Summer Natural Gas Shortage Possible in California, Regulator Says

May 17, 2018, 7:19 PM UTC

Reduced natural gas storage at Aliso Canyon in Southern California may lead to supply disruptions this summer, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission staff said May 17.

Distribution-level pipeline outages in the region may affect the amount of gas supplied to power plants and can hamper movement of gas to storage, FERC staff said at a meeting in Washington presenting its summer Energy Market and Reliability Assessment.

“I am deeply troubled by California policy makers’ refusal to support Aliso Canyon as a reliable storage facility to deal with critical backup storage,” FERC Commissioner Robert Powelson said at the agency’s ...

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