Reliant is under a Critical Period operational alert due tosevere weather in the system’s market area. Effective today no SBSrate schedule storage withdrawals will be allowed until furthernotice.

Pacific Gas & Electric issued a Stage 1 high-inventory OFOfor today with $1/Dth penalties for positive imbalances exceeding a2% tolerance.

Due to its South Texas and East Texas zones being scheduled tocapacity, Texas Eastern cut about 40% of PreferentialTransportation volumes sourced in those zones Thursday. No IT maybe nominated in the two zones for delivery elsewhere until furthernotice.

Tennessee announced completion of a new interconnect with CNGnear Sabinsville in Tioga County, PA. The new link, capable of300,000 Dth/d of bi-directional flow, began operation Jan. 20. Itis located just north of the Leidy storage hub and offers accessinto CNG’s North Point pool.

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