NEW ENGLAND LDCS,SHELL ENERGY,AND OCEAN STATE POWER ARE ON SAME PAGE:TENNESSEE SHOULD GRANT ROFR RIGHTS TO HOLDERS OF NEGOTIATED CONTRACTS THAT ARE REVERTING TO MAXIMUM RATES

摘要

The New England Local Distribution Companies(New England LDCs)1 filed with FERC a letter in support of the November 17 letter filed by Ocean State Power and Ocean State Power II(collectively OSP)that iaid out further information relevant to whether shippers-holding certain service agreements with Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.(RP96-312)are entitled to a regulatory right-of-first-refusal(ROFR).Several of the New England LDCs have service agreements with the same terms as OSP.Absent clarification that the regulatory ROFR applies to these service agreements,some New England companies believe they will lose some or all of this capacity as part of a proposed Tennessee expansion project.The capacity at issue under these contracts is critical to serving customer load in the cold New England region.