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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