in high growth areas of Delaware, Maryland and Florida. The Company’s Delaware and Maryland natural gas distribution operation is known as “Chesapeake Utilities,” and its Florida natural gas distribution operations are known as “Central Florida Gas” and “Florida Public Utilities.”
Chesapeake Utilities (chpkgas.com) serves customers in southern New Castle, Kent and Sussex Counties in Delaware and the Eastern Shore of Maryland, with the exception of one municipal system. Central Florida Gas (cfgas.com) headquartered in Winter Haven, Florida, serves residential, commercial and industrial customers in five Florida counties, and industrial customers in another nine counties, for a total of 14 counties. Florida Public Utilities (fpuc.com) headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida serves residential, commercial and transportation natural gas distribution customers, serving seven counties in Florida.
Natural Gas Transmission
The Company's natural gas transmission subsidiary, Eastern Shore Natural Gas, receives natural gas at two pipeline interconnections in southeastern Pennsylvania and one in northern Delaware. The pipeline transports and delivers natural gas to the Company's Delaware and Maryland divisions, as well as four additional non-affiliated local distribution companies, three electric generation customers and 12 industrial customers located in Delaware, the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Pennsylvania. Below the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company owns and operates the only transmission pipeline.
