The Commission regulates fourteen natural gas utilities that provide retail gas service to Wyoming customers. These natural gas utilities range in size from relatively small companies serving only a couple hundred Wyoming customers to large, multi-state gas companies who have a Wyoming customer base of over 70,000 customers. The PSC has the following primary duties regarding the regulation of natural gas utilities:

- Hearing rate cases and approving rates and tariffs for the companies;

- Reviewing, analyzing and hearing gas utility applications to pass-on wholesale cost increases in the cost of natural gas;

- Reviewing integrated resource plans for large gas utilities;

- Granting certificates of public convenience and necessity for major facilities;

- Establishing accounting and depreciation procedures for utilities;

- Approving mergers, acquisitions and transactions between companies;

- Approving the issuance of securities and creation of liens by the utility; and

- Mediating consumer complaints regarding natural gas service issues.

Gas Utility Forms