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Alabama Gas Corporation, known as Alagasco, was the largest natural gas utility in the north and central part of Alabama. It was headquartered in Birmingham and at its peak provided natural gas energy to 460,000 homes and businesses. In 2014, Energen Corporation sold Alagasco to The Laclede Group of St. Louis.
The Windsor Street gasholders pictured in 2009. The Windsor Street Gasworks was a coal gas and coke manufacturing site in Nechells, Birmingham.The works were constructed in 1846 for the Birmingham Gas Light and Coke Company adjacent to the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal to allow for the bulk import of coal.
Southern Nuclear - engineering and operations for nuclear power plants - Birmingham, Alabama (Southern Company is the majority owner and operator of the Farley, Hatch, and Vogtle nuclear power plants.) Southern Company Generation - fossil fuels and hydro operations - Birmingham, Alabama. Southern Power - wholesale power generation - Birmingham ...
The streets of Birmingham were lit by gas for the first time on 14 April 1819. The Birmingham Gas Light and Coke Company, formed by an Act of Parliament, obtained the business of Gosling in 1819. [1] The Gas Retort House was constructed in 1822 [2] where town gas was manufactured by heating coal in the absence of air. This operated until 1850.
Sonat, Inc., headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, was a large Fortune 500 American energy holding company. The company was founded in 1928 and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "SNT". Sonat was primarily involved in transmission and marketing natural gas and oil and gas exploration and
In 2014 Laclede acquired Alabama Gas Corporation (Alagasco), [8] which serves the Greater Birmingham, East Lauderdale County, Gadsden, Jasper, Anniston-Oxford, Greater Tuscaloosa, Greater Montgomery, Opelika-Auburn, Tuskegee, Selma, and many Black Belt communities as Spire Alabama Inc.
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In 1806 The Philips and Lee factory and a portion of Chapel Street in Salford, Lancashire were lit by gas, thought to be the first use of gas street lighting in the world. Josiah Pemberton, an inventor, had for some time been experimenting on the nature of gas. A resident of Birmingham, his attention may have been roused by the exhibition at Soho.