Systemwide

Pacific Gas & Electric issued a systemwide Stage 3 high-inventory OFO with $5/Dth penalties for positive imbalances exeeding 9% for Saturday.

Pacific Gas & Electric declared a systemwide Stage 3 high-inventory OFO for today. Positive imbalances exceeding a 4% tolerance are subject to penalties of $5/Dth.

PG&E called a Stage 4 systemwide OFO for gas day Saturday June 9. The recent high inventory customer-specific OFOs have not resulted in improved pipeline system conditions, the utility said. “Rather, we have seen non-targeted customers create significant imbalances.” The OFO had a 7% tolerance and $25/Dth penalties.

Southern California Gas did not extend an Overnominations Day notice beyond Friday, but Pacific Gas & Electric declared another systemwide Stage 3 high-inventory OFO for Saturday. The OFO carries penalties of $5/Dth for positive imbalances exceeding a 6% tolerance.

Pacific Gas & Electric declared an extremely stringent systemwide Stage 3 high-inventory OFO for Saturday. The order had zero tolerance for positive daily imbalances and carried penalties of $5/Dth.

Pacific Gas & Electric expanded what had been a customer-specific OFO for Saturday into systemwide Stage 3 high-inventory OFOs for Sunday and Monday. The sytemwide OFOs carried $5/Dth penalties for positive daily imbalances exceeding a 2% tolerance. However, no order is in place for today.

Tennessee issued a systemwide OFO Balancing Alert that was to take effect until further notice Saturday, saying it was experiencing high system linepack “due to overproduction, reduced demand and limited storage injection capacity.” The OFO requires customers under Rate Schedules LMS-MA and LMS-PA (including SAs) to keep actual daily deliveries into the system less than or equal to scheduled quantities plus 2% (or 500 dekatherms, whichever is greater) and actual daily takes out of the system greater than or equal to scheduled quantities minus 2% (or 500 dekatherms, whichever is greater). Customers will be charged $15 plus the applicable Regional Daily Spot Price for each dekatherm of gas outside of the designated tolerance, Tennessee said. Penalties will not apply to underdeliveries into the system or overtakes out of the system.

Pacific Gas & Electric extended a systemwide Stage 3high-inventory OFO through at least today, but loosened thetolerance for positive daily imbalances from 1% to 3%. The utilitycontinued to project linepack rising well above its maximum targetlevels through Saturday.

For a change Pacific Gas & Electric had more gas in itssystem than it wanted. The dual utility had a systemwide Stage 3high-inventory OFO with zero tolerance for positive dailyimbalances in effect Monday but did not extend the order intotoday.