Who are the California retail buyers of gas transported by pipeline (noncore utility customers)?
Few retail gas customers of utilities directly hold firm interstate pipeline capacity rights, and neither the CPUC nor the California Energy Commission have data about retail noncore customers’ purchasing practices. Almost all firm interstate pipeline capacity rights to delivery points in California are held by utilities, a small number of cities which procure gas for electric generation, or natural gas marketers. The CPUC reviewed the index of customers of El Paso, Transwestern, Kern River, and GTN Northwest, the four major interstate pipelines that serve California. Aside from natural gas utilities and marketers, the CPUC could identify only the following parties as retail gas customers who hold firm capacity rights on these pipelines: · Department of Water and Power of Los Angeles, on Kern River and El Paso · Sacramento Municipal Utility District, on Kern River, GTN Northwest and Transwestern · City of Burbank, on GTN Northwest · City of Glendale, on GTN Northwest · City of Pasadena
