California PUC approves plan to maintain Aliso Canyon at 34 Bcf storage capacity

摘要

The California Public Utilities Commission approved Nov. 19 to keep the interim range of Aliso Canyon storage capacity at 0 to 34 Bcf to maintain energy and electric reliability for the region. Several public comments were made during the Nov. 19 PUC meeting regarding the Aliso Canyon agenda item, many by community members expressing healthy and safety concerns relating to the natural gas storage facility. “You should be working to shut Aliso Canyon down because we should be moving to clean energy,” one commenter said. California Senate Bill 380 in 2016 tasked the PUC with determining the range of working gas necessary at the Aliso Canyon Natural Gas Storage Facility to ensure safety and reliability for the region and just and reasonable rates in California, according to filed documents. The Public Utilities Code instructs the PUC executive director, in consultation with the state oil and gas supervisor, to direct the operator of Aliso Canyon to maintain a specified range of working gas in the storage field.