Revenue and Accounts Receivable (Table)

3 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2020

Revenue from Contract with Customer [Abstract]

Disaggregation of Revenue

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 months ended December 31, 2020 and 2019.

	Three Months Ended December 31, 2020				Three Months Ended December 31, 2019
	Distribution		Pipeline and Storage		Distribution		Pipeline and Storage
	(In thousands)
Gas sales revenues:
Residential	$	591,834	$	—	$	552,076	$	—
Commercial	208,947		—		211,314		—
Industrial	24,708		—		24,925		—
Public authority and other	13,062		—		13,022		—
Total gas sales revenues	838,551		—		801,337		—
Transportation revenues	27,767		164,761		26,640		152,010
Miscellaneous revenues	2,396		5,148		6,786		5,155
Revenues from contracts with customers	868,714		169,909		834,763		157,165
Alternative revenue program revenues(1)	7,441		(10,196)		(6,751)		(8,989)
Other revenues	495		—		492		—
Total operating revenues	$	876,650	$	159,713	$	828,504	$	148,176

(1)    In our distribution segment, we have weather-normalization adjustment mechanisms that serve to mitigate 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.

Allowance for Credit Loss Activity

A rollforward of our allowance for uncollectible accounts for the three months ended December 31, 2020 is presented in the table below. The allowance excludes the gas cost portion of customers’ bills for approximately 78 percent of our customers as we have the ability to collect these gas costs through our gas cost recovery mechanisms in most of our jurisdictions.

	Three Months Ended December 31, 2020
Beginning balance, September 30, 2020	$	29,949
Current period provisions	6,937
Write-offs charged against allowance	(2,288)
Recoveries of amounts previously written off	491
Ending balance, December 31, 2020	$	35,089