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pipeline storage service with a maximum peak day delivery capability of 16,800 MMBTU per day. SIGECO's gas delivery
system includes 3,200 miles of distribution and transmission mains, all of which are located in Indiana.
VEDO has contracted for 11.8 BCF of natural gas delivery service with a maximum peak day delivery capability of 246,100
MMBTU per day. While the Company still has title to this delivery capability, it has released it to those retail gas marketers now
supplying VEDO’s customers with natural gas, and those suppliers are responsible for the demand charges. VEDO’s gas
delivery system includes 5,500 miles of distribution and transmission mains, all of which are located in Ohio.
Electric Utility Services
SIGECO's installed generating capacity as of December 31, 2013, was rated at 1,298 MW. SIGECO's coal-fired generating
facilities are the Brown Station with two units of 490 MW of combined capacity, located in Posey County approximately eight
miles east of Mt. Vernon, Indiana; the Culley Station with two units of 360 MW of combined capacity; and Warrick Unit 4 with
150 MW of capacity. Both the Culley and Warrick Stations are located in Warrick County near Yankeetown, Indiana. SIGECO's
gas-fired turbine peaking units are: two 80 MW gas turbines (Brown Unit 3 and Brown Unit 4) located at the Brown Station; two
Broadway Avenue Gas Turbines located in Evansville, Indiana with a combined capacity of 115 MW (Broadway Avenue Unit 1,
50 MW and Broadway Avenue Unit 2, 65 MW); and two Northeast Gas Turbines located northeast of Evansville in Vanderburgh
County, Indiana with a combined capacity of 20 MW. The Brown Unit 3 and Broadway Avenue Unit 2 turbines are also equipped
to burn oil. Total capacity of SIGECO's six gas turbines is 295 MW, and they are generally used only for reserve, peaking, or
emergency purposes due to the higher per unit cost of generation. In 2009, SIGECO, with IURC approval, purchased a landfill
gas electric generation project in Pike County, Indiana with a total capability of 3 MW.
SIGECO's transmission system consists of 1,022 circuit miles of 345Kv, 138Kv and 69Kv lines. The transmission system also
includes 36 substations with an installed capacity of 4,833 megavolt amperes (Mva). The electric distribution system includes
4,339 pole miles of lower voltage overhead lines and 390 trench miles of conduit containing 2,042 miles of underground
distribution cable. The distribution system also includes 95 distribution substations with an installed capacity of 2,986 Mva and
52,200 distribution transformers with an installed capacity of 2,318 Mva.
SIGECO owns utility property outside of Indiana approximating 24 miles of 138Kv and 345Kv electric transmission lines, which
are included in the 1,022 circuit miles discussed above. These assets are located in Kentucky and interconnect with Louisville
Gas and Electric Company's transmission system at Cloverport, Kentucky and with Big Rivers Electric Cooperative at Sebree,
Kentucky.
Nonutility and Other Properties
Subsidiaries other than the utility operations and Vectren Affiliated Utilities, Inc. have no significant properties other than the
ownership of coal mining property in Indiana which is identified in Item 1.
Vectren Affiliated Utilities, Inc. owns and operates one active gas storage field located in Indiana covering 2,900 acres of land
with an estimated ready delivery from storage capability of 0.8 BCF of gas with maximum peak day delivery capability of 8,000
MCF per day. In addition to the storage field, a compressor station with two 1,500 hp compressors is capable of moving gas
from storage to one of two pipeline suppliers in the area, or compress unidirectionally from one pipeline supplier to the other
pipeline supplier.
Property Serving as Collateral
SIGECO's properties are subject to the lien of the First Mortgage Indenture dated as of April 1, 1932, between SIGECO and
Bankers Trust Company, as Trustee, and Deutsche Bank, as successor Trustee, as supplemented by various supplemental
indentures.