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During the past two years, the term environmental externalities has become increasingly important in energy industries. The economic concept of externalities has been around for a long time, but state requirements that electric utilities factor [...] Read More

INGAA and the DEGT Pipelines, the Intervenors in Support of Respondent (hereinafter "Intervenors"), adopt the Commission’s statement of the ROFR issue: Whether the Commission reasonably concluded that no term-matching cap was necessary for the [...] Read More

The Clinton Administration recently proposed a modified Btu tax on energy. Before the announcement, a variety of taxes was being considered, both broad-based (e.g., Btu, carbon, ad valorem and VAT) and fuel-specific (motor fuels and the oil import [...] Read More

This paper examines current federal regulations of interstate natural gas pipelines with regard to their treatment of recoating costs. These regulations require that costs associated with recoating be expensed in the year incurred. The analysis [...] Read More

The natural gas industry is simultaneously undergoing fundamental structural change and being challenged to cultivate an array of new market opportunities. To successfully navigate through this period of transition, meet the needs of energy [...] Read More

The INGAA Foundation is an organization made up largely of suppliers to the natural gas industry, including manufacturers of linepipe, pipe coatings, compressors, valves and metering equipment. Gas pipelines make up the remainder of the Foundation [...] Read More

This report focuses on the major intrastate natural gas pipelines operating in Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas, the intrastate gas market. Major findings of the report are as follows: Intrastate gas pipelines represent an important component of [...] Read More

The costs associated with the development of energy resources and protection of the environment have grown in importance to the energy industry, federal and state governments, and energy customers. The INGAA Foundation (Foundation) engaged R. J. [...] Read More

For a wide variety of reasons, many industry analysts believe that the amount of natural gas used for electric generation by utilities, independent power producers (IPPs), and industrial and commercial cogenerators will increase dramatically in the [...] Read More

There are now over one million natural gas vehicles in use worldwide. Natural gas is a high quality transportation fuel which has been proposed as a method for: Reducing fuel costs Reducing vehicle emissions Meeting legislative [...] Read More

At the request of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) Foundation, The Keystone Center facilitated a meeting of high level representatives from the electric and gas industries in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on March 1 6- 1 8, 1994. [...] Read More

While global energy consumption has remained almost static since 1990, demand for natural gas has continued to rise: its share of the primary energy market across the world has now reached 23% (or over 70 trillion cubic feet (tco in volume terns) [...] Read More

The Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 ("PURPA") has been, and continues to be, a net benefit for the natural gas industry. The gas industry should only support amendments to, or repeal of, PURPA if other statutory or [...] Read More

Introduction New underground natural gas storage and market center hubs have been among the most dynamic aspects of the evolving North American natural gas markets. These developments stem fiom the impacts of FERC Order No. 636, which potentially [...] Read More

At the INGAA Foundation's Midyear Meeting, it was decided to sponsor a roundtable to discuss the scope of a study which would review the increasing stringent requirements for stream and river crossing permits. The goal was to assess the overall [...] Read More

Pursuant to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NOPR”) issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or “Commission”) on January 18, 2007, as modified by order dated February 28, 2007, the Interstate Natural Gas Association [...] Read More

The Commission's financial forms perform an important function by providing the Commission and the industry with a snapshot of the financial position of an interstate pipeline during the reporting period.  As they are currently designed, [...] Read More

INGAA submitted a response to questions posed by the Commission, along with comments on the petition for rulemaking to remove the cap on released capacity filed by Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and Southwest Gas Company in RM06-21, and [...] Read More

INGAA comments are in response to FERC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to establish new permanent affiliate regulations.  INGAA requests that the Commission issue a Final Rule in this docket consistent with the following comments: 1.The [...] Read More

Pursuant to the Commission's “Notice of Inquiry” into the need for changes or revisions to its reporting requirements for financial forms issued February 15, 2007, submits comments principally directed at the Commission's Form Nos. 2 and 2-A, [...] Read More