Inventory

Pacific Gas & Electric had a systemwide Stage 1high-inventory OFO in effect Wednesday, with penalties of 25cents/dth for positive daily imbalances exceeding a 1% tolerance.The OFO is being reduced to a customer-specific one effectivetoday. As of Wednesday PG&E was projecting that linepack wouldremain slightly above its target operating limit through Friday,then jump to much above its target Saturday.

Pacific Gas & Electric had a systemwide high-inventory OFOin effect Monday but did not extend it through today. The Stage 2order carried penalties of $1/Dth for positive daily imbalancesexceeding a tolerance of 1%.

Pacific Gas & Electric issued a systemwide high-inventoryOFO for today. While the tolerance for positive daily imbalances isfairly stringent at 3%, the non-compliance penalty is light at 25cents/Dth. As of Thursday PG&E was projecting above-targetlinepack through Sunday.

Pacific Gas & Electric ended a high-inventory OFO Saturdayafter it had been in effect for three days.

Despite projecting linepack within its operating limits targetrange, Pacific Gas & Electric extended a high-inventory OFO (seeDaily GPI, March 15 and March 16) into its third day today butloosened the tolerance for positive imbalances slightly from 1% to2%. The utility expects linepack to exceed its upper limit targetagain Saturday.

Pacific Gas & Electric extended a high-inventory Stage 1 OFO(see Daily GPI, March 14) through todayand tightened the tolerance for positive imbalances from 3% to 1%.

Pacific Gas & Electric issued a high inventory Stage 1 OFOfor today with 3% tolerance for positive imbalances.

Pacific Gas & Electric lifted a high-inventory OFO that hadbeen in effect for Friday only. All cold weather-related pipelineOFOs issued in the last two weeks remained in effect going into theweekend.

Pacific Gas & Electric said Friday it was working to resolveproblems with the OFO/EFO Outlook and System Inventory Status linkson its Pipe Ranger web site, hoping to restore them to operationSunday. Meanwhile, the utility assured shippers that no OFO hadbeen called for Saturday.