November 1, 2019: Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
Annual Winter Reliability Assessment

Introduction

The Energy Association of Pennsylvania represents the interests of its Member Natural Gas Distribution Companies:

• Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania
• Leatherstocking Gas Company, LLC
• National Fuel Gas Distribution Corp.
• PECO
• Peoples Natural Gas Company LLC
• Peoples Gas Company
• Philadelphia Gas Works
• Pike County Light & Power Company
• UGI Utilities, Inc. – Gas Division
• Valley Energy

Distributing natural gas to over three million residential, commercial and industrial customers in Pennsylvania

How Gas is Delivered

• Extracted from wells and moved from collection point into gathering system for sale into the wholesale market
  • Includes processing facility where natural gas is purified and useful by-products such as propane and butane are removed
• Moved into transmission system using compressors
  • counteracts friction that is created when gas is moved through steel pipe
• Transported by midstream companies to utility’s delivery point (“city gate”) or to upstream storage
  • Pressure reduced
  • Odorant added
• Moved into utility’s distribution pipeline and delivered through individual service lines to customer
  • pressure further reduced for delivery

Supply and Demand – Winter 2019-2020
(all natural gas volumes in billions of cubic feet)