US Regulators Call for Gas Reliability Oversight to Stem Outages

Sept. 21, 2023, 6:56 PM UTC

The top US energy regulator joined the country’s power grid reliability official in calling for Congress to establish a reliability organization to oversee the natural gas system.

“It’s abundantly clear that we must make major improvements to the cold-weather reliability of both the natural gas and electricity production and grid systems,” Willie Phillips, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said Thursday.

“I have said repeatedly: Someone—it doesn’t have to be FERC—must have authority to establish and enforce natural gas reliability standards,” Phillips said, adding later that he has made it clear to lawmakers that he wants a gas reliability organization. ...

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