VECTREN CORP 
By Vectren Corporation
P.O. Box 209
Evansville, IN 47702-0209
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 22, 2014
Contact: Chase Kelley, 812-491-4128 or kckelley@vectren.com
Brookville, Ohio - Vectren Energy Delivery of Ohio (Vectren) is spending $270,000 this year to relocate approximately 135 of Brookville's 390 remaining indoor meters to outdoor locations next to customer homes. The Brookville project is one of several gas infrastructure improvements being made during Vectren's multi- year plan to modernize its gas infrastructure throughout Ohio. The work is set to get underway in the coming days as direct customer notification is in process.
A common practice of the utility industry was to install indoor gas meters because older-style meters were more stable in a temperature-controlled environment. Today's gas meters have the same accuracy rate whether installed outdoors or indoors. Locating the meters outdoors enables meter readings as well as maintenance and/or repair work to be completed without accessing the customer's property and reduces the immediate danger if a gas leak were to occur.
"One benefit of relocating gas meters to the outside of homes is accurate meter reading and billing. It also greatly diminishes inconveniences to customers who currently must grant access to meter readers," said Colleen Ryan, president of Vectren Energy Delivery of Ohio.
Ritter Plumbing and Pipeline, a Vectren contractor, is performing the work, and those customers who are affected will receive a notification letter with information on how to contact Ritter Plumbing and Pipeline to schedule an appointment to have their meter moved. This project will likely continue until the end of the year.
Vectren plans to relocate all of the city's indoor meters by 2017.
Vectren Corporation (NYSE: VVC) is an energy holding company headquartered in Evansville, Ind. Vectren's energy delivery subsidiaries provide gas and/or electricity to more than 1 million customers in adjoining
service territories that cover nearly two-thirds of Indiana and west central Ohio. Vectren's nonutility subsidiaries and affiliates currently offer energy-related products and services to customers throughout the
U.S. These include infrastructure services, energy services and coal mining. To learn more about Vectren,
visit www.vectren.com.
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