US NATGAS: East Manufacturing Hit by Scarce Natgas Pipeline Capacity: NGI

A lack of available natural gas pipeline capacity along the East Coast is hurting the productivity of manufacturers in the region, according to NGI citing the Industrial Energy Consumers of America (IECA).

• With rising consumption by power generators and LNG export terminals signing firm transport agreements, industrial end users with secondary firm or interruptible service increasingly face curtailed deliveries during demand spikes, NGI said.
• “From Georgia to New York, due to inadequate interstate natural gas pipeline capacity, the lack of coordinated decision making by states for the use of natural gas for new power generation, and decisions to shut down existing coal-fired power plants, there is no firm pipeline capacity available for the manufacturing sector,” IECA President Paul Cicio said in a letter to FERC.