Revenue

6 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2020

Revenue from Contract with Customer [Abstract]

Our revenue recognition policy is fully described in Note 2 to the financial statements in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2019. The following tables disaggregate our revenue from contracts with customers by customer type and segment and provide a reconciliation to total operating revenues, including intersegment revenues, for the three and six months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019.



	Three Months Ended March 31, 2020					Three Months Ended March 31, 2019
	Distribution		Pipeline and Storage			Distribution			Pipeline and Storage
	(In thousands)
Gas sales revenues:
Residential	$	596,315	$	—		$	695,827		$	—
Commercial	230,779		—			278,945			—
Industrial	25,628		—			35,887			—
Public authority and other	14,662		—			17,087			—
Total gas sales revenues	867,384		—			1,027,746			—
Transportation revenues	28,504		154,748			27,682			142,270
Miscellaneous revenues	6,986		1,335			7,364			2,773
Revenues from contracts with customers	902,874		156,083			1,062,792			145,043
Alternative revenue program revenues⁽¹⁾	29,638		(9,846		)	(5,397		)	(9,393		)
Other revenues	493		—			494			—
Total operating revenues	$	933,005	$	146,237		$	1,057,889		$	135,650



	Six Months Ended March 31, 2020					Six Months Ended March 31, 2019
	Distribution		Pipeline and Storage			Distribution			Pipeline and Storage
	(In thousands)
Gas sales revenues:
Residential	$	1,148,391	$	—		$	1,243,755		$	—
Commercial	442,093		—			497,883			—
Industrial	50,553		—			70,424			—
Public authority and other	27,684		—			30,372			—
Total gas sales revenues	1,668,721		—			1,842,434			—
Transportation revenues	55,144		306,758			53,082			289,694
Miscellaneous revenues	13,772		6,490			14,314			4,455
Revenues from contracts with customers	1,737,637		313,248			1,909,830			294,149
Alternative revenue program revenues⁽¹⁾	22,887		(18,835		)	(14,136		)	(24,029		)
Other revenues	985		—			1,030			—
Total operating revenues	$	1,761,509	$	294,413		$	1,896,724		$	270,120

(1)

In our distribution segment, we have weather-normalization adjustment mechanisms that serve to minimize the effects of weather on our revenue. Additionally, APT has a regulatory mechanism that requires that we share with its tariffed customers 75% of the difference between the total non-tariffed revenues earned during a test period and a revenue benchmark.