A task force of the North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB) formed to study issues of coordination between the natural gas and electric industries has filed its final report with FERC, NAESB said on Thursday.

The gas-electric coordination task force (GECTF) met from December 2003 to August 2004. Its report to FERC on its activities includes issues identified, a level of categorization of these issues and identification of issues for further consideration through the possible development of NAESB standards.

The report noted that three standards development requests have resulted from the task force’s efforts:

Work on the energy day standards request has already begun, the report noted. The first meeting on this issue was held Dec. 1-2 at KeySpan’s offices in Brooklyn, NY.

The report also pointed out that the NAESB Board of Directors at its September 2004 meeting formed a board level gas-electric interdependency committee. “The mission of the committee is to review issues requiring gas-electric interdependency at an executive level and identify actions that may result in additional NAESB standards development,” the report said.

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