Penalties

A day after ending an OFO to combat excessive linepack, Pacific Gas & Electric issued a new systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Saturday. Penalties again were set at $1/Dth for positive daily imbalances, but this time the tolerance was zero instead of the 7% in the earlier order.

Pacific Gas & Electric declared a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Thursday. Penalties are $1/Dth for positive daily imbalances exceeding a tolerance of 7%.

Sonat implemented a systemwide OFO Type 6 for short imbalances effective Saturday until further notice. Tiered penalties of $1-15/Dth were applicable for negative daily imbalances exceeding a tolerance of 2% or 200 dekatherms, whichever was greater. Positive imbalances were unaffected. It was “highly likely” that the OFO would continue through Sunday, the pipeline said, but “too close to call” for Monday.

Pacific Gas & Electric issued a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Saturday. Penalties of $1/Dth applied to positive daily imbalances exceeding a 5% tolerance.

Sonat implemented an OFO Type 6 effective Saturday until further notice. Tiered penalties ranged from $1 to $15 per dekatherm for shippers running positive daily imbalances in excess of a tolerance of 2% or 200 dekatherms, whichever was greater.

Pacific Gas & Electric set a stringent imbalance tolerance of zero in declaring a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Wednesday. Penalties are $1/Dth. The utility’s “System Inventory Status” section of its Pipe Ranger bulletin board projected Tuesday that linepack would be above maximum target levels from Wednesday through Sept. 19.

A day after lifting a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO, Pacific Gas & Electric issued a new one for Saturday’s gas day. Penalties of $1/Dth were unchanged, but the tolerance for positive daily imbalances was loosened a bit from zero in the previous OFO to 2%.

Pacific Gas & Electric declared a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Thursday. Penalties are $1/Dth for violating a stringent zero tolerance for positive daily imbalances.

Pacific Gas & Electric declared a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Friday. It carried penalties of $1/Dth for exceeding a positive daily imbalance tolerance of 4%.