- Natural gas constraints in Southern California could pose a risk to the region's power supply this summer, while New England and Texas could face tight electricity supplies, according to the FERC.
- The agency's summer reliability assessment forecasts power resources should be adequate to meet demand in most regions this summer, but restrictions at the Aliso Canyon storage facility could pose a risk to gas and electric reliability in Southern California, especially if hotter than normal weather conditions and unplanned gas pipeline outages materialize during the summer.
- California state agencies have not allowed Sempra Energy 's (NYSE:SRE) SoCalGas to inject gas into the facility since a leak that started in October 2015; FERC also says new regulations on gas storage facilities imposed by California likely will reduce gas flows.
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