REPORT OF NORTH AMERICAN ELECTRIC RELIABILITY CORP. SETS STAGE FOR ONGOING COLLABORATION WITH NATURAL GAS INDUSTRY AS ELECTRIC CUSTOMER BASE EXPANDS

摘要

The Natural Gas Council (NGC)1, representing the companies that produce, transport and deliver natural gas throughout the U.S., praised a report issued very recently by the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC)2, titled, "2011 Special Reliability Assessment: A Primer of the Natural Gas and Electric Power Interdependency in the United States." The Council was pleased "to see that NERC's report underscores the importance of reliability in meeting the needs of the more than 70 million Americans who count on natural gas for their energy needs, and specifically, natural gas to the electric sector. Even more notable, the assessment recognizes the critical role that natural gas will play in the future of electric power, which NERC points out has grown to be the largest consuming sector of the natural gas industry."