Interconnection

Boardwalk Pipeline Partners LP said subsidiary Gulf South Pipeline has signed binding precedent agreements with customers to transport 1.6 Bcf/d of gas to an interconnection at Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line’s Station 85 in Choctaw County, AL. The committed capacity includes 560 MMcf/d to be transported from the Perryville, LA and Harrisville, MS areas to Station 85 on the Southeast Expansion project and 1 Bcf/d from various receipt points in Texas and Oklahoma to Station 85 on the Gulf Crossing Pipeline project.

Boardwalk Pipeline Partners LP said subsidiary Gulf South Pipeline has signed binding precedent agreements with customers to transport 1.6 Bcf/d of gas to an interconnection at Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line’s Station 85 in Choctaw County, AL. The committed capacity includes 560 MMcf/d to be transported from the Perryville, LA and Harrisville, MS areas to Station 85 on the Southeast Expansion project and 1 Bcf/d from various receipt points in Texas and Oklahoma to Station 85 on the Gulf Crossing Pipeline project.

Effective with the start of Thursday’s gas day MRT is lifting the System Protection Warning that was implemented Wednesday.

NiSource subsidiary Columbia Gulf Transmission Co. said Wednesday it is planning a new interconnection with Texas Eastern Transmission Co. near the town of Columbia in Adair County, KY. Scheduled for service in the fourth quarter of 2006, the new connection will enable Columbia Gulf to deliver up to 200,000 Dth/d from its Mainline Zone into Texas Eastern’s Zone M-2.

Calling it a proposed transmission “superhighway,” American Electric Power (AEP) last Tuesday filed with FERC and PJM Interconnection to build a new 765-kV transmission line stretching from West Virginia to New Jersey. The projected cost is approximately $3 billion.

Texas Eastern Transmission (Tetco) told shippers Thursday that it is in the process of building its new interconnection with Discovery Gas Transmission near the Larose Compressor Station that will open the door to about 250,000 Dth/d of offshore gas supply that, absent processing at the Discovery Larose Processing Plant, would not be accepted due to quality concerns. The connection is expected to be available prior to Nov. 30.

ISO New England (ISO-NE), the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) and PJM Interconnection on Thursday said that they have agreed to collaborate to ensure electric power system reliability in the event of constraints on the natural gas supply system.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week called for a review of rates imposed by the PJM Interconnection, saying they may be unjust, unreasonable and otherwise unlawful.

Regardless of the merits or faults of a recently proposed generator retirement policy by PJM Interconnection, there are deeper market design flaws that the regional transmission organization (RTO) must address in order to ensure reliability in its footprint, generators told FERC in recent filings [EL03-236].