Dominion Retail Reports Customer Growth

Dominion Retail reported growth in its average customer count for the three months ending December 31, 2014, versus the three months ending September 30, 2014

Dominion Retail's average total customer count for the three months ended December 31, 2014 was 1.227 million customers, versus 1.196 million for the three months ended September 30, 2014, and 1.457 million for the year-ago quarter (all totals from prior quarters exclude any electric customers to provide an apples-to-apples comparison of the remaining businesses)

Dominion Retail's average natural gas customer count for the three months ended December 31, 2014 was 274,000 customers, versus 265,000 for the three months ended September 30, 2014, and 518,000 for the year-ago quarter.

The growth of 9,000 in average natural gas customer count from September 30, 2014 to December 31, 2014 is in contrast to the loss of 55,000 in average natural gas customer count from June 30, 2014 to September 30, 2014.

Dominion Retail's average products and services customer count for the three months ended December 31, 2014 was 953,000 customers, versus 931,000 for the three months ended September 30, 2014, and 938,000 for the year-ago quarter.

Dominion Retail natural gas volumes were 18,559 mmcf for the fourth quarter of 2014, versus 26,375 mmcf a year ago