Lightning was suspected as the cause of a 50-minute power outage Wednesday afternoon that knocked out power to nearly half a million people on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and in the western part of the Bronx, Consolidated Edison Co. of New York (ConEd) said last week. The utility also was blitzed by more outages in other parts of the city following severe thunderstorms later Wednesday night.
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ExxonMobil’s Raymond Announces Retirement
Lee R. Raymond, who served as a lightning rod for environmental critics while steadily guiding ExxonMobil Corp. to become the world’s richest public company, on Thursday said he will retire at the end of this year.
FERC Intercedes in Western Power Alerts; Resets Price Cap
California’s “heat storm” last week drew some regulatory lightning, as FERC took emergency action Thursday setting a hard price cap for wholesale power across the West at $91.87 per MWh, at the same time criticizing the Cal-ISO for following a strategy to minimize costs — without regard to reliability.
Transportation Notes
A lightning strike Monday night at PG&E GasTransmission-Northwest’s Station 13 (Chemult, OR) caused ashortfall in receipts, but PG&E GT-NW said it worked with NOVAto correct respective linepacks under an Operational BalancingAgreement and thus did not expect any impact on Tuesday’s scheduledvolumes. However, it was unable to schedule any increased receiptsat Kingsgate or additional deliveries through Station 13 Tuesday.
Transportation Notes
A direct lightning strike occurred Monday at Transwestern’sBisti Compressor Station (San Juan County, NM), prompting thepipeline to declare a force majeure. Transwestern expected thestation to be down about three days, saying San Juan Lateralcapacity would be reduced to 700,000 MMbtu/d through Thursday.