Vetting

AGA, NGSA Recommend Changes to Storage Survey Procedures

The main thing the Energy Information Administration (EIA) can do to improve its weekly storage survey, according to two veteran natural gas associations, is to improve its procedures for collecting and vetting the data it receives from companies, so that after-the-fact revisions will be unnecessary. The suggestions were filed Monday in response to EIA’s call for comments on changing its procedures for announcing revisions to the weekly storage number (see Daily GPI, Jan. 10).

February 8, 2005

FERC’s Brownell Wary of Reliability Rules Getting Bogged Down by Stakeholder Vetting

Stakeholder processes have their place in certain situations, but adopting such an approach to the crafting of clear, enforceable and mandatory electric reliability rules could prove to be extremely counterproductive, FERC Commissioner Nora Brownell told an audience of state utility regulatory commissioners last Monday.

March 15, 2004