Climate Change Dispatch 10/21/2019
New York’s chief energy regulator, the Public Service Commission, is reluctantly admitting that the state faces a natural-gas shortage, though the commissioners disagree on what to do about it.
Even Commissioner Tracey Edwards, who devoted much of her time at last week’s meeting to complaining that utility National Grid had been “mean†in declaring a moratorium on natural-gas hookups in a major service area, admitted, “We have capacity issues.â€
Commissioner John Howard was franker: “We need more gas. That’s an undeniable fact.â€
But only Commissioner Diane Burman seemed willing to admit the state has made things worse by “not making decisions we need to make.â€
This will boost carbon emissions by forcing greater use of “dirtier†fuels: “We will have the need for switching interruptible customers off of gas onto oil, isn’t that right?†she asked PSC engineer John Sano, who was there to advise on technical issues and confirmed that staff is on it.
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