THE COMPANY
UGI is a holding company that, through subsidiaries and affiliates, distributes, stores, transports and markets energy products and related services. In the United States, we own and operate (1) a retail propane marketing and distribution business, (2) natural gas and electric distribution utilities, and (3) energy marketing, midstream infrastructure, storage, natural gas gathering and processing, natural gas production, electricity generation and energy services businesses. In Europe, we market and distribute liquefied petroleum gas (“LPG”) and other energy products and services. Our subsidiaries and affiliates operate principally in the following four business segments:
The AmeriGas Propane segment consists of the propane distribution business of AmeriGas Partners, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership and an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of UGI (the “Partnership”). In addition to distributing propane, the Partnership also sells, installs, and services propane appliances, including heating systems. The Partnership conducts its propane distribution business through its principal operating subsidiary, AmeriGas Propane, L.P., and is the nation’s largest retail propane distributor. The general partner of AmeriGas Partners is our wholly owned subsidiary, AmeriGas Propane, Inc. Following completion of the merger of AmeriGas Propane Holdings, LLC with and into the Partnership on August 21, 2019, the Partnership is an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of UGI.
The UGI International segment consists of LPG distribution businesses conducted by our subsidiaries and affiliates in France, Poland, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland, Romania, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, Italy, Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. In addition, UGI International conducts an energy marketing business in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Based on Fiscal 2020 volumes, UGI International believes that it is the largest distributor of LPG in France, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg and Norway and one of the largest distributors of LPG in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Netherlands and Sweden.
The Midstream & Marketing segment consists of energy-related businesses conducted by our indirect, wholly owned subsidiary, UGI Energy Services, LLC (“Energy Services”). These businesses (i) conduct energy marketing, including renewable natural gas, in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and California, (ii) own and operate natural gas liquefaction, storage and vaporization facilities and propane-air mixing assets, (iii) manage natural gas pipeline and storage contracts, (iv) develop, own and operate pipelines, gathering infrastructure and gas storage facilities in the Marcellus and Utica Shale regions of Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and the panhandle of West Virginia, and (v) own electricity generation facilities. Energy Services and its subsidiaries’ storage, liquefied natural gas and portions of its midstream transmission operations are subject to regulation by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”).
The UGI Utilities segment consists of the regulated natural gas and electric distribution businesses of our wholly owned subsidiary, UGI Utilities, Inc. (“UGI Utilities”). UGI Utilities’ regulated natural gas distribution business (“Gas Utility”) serves approximately 670,000 customers in eastern and central Pennsylvania and more than 500 customers in portions of one Maryland county. UGI Utilities’ regulated electric distribution utility (“Electric Utility”) serves more than 62,500 customers in portions of Luzerne and Wyoming counties in northeastern Pennsylvania. Gas Utility is subject to regulation by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (“PAPUC”) and FERC and, with respect to its customers in Maryland, the Maryland Public Service Commission. Electric Utility is subject to regulation by the PAPUC and FERC.
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