Mr Borgard has spent more than 24 years in the energy industry. He has served as leader of the Integrys Gas Group since the company was formed in early 2007.

The gas group includes all of Integrys's regulated natural gas businesses, including operations, gas engineering, gas supply and customer relations.

Charlie Schrock, president and CEO of Integrys, said: "Larry has a unique blend of leadership experience and operational expertise that makes him the perfect person for this role. He is well known and respected across Integrys and within the electric and gas communities. We will be looking to him to bring a system-wide view of planning to our work and to best-practice systems and processes to our operations."

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