Tenaska Vehemently Attacks Northern's Proposal To Require a Transportation Nomination in order for Natural Gas to be moved Between Pooling Points and Storage Points

摘要

Tenaska Marketing Ventures (TMV) strongly protested an application filed on September 2 by Northern Natural Gas Co. (RP15-1251) that, as Tenaska describes it, "proposes to disassociate its long-standing pooling storage points from their associated MID pools." Pursuant to Northern’s proposed tariff revisions, these storage points are now identified “for informational purposes only.” By eliminating an original core feature of Rate Schedule MPS - the direct access by an MPS customer to the associated pooling storage points --Northern’s proposal represents a major degradation to an essential supply aggregation service that has been in place for nearly 17 years, claimed the customer. Tenaska asked for at least a full suspension because it believes the proposal "cripples Northern’s customers’ existing MPS contracts, and compromises those customers’ storage supply plans and dependent delivery arrangements at the worst possible time: the start of the upcoming winter heating season."