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Richard M. Morrow is vice president of customer services-major markets for San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) and Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas), Sempra Energy’s California regulated utilities. Sempra Energy is a San Diego-based Fortune 500 energy services holding company whose subsidiaries provide electricity, natural gas and value-added products and services.
SDG&E is a regulated public utility that provides service to 3.3 million consumers through 1.3 million electric meters and more than 800,000 gas meters in San Diego and southern Orange counties.
SoCalGas is the nation’s largest natural gas distribution utility serving 19.5 million consumers through 5.5 million gas meters.
In his current position, Morrow is responsible for the utilities’ largest customers, including electric generators, wholesalers and large commercial and industrial customers, including the natural gas vehicle market. In aggregate, these customers account for approximately 65 percent of total system gas deliveries on the combined utility systems and 38 percent of the electric load on the SDG&E system. He is also responsible for managing the companies’ pipeline and storage capacity products, energy efficiency programs and services for commercial and industrial customers, energy-services provider relations and technology development.
Previously, Morrow was vice president of customer services and marketing in the energy transportation services business unit of SoCalGas.
Morrow began his career with SoCalGas in 1974 as an engineer and has held various positions in engineering, gas supply planning and acquisition, transmission and storage, distribution and customer operations, and marketing.
Morrow is immediate past chair of the American Gas Cooling Center and CALSTART. He is on the executive board at the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation and is on the board of directors for the Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition.
Morrow holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from California State Polytechnic University and a master’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of California at Davis. He is a registered petroleum engineer.
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