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Con Ed plans renewable gas, LNG storage facilities among pipeline constraints

October 5, 2018

This is not the first time Con Edison has addressed the tightening supply-demand balance in the area. Over the summer, New York regulators approved a $5 million gas demand response pilot aimed at cutting peak demand over the next three years.

Demand response for natural gas is still a fairly new idea, but it is just one way gas utilities are stealing a page from their electric counterparts to develop “non-pipes solutions” that avoid the need for larger investments.

Con Edison insists that the region still needs a new pipeline, given the growing reliance on gas-fired power plants. But the utility says the package of strategies it has proposed to the New York State Department of Public Service would offset peak-day gas demand by 84,500 Dth, sufficient to avoid greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 5 million tons of carbon dioxide over the life of the programs.

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