& p 500 component dow jones utility average component industry public utility founded 1912 headquarters merrillville indiana united states key people joseph hamrock ceo products natural gas electricity number of employees 7000 website www.nisource.com nisource inc. nyse ni is one of the largest fully regulated utility companies in the united states serving approximately 3.5 million natural gas customers and 500 000 electric customers across seven states through its local columbia gas and nipsco brands . the company based in merrillville indiana united states has more than 7 000 employees . contents 1 company operations 1.1 internal organization 2 recent corporate actions 3 criticism 4 references 5 external links company operations edit nisource s natural gas utilities provide domestically produced supplies of natural gas to residential commercial and industrial customers via nearly 60 000 miles of pipeline and related facilities in seven states indiana kentucky maryland massachusetts ohio pennsylvania and virginia . nisource provides electric energy to nearly 500 000 customers all located in northern indiana . nisource s electric operations include power generation transmission and local distribution as well as wholesale and electric transmission transactions . nisource uses both traditional and renewable generation sources including natural gas hydroelectric wind and coal generated supplies providing a total system operating net capability of more than 3 000 megawatts . in 2015 nisource was named to the dow jones sustainability north america index for the second year in a row and for the ninth time since 1999 . 1 internal organization edit nisource operates seven local utilities in its service region . northern indiana public service co. nipsco columbia gas of massachusetts previously bay state gas columbia gas of ohio columbia gas of kentucky columbia gas of pennsylvania columbia gas of maryland columbia gas of virginia recent corporate actions edit on july 1 2015 nisource separated columbia pipeline group nyse cpgx into a stand alone publicly traded company . each nisource shareholder at the time of the separation received one share of columbia pipeline group for each share of nisource . the separation of columbia pipeline group included columbia gas transmission columbia gulf transmission columbia midstream group its ownership in columbia pipeline partners nyse cppl and other natural gas pipeline storage and midstream holdings . 2 criticism edit in december 2011 the non partisan organization public campaign criticized nisource for spending 1.83 million on lobbying and not paying any taxes during 2008 2010 instead getting 227 million in tax rebates despite making a profit of 1.4 billion and increasing executive pay by 33 % to 11.2 million in 2010 for its top 5 executives . 3 one rule nisource among other companies benefitted from was a bonus depreciation rule that lowered the federal tax expense . nisource stated this law enacted by congress encouraged companies like nisource to accelerate capital investments to spur economic recovery by permitting portions of these investments to be deducted at an accelerated rate . only the timing of the deductions was changed and not the amount that could be deducted . this means our income tax expense will likely be higher in the future . 4 references edit benman keith 16 september 2015 nisource named again to dow sustainability index the times of northwest indiana retrieved 21 september 2015 . tincher sarah 2 july 2015 columbia pipeline group completes spin off from nisource the state journal retrieved 2 september 2015 . portero ashley . 30 major u.s. corporations paid more to lobby congress than income taxes 2008 2010 . international business times . archived from the original on 26 december 2011 . retrieved 26 december 2011 . tweh bowdeya 4 november 2011 report nisource among companies getting large tax breaks the times of northwest indiana retrieved 2 september 2015 . 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