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APGA Asks FERC to Adopt Rule on Pipeline Aggregation of Bids on Non-contiguous Capacity Segments

Washington, D.C. (June 3, 2022) – A coalition of organizations including the American Public Gas Association (APGA) has filed a joint request for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to adopt a rule precluding a natural gas pipeline practice related to the aggregation of bids on non-contiguous segments of pipeline capacity.

In their joint comments, APGA and the other organizations, which represent industrial users, shippers on natural gas pipelines and local gas utilities, explained that the pipeline practice of packaging high-value pipeline capacity with non-contiguous, unrelated parcels of unwanted low- or no-value capacity forces shippers to bid an artificially inflated price and enables a pipeline to collect revenue that exceeds the approved maximum tariff rates for the high-value capacity. 

APGA joined with the Natural Gas Supply Association (NGSA), American Gas Association (AGA), and the Process Gas Consumers Group (PGCG) in the request for a FERC rulemaking on the practice, representing a broad coalition of natural gas producers, marketers, investor- and publicly-owned utilities and industrial users of natural gas. 

The APGA-NGSA-AGA-PGCG group filing can be found here.