What is Fitchburg Gas & Electric?
Fitchburg Gas & Electric is a natural gas and electricity utility that serves customers in parts of northern Massachusetts. It is an operating unit of Unitil, a holding company that owns utilities in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. Overall, Unitil has about 106,000 customers for electricity and more than 83,000 customers for natural gas.
Fitchburg Gas & Electric serves communities around Fitchburg, including Lunenburg and Townsend. The company’s roots date to 1852, when Fitchburg Gas & Electric Company was created to provide gas for the gas streetlights in downtown Fitchburg. In 1992, Unitil and Fitchburg Gas & Electric merged.