California Utility Tells Customers To Cut Gas Heating As Winter Weather Rolls In
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By Tim Pearce -
Southern California Gas Co., a natural gas utility, issued a “Dial It Down” alert to customers Monday, asking them to limit natural gas use through Thursday while cold weather strikes.
SoCal Gas asks customers to voluntarily turn down their thermostats and take shorter showers at various times throughout the winter when natural gas usage spikes. The notices, if heeded, may fend off a gas shortage later and relieves stress from the system.
Since 2016, SoCal Gas has warned its nearly 22 million customers every year that the utility may not have enough natural gas in stored up to last throughout the summer and winter. The warnings began after one of the utilities storage facilities was compromised by a gas leak.
SoCal Gas’s storage facility at Aliso Canyon – a network of underground caverns that used to be depositories for oil before they ran dry – in Southern California sprung a leak in 2015 leading to the second largest methane leak in U.S. history. The leak lasted for months before workers were able to patch it.
After the leak was patched, the California state government forbid SoCal Gas from filling the storage area to capacity again, cutting down the utility’s natural gas reserves.
Outages of gas pipelines have also plagued the utility and stressed the state’s natural gas delivery system.
In May 2018, California regulators, power companies and grid operators warned that the state may run out of natural gas during the winter. SoCal Gas asked the state to let it have full use of the Aliso Canyon facility to stave off a possible shortage, according to Reuters.
The state has refused to grant to request and looked for other alternatives to expanding California’s electrical capacity, including importing liquified natural gas from Mexico.
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