Rotating

Transportation Notes

Columbia Gas plans will begin Wednesday a rotating shut-in of interrruptible production that will continue through the summer at the A05-Delmont aggregation point in the southern part of Market Area 36. This is due to excessive line pressure resulting from decreased market requirements, the pipeline said. Columbia’s field personnel will notify affected producers.

May 14, 2003

California Comes Close to Rotating Blackouts Again

In a sequence that likely will be repeated often this summer, California’s independent transmission grid operator, Cal-ISO, Thursday erred on the side of getting out advance warning of possible rolling blackouts only to pull back the emergency measure within minutes of the targeted time for blackouts to begin. As of 4 p.m. (PDT), the blackouts had not become necessary in the second consecutive day of Stage One and Two alerts.

June 1, 2001