Energy West, Incorporated Announces Monthly Dividend of $0.045 per Share

GREAT FALLS, Mont., June 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Energy West,
Incorporated (Nasdaq: EWST), a natural gas utility and energy marketing
company, announced that its Board of Directors declared a monthly dividend of
$0.045 per share to shareholders of record as of June 17, 2009. The dividend
will be payable on July 2, 2009.

About Energy West

Energy West, Incorporated distributes and sells natural gas to end-use
residential, commercial, and industrial customers. It distributes
approximately 26 billion cubic feet of natural gas to approximately 37,000
customers through regulated utilities operating in Montana, Wyoming, North
Carolina and Maine. The company markets approximately 2.3 billion cubic feet
of natural gas to commercial and industrial customers in Montana and Wyoming
on an unregulated basis. The company also has a majority ownership interest in
160 natural gas producing wells and gas gathering assets. In addition, the
company owns the Shoshone interstate and the Glacier gathering pipelines
located in Montana and Wyoming. The company's Montana public utility was
originally incorporated in 1909 and is headquartered in Great Falls, Montana.

Safe Harbor Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

The company is including the following cautionary statement in this release to
make applicable and to take advantage of the safe harbor provisions of the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 for any forward-looking
statements made by, or on behalf of, Energy West. Forward-looking statements
are all statements other than statements of historical fact, including,
without limitation, those that are identified by the use of the words
"anticipates," "estimates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "predicts,"
"believes" and similar expressions. Such statements are inherently subject to
a variety of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those expressed. Factors that may affect forward-looking
statements and the company's business generally include but are not limited to
the company's continued ability to make dividend payments, the company's
ability to implement its business plan, fluctuating energy commodity prices,
the possibility that regulators may not permit the company to pass through all
of its increased costs to its customers, changes in the utility regulatory
environment, wholesale and retail competition, weather conditions, litigation
risks, and various other matters, many of which are beyond the company's
control, the risk factors and cautionary statements made in the company's
public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and other factors
that the company is currently unable to identify or quantify, but may exist in
the future. Energy West expressly undertakes no obligation to update or revise
any forward-looking statement contained herein to reflect any change in Energy
West's expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or
circumstances on which any such statement is based.

For additional information or clarification regarding Energy West, please
contact: Kevin Degenstein, President and Chief Operating Officer.

The company's toll-free number is (800) 570-5688. The company's web site is
www.ewst.com. The company's address is 1 First Avenue South, Great Falls,
Montana 59401.

SOURCE Energy West, Incorporated

Kevin Degenstein, President and Chief Operating Officer of Energy West,
Incorporated, 1-800-570-5688