The Gas Company Names Greg Toth Vice President of Marketing

HONOLULU--The Gas Company (TGC), Hawaii’s clean gas energy provider, named Greg Toth vice president of marketing. Toth is responsible for the company’s marketing and branding as renewable energy solutions are introduced to move Hawaii away from petroleum based energy sources. The Gas Company serves more than 68,000 residential and commercial customers statewide.

“We are introducing new ways to use clean efficient gas energy and Greg will help us make certain that the people of Hawaii can benefit from our technology.”

Toth brings deep knowledge and experience in advertising and marketing within the energy sector. Most recently, he served as director of consumer products and energy efficiency at FirstEnergy Corp., the fifth-largest utility in the United States. In that position, he was responsible for the creation, execution, and management of FirstEnergy’s business strategy for consumer products and services, residential programs, new business development, partner relations, advertising, promotions, and customer satisfaction.

“Greg is a welcome addition to our team,�?? said Jeffrey M. Kissel, President and CEO of The Gas Company. “We are introducing new ways to use clean efficient gas energy and Greg will help us make certain that the people of Hawaii can benefit from our technology.�??

Toth received a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from the University of Findlay in Ohio.

The Gas Company has been in business since 1904 and has a workforce of 300 professionals. It provides clean, reliable and energy-efficient gas to residential, business and government customers throughout the state of Hawaii — Oahu, Maui, Hawaii, Kauai, Molokai and Lanai. The Company owns and operates the only SNG manufacturing plant of its kind in the United States. The plant uses a catalytic process to convert the byproducts of petroleum refining into methane (chemically identical to natural gas) and hydrogen for distribution to its customers in metropolitan Honolulu. It supplies SNG through a 1,100-mile pipeline network, and supplies propane gas (LPG) statewide. TGC is developing technology to further reduce its carbon footprint by incorporating domestically produced, renewable alternatives to petroleum for gas supply in Hawaii.

The Gas Company LLC (www.hawaiigas.com) is a Hawaii-based, wholly owned subsidiary of Macquarie Infrastructure Company  (www.macquarie.com/mic). MIC owns, operates, and invests in a diversified group of infrastructure businesses that provide basic services to customers across the United States.

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