ALJ/JSW/eap Mailed 5/25/2001
Decision 01-05-074 May 24, 2001
BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
Order Instituting Rulemaking into natural gas procurement and reliability issues. |
Rulemaking 88-08-018 (Filed August 10, 1988) |
Order Instituting Rulemaking on the Commission's own motion to change the structure of gas utilities' procurement practices and to propose refinements to the regulatory framework for gas utilities. |
Rulemaking 90-02-008 (Filed February 2, 1990) |
OPINION REGARDING THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
GENERATION COALITION EMERGENCY PETITION FOR
MODIFICATION OF DECISIONS 90-09-089 AND 97-11-070
I. Summary
On February 15, 2001, the Southern California Generation Coalition (SCGC) filed an emergency petition to modify Decision (D.) 90-09-089 and D.97-11-070.1 SCGC's petition requests that the two decisions be modified to waive the 10 percent limit on monthly positive imbalances (overnominations) for noncore customers during the winter balancing period, and that noncore customers be permitted to combat gas price spikes by using their previous months' accumulated positive imbalance volumes to meet at least a portion of the flowing supply requirement that applies when the Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) implements its winter daily balancing rules.
Based on the reasons contained in this decision, SCGC's request to modify the two decisions is denied.
1 D.90-09-089 and D.97-11-070 are reported in 37 CPUC2d 583 and 76 CPUC2d 598, respectively.
