California Energy Commission Operations and Market Support

With both of California’s gas utilities still performing maintenance to validate maximum allowable operating pressures and with power plant outages threatening reliability, the California Energy Commission needed a quick, due diligence style check of key developments to warn of reduced access to gas or exercises of market power that might arise. Aspen staff perform a weekly, forward-looking check of natural gas and electricity market developments and operations on the Southern California Gas and Pacific Gas and Electric systems; delivering that appraisal in very abbreviated format to Commissioners.