California Directing Utilities To Increase Natural Gas Storage In Preparation For Winter -- September 24, 2019

From Reuters:

• The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has told Southern California Gas Co (SoCalGas) to take immediate steps to increase the amount of gas it has in storage to maintain reliable service this winter.
• "To maintain reliable delivery to ... customers during the winter, SoCalGas should take immediate action to increase injections at all available storage facilities," CPUC Executive Director Alice Stebbins said in a letter to SoCalGas made available on Friday.

So many story lines here:

• wind and solar can't keep up?
• Navajo Generating Station shutting down?
• 4wind farms not being asked to store wind energy to prepare for the winter?
• solar farms not being asked to store solar energy to prepare for the winter?
• why aren't wind and solar farms being expanded?
• why aren't Californians being told to go out and buy some wool sweaters?
• California promoting more CO2 emissions?
• who absorbs cost of storage? the state or the consumer? the utility? the shareholders?
• is California going to make it easier for in-state natural gas operators to drill in the state?

By the way, where does California get its natural gas? A quick google search:

Most of the natural gas used in California comes from out-of-state natural gas basins. In 2012, California customers received 35% of their natural gas supply from basins located in the Southwest, 16% from Canada, 40% from the Rocky Mountains, and 9% from basins located within California.

Case closed.

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