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change to FERC's Certificate Policy Statement
that the commission introduced in
February but then quickly withdrew in
response to Congressional scrutiny.
While Chairman Glick regularly describes
the revised policy statement as a
refinement of the 1999 policy, it rejected
wholesale a key component of that policy.
Specifically, in the 1999 policy, FERC
generally removed itself from the role of
determining project need. The old policy
statement did not forbid FERC from
weighing other evidence, but made it
clear that the agency considered binding
precedent agreements-particularly with
unaffiliated shippers-as conclusive evidence
a project was needed.
The revised policy adopted by FERC
in February completely abandoned this
concept and restored FERC to the role
of omniscient predictor of the future,
by installing it as the ultimate judge of
need. Instead of treating contracts as a
clear indicator of demand, the policy
held that FERC should make decisions
based on its own views of reports by
" experts'' about future gas demand in
a region.
The risk of this drastic change already
is playing out with respect to REA. To
stop the project, the New Jersey Board
of Public Utilities (BPU) and the New
Jersey Division of Rate Counsel have argued
that there is no need for the additional
capacity REA would create.
SJI Utilities, the company that owns
two of New Jersey's gas utilities, filed
a response for its subsidiaries, Elizabethtown
Gas and South Jersey Gas.
That filing noted a key fact: it is the
utilities themselves under New Jersey
law-not the BPU-that are charged with
being the " providers of last resort " and
ensuring " the adequacy of gas supply
and associated pipeline capacity to serve
the full needs of their customers. " As
stated in the filing, the two subsidiaries
have " entered into a binding precedent
agreement with Transco to meet approximately
25% and 34%, respectively,
of their projected increases in demand
over the next 10 years. "
Although the letter does not go so far
as to say that should end the discussion
on need, it does note the utilities' assessments
are " not based on speculation-
they are based on a market-driven need. "
A Second Strategy
Another strategy that can be deployed
to expand New England's pipeline capacity
is to replace older pipelines in the region
with newer, larger-diameter pipelines and
combine that with retiring older gasdriven
compressors in favor of electricdriven
compressors.
As shown in Figure 3, states with
the most pipe in the region-New York,
Connecticut and Massachusetts-also
have some of the oldest pipelines. This
creates an opportunity for growth projects
that will replace the aging pipelines,
through a lift and lay process with larger-diameter
pipelines. Such upgrades
will improve the safety and reliability
of existing infrastructure, which may
be more acceptable than greenfield
pipelines such as Constitution.
It helps that existing compressor stations
are likely to be gas-fired. Replacing
them with electric-driven compressors
reduces pollution and noise. For stations
located in low-income or minority communities,
going electric also promotes
environmental justice.
Whether limiting pipeline construction
to friendlier states and upgrading existing
pipelines will be enough for projects to
overcome regulatory roadblocks remains
to be seen. But these methods have the
best chance for success in a difficult area
of the country that is in desperate need
of increased gas supplies.
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