Coordinating

No spike in natural gas demand for power generation in the Northeast is expected this summer as the Northeast Power Coordinating Council Inc. (NPCC) said Tuesday that a recently completed reliability assessment shows that the region will have an adequate supply of electricity this summer.

The board of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) may address the issue of coordinating U.S. natural gas and electricity grids at its next national meeting, according to the head of the natural gas committee.

The board of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) is slated to consider a resolution addressing the issue of coordinating U.S. natural gas and electricity grids at its next national meeting.

A major producer group has called on the White House to take the lead in coordinating federal reviews of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) with the goal of avoiding redundancy and streamlining work.

Targa Resources Partners LP has made an anchor commitment to DCP Midstream LLC’s Sandhills Pipeline, DCP said Monday. The long-term agreements provide for an interconnection of Sandhills to a new delivery point with Targa’s Cedar Bayou Fractionators LP facility at Mont Belvieu, TX.

The Northeast Power Coordinating Council (NPCC) last Wednesday released the results of comprehensive reliability assessments, projecting the region will have adequate supplies of electricity and will meet its system reliability criteria this summer under normal summer weather conditions.

FERC recently issued an order modifying the price cap on spot market sales in the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) outside the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) grid to a $400/MWh “soft” cap. The order also raises the ancillary service capacity bid cap in CAISO to a $400/MWh soft cap [EL06-44].

The region encompassing the Northeast Power Coordinating Council (NPCC) is projected to have adequate power supplies this summer, although portions of New England and New York could experience a very limited number of time periods when use of interruptible power contracts, voltage reductions and/or reductions in reserve requirements could be required, NPCC said on Thursday.

Coordinating it with other projects going on in the area, Sonat began pipeline integrity work Tuesday on the 16-inch LRC Interconnect Line. The project is expected to run through Monday, during which Sonat will be unable to accept nominations at the Sabine bidirectional interconnect point codes (605200 and 605210) and at the NGPL interconnect point codes (663200 and 663210).