EAP Report – Annual Winter Reliability Industry Assessment
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)
Expected Demand | 223.8 Bcf |
Expected Supply | |
Flowing Interstate Gas | 130.1 |
Storage Withdrawals | 88.3 |
Local Production | 3.5 |
Peak Shaving | 1.9 |
TOTAL | 223.8 |
Questions
Please direct any questions or requests for more information to Debra Kitner by email or phone at (717) 901-0607.