Transmission

National Grid is turning to electricity from Canada to try to lower energy costs for consumers in New England, where natural gas pipeline constraints have raised concerns over reliability and caused price spikes during recent winters.

The Transportation Department’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) said it will extend the public comment period for proposed rules governing natural gas transmission and gathering lines by another 30 days, but it was half of what the oil and gas industry had requested.

The Transportation Department’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) said it will extend the public comment period for proposed rules governing natural gas transmission and gathering lines by another 30 days, but it was half of what the oil and gas industry had requested.

FERC has approved Dominion Transmission Inc.’s (DTI) Lebanon West II Project, which would carry gas from Pennsylvania to Lebanon, OH.

Sempra Energy’s two California utilities plan to file with California regulators by the end of this month to proceed with a new natural gas transmission pipeline link in the heart of San Diego County and the center of the population at the southern end of the state.

County road workers punctured a 12-inch diameter Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) transmission pipeline last Friday, injuring up to 14 people and closing north-south state Highway 99 in California’s Central Valley near Fresno. The incident was caused by an excavator and was not the fault of the company, according to officials.

Columbia Pipeline Group (CPG) is planning two pipeline projects at a combined cost of $1.75 billion that would carry up to 1.5 Bcf/d of gas from the Marcellus and Utica shales to markets on Columbia Gas Transmission and Columbia Gulf Transmission.

American Electric Power (AEP) is “successfully executing” its long-term earnings growth strategy, which includes investing in the company’s utility operations, retiring a number of coal-fired plants and building its transmission business to support an annual earnings growth rate of 4-6%, CEO Nicholas K. Akins, told shareholders at the company’s annual meeting Tuesday in Fort Wayne, IN.

EQT Midstream Partners LP said Tuesday it has entered into agreements with a subsidiary of Range Resources Corp. to provide gathering, compression and transmission services for Range’s growing Marcellus Shale production in southwest Pennsylvania.