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Project 2024

Peoples Gas Business Risk Analysis

Research for Citizens Utility Board on Peoples Gas’s infrastructure spending and the risks facing customers and investors.

Maps of Chicago air-quality and health indicators and environmental justice indicators, with their original legends.Expand figure
Maps of Chicago air-quality and health indicators and environmental justice indicators, with their original legends.

Peoples Gas, Figures 3.11–3.12: Chicago air-quality/health (2020) and environmental justice (2023) indices. Maps sourced in the report to the City of Chicago.

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Peoples Gas, Figures 3.11–3.12: Chicago air-quality/health (2020) and environmental justice (2023) indices. Maps sourced in the report to the City of Chicago.

Groundwork Data worked with Citizens Utility Board to examine Peoples Gas’s System Modernization Program and the financial risks of continued investment in Chicago’s gas network.

Dorie Seavey was the primary author, with Michael Bloomberg as co-author. Conor Lyman provided modeling and analysis; Michael J. Walsh served as technical advisor. The work compared spending and customer-departure scenarios and reviewed the company’s strategy for responding to the energy transition.