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Southern California has plenty of extra transmission capacity for both natural gas and electricity, but the region still faces potential rolling power blackouts during extended heat spells this summer, officials told a California Senate energy committee hearing in Sacramento Wednesday.

A bill to tighten California’s rules for natural gas storage wells (SB 380) was signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Jerry Brown, enhancing oversight and testing imposed in the wake of the four-month leak at the Aliso Canyon underground storage facility.

A bill to tighten California’s rules for natural gas storage wells (SB 380) was signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Jerry Brown, enhancing oversight and testing imposed in the wake of the four-month leak at the Aliso Canyon underground storage facility.

In separate forums this week, senior executives of Sempra Energy and its Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) utility began to deconstruct the unprecedented four-month natural gas storage well leak, which was sealed in mid-February, as underscoring the criticality of close electric-gas grid coordination and the heavily populated region’s energy reliability.

In separate forums this week, senior executives of Sempra Energy and its Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) utility began to deconstruct the unprecedented four-month natural gas storage well leak, which was sealed in mid-February, as underscoring the criticality of close electric-gas grid coordination and the heavily populated region’s energy reliability.

Southern California Edison Co. (SCE) is keeping a close eye on summer power requirements in the aftermath of the Aliso Canyon underground natural gas storage field closure and the prospects, albeit small, of gas prices spiking.

Southern California Edison Co. (SCE) is keeping a close eye on summer power requirements in the aftermath of the Aliso Canyon underground natural gas storage field closure and the prospects, albeit small, of gas prices spiking.

California’s largest underground natural gas storage field could eventually be closed permanently and when it might reopen is uncertain, at best, meaning state officials and the state’s energy utilities could be wrestling with the aftermath of a four-month leak stopped in mid-February for some time, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) President Michael Picker said Thursday.

California’s largest underground natural gas storage field could eventually be closed permanently and when it might reopen is uncertain, at best, meaning state officials and the state’s energy utilities could be wrestling with the aftermath of a four-month leak stopped in mid-February for some time, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) President Michael Picker said Thursday.