Pacific Gas & Electric issued a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Friday. Penalties of $1/Dth were set for customers exceeding an 11% tolerance for positive daily imbalances.

Noting that it began anomaly investigations Tuesday between the Lava Hot Springs and Pocatello compressor stations, Northwest said Primary firm nomination requests through Lava Hot Springs have exceeded the available capacity of 553,000 Dth/d. The pipeline implemented a Declared Deficiency Period Thursday, saying that based on the station’s design capacity of 648,000 Dth/d, the Daily Deficiency Volume is 95,000 Dth/d. The Declared Deficiency Period is expected to continue through the end of July.

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