NrG Highway

First released in June 1995, NrG Highway allows customers to nominate, manage contracts, and access up-to-date operational information through the following modules:

• Nominations
• Contracts
• Application for Service
• Reporting
• Bulletins
• Marketplace
• Directory
• Company Administration
• Notifications
• User Preferences
• Pipeline Administration modules.

NrG is encouraging our customer base to use the NrG Web Highway service. Specific functionality and business requirements are being revisited and validated with our user community prior to a final transition to NrG Web Highway. We will eventually be retiring NrG Highway (V2.0). The information-only modules, publicly available on our Informational Postings Service, NrG Expressway, continue to supplement modules on NrG Web Highway.

NrG Web Highway is an electronic tool for natural gas pipeline shippers to conduct their Nominations business through pipeline-specific interfaces. Representing our "next generation" of services, NrG Web Highway will eventually replace our premier service, NrG Highway. Developed using Web technologies, it is designed for use with the Netscape Communicator or Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers, version 4.0 or later.

Currently available to customers through pipeline sponsorship, this service was first made available via the public internet in March 2000. Users need to obtain User IDs and Passwords through pipeline sponsorship in order to transact business on NrG Web Highway.

NrG Web Highway is leading NrG's transition to Web-based technologies in compliance with FERC rulings. Pipelines participate in NrG Web Highway through the Nominations, Waivers, Up/Down Contracts, Notifications, Notice Preferences, Reporting, Capacity Wanted, Company Administration, Notice Administration, and Faciltities Administration modules.

Today, customers using NrG Web Highway can supplement the available modules by accessing the Notices, Capacity, and Tariff modules on our Informational Postings site, NrG Expressway at www.nrgexpressway.com.

The Recommended System Requirements for NrG Web Highway are:

• Windows 95/98 or Windows NT 4.0/2000
• Pentium II 233 CPU
• 64MB of RAM for Windows 95/98, and 80MB of RAM for Windows NT 4.0
• 56K modem (WAN connection recommended)
• Netscape Communicator or Microsoft Internet Explorer, version 4.0 minimum
• TCP/IP stack (plus dialer if access is via the NrG modem pool)
• 1024 X 768 display resolution
• Java Plug-in - available through the application