Pensacola Energy wraps up three-year project to replace century-old cast-iron gas pipes

A three-year and roughly $10 million project to replace century-old, cast-iron piping around downtown Pensacola is finished.

Pensacola Energy has been in the process of replacing just over 80 miles of cast-iron piping, which serves 3,537 residential and commercial customers. The cast-iron pipes, which began being installed in Pensacola in the late 1800s for gas lights, now have been totally replaced with a plastic pipe called polyethylene…read more