Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc. () is an investor-owned utility based in

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, Nevada, United States. The company provides

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service to over 2 million residential, commercial, and industrial customers in parts of

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, and

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. At the end of 2021, Southwest had 1.15 million customers located in Arizona, 0.8 million in Nevada, and 0.2 million in California.

History

The company was founded in

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, in 1931, and soon expanded to the nearby town of

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. Natural gas was brought into southern Nevada in 1953, and Southwest Gas began service to the burgeoning communities of

and

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the following year. On January 24, 1956, Southwest Gas Corporation became a publicly owned company. Expansion into Arizona occurred in 1957 with the acquisition of Natural Gas Service of Arizona. In 1963, with the completion of a 250-mile pipeline in northern Nevada, the company was able to grow once again by extending its service territory to include

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. Several years later it began serving customers as far west as Elko in the northern part of the state. Expansion also occurred during this time in California with expansion from its

operations to Big Bear. During the next several decades the company made several more acquisitions and expanded in parts of its tri-state service territory. In 1979, the purchase of the gas system of what is now

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, and the 1984 purchase of the gas system of

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, added the Phoenix area to the company's customer base. During a time of unprecedented growth in the desert Southwest, Southwest Gas was serving some of the fastest-growing areas in the country. In 2005, the company acquired service territory in

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from

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, enabling it to serve customers contiguously around

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in California and Nevada. The company is the largest distributor of natural gas in Arizona and Nevada.

References

External links

Southwest Gas website

Southwest Gas Living
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