![](media/image1.jpeg){width="8.5in" height="3.5027777777777778in"}U.S.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

**Office of Electricity, Delivery and\
Energy Reliability**

**ENERGY ASSURANCE DAILY**

**June 7, 2005**

#### Electricity

### Update to Pennsylvania Outages - 60,000 Affected EAD's Monday report showed 26,000 customers in Pennsylvania without electricity after fast-moving storms moved through the area Monday afternoon.  Recent news sources cite downed wires and damaged equipment from over 12,000 lightning strikes and heavy rains as causing power outages in southeastern Pennsylvania (Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties). In total, the storm caused outages for nearly 60,000 customers, with the most extensive damage in Chester and Bucks counties.

Bloomberg 11:36, June 7, 2005

### Update to New York Outages -- 56,000 Lost Power

19,000 New York State Electric and Gas customers in Central New York
(Binghampton, Corning, Ithaca), 12,000 Niagara Mohawk customers near the
state capitol of Albany, and 25,000 Central Hudson customers near the
Town of Ulster were all without power Monday.

<http://www.saratogian.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14651863&BRD=1169&PAG=461&dept_id=17708&rfi=6>

<http://www.the-leader.com/articles/2005/06/07/local_news/local02.txt>

<http://www.theithacajournal.com/news/stories/20050607/localnews/2152458.html>

<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14651690&BRD=1769&PAG=461&dept_id=74969&rfi=6>

### 

### 37,000 Without Power in South Carolina by Early Tuesday

### Progress Energy reported that tree damage caused power outages to approximately 22,000 homes in Sumter, SC, for an hour and 15 minutes. Power has since been restored to all homes. South Carolina Electric & Gas reported that a tree fell on a power line, causing about 15,000 customers to lose power in the town of Lexington and surrounding areas. Power had been restored to all but 500 customers as of 11:16 am today.

<http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3441967&nav=0RaPakGt>

<http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3441967&nav=0RaPakGt>

21,000 People Without Power in Ohio Sunday\
Toledo Edison estimated that storms caused 21,000 residents to be
without power between the Ohio-Indiana border and Cleveland.

<http://www.centralohio.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/BB/20050607/NEWS01/506070304/1002&template=BB>

**PPL'S Susquehanna Unit 2 Nuke Shut June 6**\
A problem with the electric transmission network caused Unit 2 at PPL\'s
Susquehanna nuclear power plant to shut down automatically at 12:33 p.m.
EDT Monday. The plant\'s other reactor, Unit 1, continues to operate at
100 percent power.

<http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050606/phm055.html?.v=8>

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### Calpine's 281 MW Gas-fired Delta Unit in California Shut June 7

Reuters 14:18, June 7, 2005

### DTE's 232 MW Gas-fired La Paloma 3 Unit in California Shut June 6

Reuters 14:18, June 7, 2005

### Calpine's 505 MW Gas-fired Metcalf Unit in California Shut June 7

Reuters 14:18, June 7, 2005

### PG&E's 404 MW Gas-fired Helms 3 Unit in California Shut June 6

Reuters 18:28, June 7, 2005

### World Record of 100,000 MW Set by PJM

Electricity grid operator for the U.S. Mid-Atlantic and Midwest states,
PJM Interconnection, supplied 114,800 megawatts on Monday. PJM said this
power usage was "the first time any centrally dispatched grid in the
world met a demand of more than 100,000 MW."

Reuters 09:59, June 7, 2005

#### Petroleum

### Shell\'s 103,500 b/d Wilmington Refinery Affected by Power Outage

A brief power outage Monday afternoon temporarily affected some units at
Shell\'s 103,500 b/d Wilmington refinery in Los Angeles, California.
Shell expects the units to resume operations within the next day and a
half and expects no supply disruptions to customers.

opisalerts@opisnet.com

### Hovensa's 100,000 b/d Crude Unit in St. Croix Returns to Service

After being shut June 3 to repair a boiler, Hovensa's 100,000 barrel per
day crude unit at its 495,000 barrel per day St. Croix refinery returned
to service. The refinery is the third largest in North America.

Reuters 14:11, June 7, 2005

**Update - Operational Problems Affected Crude Stills at**
**ConocoPhillips' Borger FCC Boiler in Texas**

Depressuring of crude stills was caused by operational problems at
ConocoPhillips' 145,000 barrel per day refinery, which was shut down
June 3.

Reuters 14:12, June 7, 2005

### OPEC President May Propose Increase in Output Ceiling

Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahd al-Sabah, OPEC's chief, stated that he will propose
an increase in the output ceiling of 500,000 (bpd) for the ceiling if
prices continue to rise.

Reuters 10:57, June 7, 2005

**Natural Gas**

LNG Terminals and Connecting Pipelines Between Bahamas and Florida
Questionable

Talks of one or more LNG receiving terminals and connecting pipelines
from the Bahamas to the Florida natural gas market now look doubtful.

<http://www.energyintel.com/PublicationHomePage.asp?publication_id=9>

**Florida/Bahamas LNG Project Still Scheduled**\
AES Corporation assures that the Ocean Express Pipeline and LNG project
in Florida and the Bahamas remains on track.

<http://intelligencepress.com/>

**LNG Terminal in Long Beach, CA, Up for City Council Vote**\
A \$450 million LNG receiving terminal is proposed in Long Beach, CA.

<http://intelligencepress.com/>

### Enterprise to Construct New NGL Fractionator

Enterprise Products Partners will proceed with plans to construct a new
natural gas liquids fractionator at the interconnection of the
Mid-American Pipeline System and Seminole Pipeline System in New Mexico.
The fractionator will be able to process up to 75,000 bpd of mixed NGLs.
Enterprise will also construct a "high rate purity ethane storage well
near the new fractionator." The project is expected to be operational by
mid-2007.

<http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050607/75722.html?.v=1>

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> Source: Reuters

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