Village Energy provides natural gas service to northern Ohio

Village Energy Cooperative, a non-profit, member-owned natural gas cooperative, was formed by a group of proactive residents who wanted to utilize natural gas within their community. Formed in 1998, Village Energy contracted Utility Pipeline, LTD (UPL) and began working together to provide residents in Lindsey and Hessville, located in Sandusky, Ohio, with natural gas.

Since that time, UPL has remained Village Energy’s primary contractor and has helped them expand within Ohio. In 1998, Village Energy, under the management of UPL, began construction on more than 70,000 feet of pipeline to bring natural gas service to the communities. Then, in 2005, Lake Mohawk was acquired by Utility Pipeline from Columbia Gas with the approval from the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) to bring natural gas to their demographic.

Currently, Village Energy supplies natural gas service to over 1,800 end users in Ohio. Some of the larger communities served are Lake Mohawk in Malvern as well as Lindsey, Hessville, Holiday Lake, located in Willard, Ohio, Ashtabula, and Trumbull county.

The operations of Village Energy Cooperative are managed by UPL and governed by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) and the Department of Transportation. Under the management of UPL, Village Energy Cooperative remains focused on maintaining and operating natural gas pipelines at the highest standards to provide safe, reliable service as inexpensively as possible.

Board of Directors 

Dusten Watson

Term Ends December 31, 2026

Dale Copley

Term Ends December 31, 2026