PNY Piedmont Natural Gas Company, Inc.

Piedmont receives award given annually for clean transportation and fuel activities CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Piedmont Natural Gas (NYSE:PNY) has been awarded the 2008 Clean Cities Award, given annually by the Centralina Clean Fuels Coalition (CCFC) to the business or organization that "best demonstrates excellence in clean transportation and fuel activities." The CCFC is one of nearly 90 Clean City Coalitions participating in the Department of Energy's (DOE) Clean Cities Program. The award was presented to Piedmont at the Annual Board meeting of the Centralina Council of Governments held last night in Charlotte. In presenting the award to Piedmont Natural Gas, the Coalition noted several of the Company's ongoing initiatives to reduce its overall carbon footprint and improve local air quality. Those initiatives included Piedmont's "no idle" policy for its entire fleet of utility service and distribution vehicles as well as various employee programs around carpooling to work, walking to lunch instead of driving during the ozone season, and refueling vehicles after 6:00 p.m. to reduce VOC (volatile organic compound) emissions. In addition, this past year Piedmont acquired two natural gas forklifts for use in its Distribution Center replacing units that used propane or gasoline. Piedmont also maintains several vehicles in its service and distribution fleet that run on natural gas. Mr. Michael Yount, Senior Vice President for Utility Operations for Piedmont commented on the award, "We're certainly very pleased to receive this award from the Centralina Clean Fuels Coalition. This really is a tribute to the creativity and hard work of so many of our teammates at Piedmont who have embraced the notion of improving our local air quality and reducing our carbon footprint." About Piedmont Natural Gas Piedmont Natural Gas is an energy services company primarily engaged in the distribution of natural gas to more than one million residential, commercial and industrial utility customers in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, including 62,000 customers served by municipalities who are wholesale customers. Our subsidiaries are invested in joint venture, energy-related businesses, including unregulated retail natural gas marketing, interstate natural gas storage and intrastate natural gas transportation. More information about Piedmont Natural Gas is available on the Internet at http://www.piedmontng.com/. About Centralina Clean Fuels Coalition The Centralina Clean Fuels Coalition (CCFC), has been in existence in the Greater Charlotte Region for over 10 years and was designated in April of 2004 in the Department of Energy's Clean Cities program. The Coalition is a local effort of the Centralina Council of Governments, a state designated regional planning agency in North Carolina comprising Anson, Cabarrus, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Stanly, and Union counties. DATASOURCE: Piedmont Natural Gas CONTACT: David L. Trusty of Piedmont Natural Gas, +1-704-731-4391 (O), +1-704-507-6393 (C), Web site: http://www.piedmontng.com/

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