This session will look at the DSO’s activities promoting, developing and facilitating the maintenance and expansion of the market for natural gas. Key topics to explore will be the i) DSO-customer interaction for maintaining existing customers and encouraging new attachments; ii) new technologies and techniques for expanding the infrastructure and attaching new customers; and iii) strategies for expanding the availability of natural gas “beyond the mains” to isolated areas or orphaned industrial or power plants.
Papers should focus on successes and lessons learned. Panel discussions of interacting topics with gas industry (and other underground utility) representatives and contractors /manufacturers /vendors may also be assembled.