The City of Warsaw Board of Public Works and Safety has issued a request-for-proposal for natural gas to service its 21-meter locations. Realgy Energy Service, a wholesaler or third party supplier in the NIPSCO Choice program, responded with a proposal that showed savings compared to the current supplier which showed an estimated savings $10,000 to 15,000 for the last year.

“We are thrilled to be able to offer Warsaw a true savings program.” said Michael Vrtis, president of Realgy Energy Services. “We submitted our analysis and agreement that substantiated the estimated annual savings Warsaw can expect to receive from purchasing their natural gas directly from a supplier without any NIPSCO Gas markup, which will provide significant cost reductions.”

The NIPSCO Choice program was initiated by NIPSCO as an opportunity for customers to purchase their natural gas supply directly. NIPSCO is currently the only utility in Indiana offering customer choice to all levels of customers; from residential to industrial.

Warsaw Clerk-Treasurer Lynne Christiansen was given the approval, with a stipulation, to drop the city’s current natural gas supplier, IGS Energy, formerly Border Energy, and sign a two-year contract with Realgy Energy. A study showed Warsaw has been paying IGS more than what NIPSCO would charge and a switch would save Warsaw an estimated $10,000 to $15,000 a year on gas costs. There is no cost to sign the contract with Realgy.

Lew Roberts of Go West, Realgy’s representative, recognizes the challenges faced by cities and municipalities in Indiana. “We approached Warsaw with a Managed Price program.”

Roberts explained; “having over 10 years of service in the NIPSCO Choice program we were able to show consistent performance and real savings compared to NIPSCO and even more compared to IGS Energy.” Roberts continued; “Working with Warsaw Mayor Joe Thallemer and the board members, together they quickly understood they were overpaying with their current energy marketer and appreciated the new approach.”

Realgy Energy Services is an energy marketing serving retail customers in Indiana, Illinois and Michigan. They have been serving Indiana customers since April 2003; since that time they have a perfect record (certified A+) with the Better Business Bureau; http://ct.bbb.org and no complaints before the IURC http://www.in.gov/iurc or OUCC http://www.in.gov/oucc/