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Natural Gas Highlights 

• Equitrans placed into service its West Uprate and Blacksville Compressor Expansion Project. This project will provide 

uprated pressure on several of Equitran’s pipeline segments and provide 100 MMcf/d of capacity on its H-515 pipeline 

system near Sedalia, WV.

• Tennessee Gas requests authorization to construct and operate its Broad Run Expansion Project which would provide 

200 MMcf/d of capacity for one shipper from WV, KY, and TN to markets in the southeastern U.S.

• Regency Field Services requests authorization to operate the existing Beaver Residue Line located in Beaver County, 

OK as an interstate pipeline which would provide 100 MMcf/d of capacity from the Beaver processing plant to an 

interconnection with Southern Star pipeline.

• Texas Eastern commenced the Commission’s pre-filing process to construct and operate its Appalachian Lease

Project which would provide 950 MMcf/d of capacity from production in the Appalachian Basin region to markets in the 

Midwest via a lease of the capacity to NEXUS Gas Transmission.

• Algonquin and Maritimes & Northeast commenced the Commission’s pre-filing process to construct and operate its 

Atlantic Bridge Project which would provide 222 MMcf/d of capacity for six shippers from receipt points with Algonquin 

in Bergen County, NJ to markets in the Northeast.

• Enterprise withdrew its request to commence the Commission’s pre-filing process to construct and operate its NMT 

Pipeline Project which would have provided 750 MMcf/d of capacity from a proposed processing plant in Eddy 

County, NM to an interconnection with existing pipelines at the Waha Hub in Pecos County, TX. 

Natural Gas Activities in January 2015

Status No. of 

Projects

Storage 

Capacity 

(Bcf)

Deliverability 

(MMcf/d)

Capacity 

(MMcf/d)

Miles of 

Pipeline

Compression 

(HP)

Pipeline

Placed in Service 1 100.0 0.0 9,470

Certificated 0 0.0 0.0 0

Proposed 4 1,472.0 53.2 187,751

Storage

Placed in Service 0 0.0 0.0 0

Certificated 0 0.0 0.0 0

Proposed 0 0.0 0.0 0

LNG (Import & Export)

Placed in Service 0 0 0 0

Certificated

(Import/Export) 0 0 0 0

Proposed (Export) 0 0 0 0

 Source: Staff Database

Natural Gas Activities through January 31, 2015

Through January 31, 2014

Status No. of 

Projects

Storage 

Capacity 

(Bcf)

Deliverability 

(MMcf/d)

Capacity 

(MMcf/d)

Miles of 

Pipeline

Compression 

(HP)

Pipeline

Placed in Service

through January 31, 2014

1

0

100

0

0

0

9,470

0

Certificated

through January 31, 2014

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Storage

Placed in Service

through January 31, 2014

0

2

0

0.45

0

0

0

4,800

Certificated

through January 31, 2014

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0
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Status No. of 

Projects

Storage 

Capacity 

(Bcf)

Deliverability 

(MMcf/d)

Capacity 

(MMcf/d)

Miles of 

Pipeline

Compression 

(HP)

LNG (Import & Export)

Placed in Service

through January 31, 2014

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Certificated (Import/Export)

through January 31, 2014

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

 Source: Staff Database

Hydropower Highlights (nonfederal)

There were no hydropower activities this month.

Electric Generation Highlights

• Basin Electric Power Cooperative’s 90 MW natural gas-fired Lonesome Creek Station Phase II expansion project 

in McKenzie County, ND is online. Lonesome Creek now has a total capacity of 132 MW.

• ALLETE Inc.’s 204 MW Bison Wind Phase IV expansion project in Oliver County, ND is online. Bison Wind now 

has a total capacity of 496 MW, making it the largest wind farm in ND. The power generated is sold to Minnesota 

Power under long-term contract.

• Keechi Wind LLC’s 110 MW Keechi Wind Farm project in Jack County, TX is online. The power generated is sold 

to Microsoft Corp. under long-term contract.

• Akuo Energy USA Inc.’s 95 MW Rocksprings Wind Farm in Val Verde County, TX is online.

• Four Mile Wind Energy LLC’s 40 MW Four Mile Ridge Wind project in Garrett County, MD is online. The power 

generated is sold to Delmarva Power & Light Co. under long-term contract.

• Headwaters Wind Farm LLC’s 200 MW Headwaters Wind Farm project in Rudolph County, IN is online. The 

power generated is sold to Indian Michigan Power Co. under long-term contract.

• Consolidated Edison Development Inc.’s 19.5 MW Oak Tree Energy Wind project in Clark County, SD is online. 

The power generated is sold to NorthWestern Energy South Dakota under long-term contract.

• BNB Texas Solar LLC’s 32 MW Barilla Solar Phase II project in Pecos County, TX is online. Barilla Solar now has a 

total capacity of 50 MW. 

• Dominion Resources Inc.’s 20 MW RE Kansas Solar project in Kings County, CA is online. The power generated is 

sold to Pacific Gas & Electric Co. under long-term contract.

• NJR Clean Energy Ventures’ 10 MW Howell Solar project in Monmouth County, NJ is online.

• Forever 21 Clothing Co.’s 5 MW Forever 21 Solar project in Los Angeles County, CA is online. Forever 21 Solar is 

now the largest single-rooftop solar power system in Los Angeles County and the third-largest in California.
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January 2015 January 2014

Primary Fuel Type No. of 

Units

Installed Capacity 

(MW)

No. of 

Units

Installed Capacity 

(MW)

Coal 0 0 0 0

Natural Gas 2 90 0 0

Nuclear 0 0 0 0

Oil 0 0 0 0

Water 0 0 0 0

Wind 5 470 7 235

Biomass 0 0 9 13

Geothermal Steam 0 0 3 30

Solar 5 70 28 343

Waste Heat 0 0 0 0

Other 0 0 2 1

Total 12 630 49 622

Installed Capacity (GW) % of Total Capacity

Coal 326.28 27.87%

Natural Gas 493.94 42.20%

Nuclear 106.87 9.13%

Oil 46.04 3.93%

Water 98.39 8.41%

Wind 65.66 5.61%

Biomass 16.10 1.38%

Geothermal Steam 3.87 0.33%

Solar 11.45 0.98%

Waste Heat 1.13 0.10%

Other 0.81 0.07%

Total 1,170.55 100.00%

New Generation In-Service (New Build and Expansion)

Total Installed Operating Generating Capacity

Sources: Data derived from Ventyx Global LLC, Velocity Suite and The C Three Group LLC

Sources: Data derived from Ventyx Global LLC, Velocity Suite and The C Three Group LLC
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Electric Transmission Highlights

• The Bureau of Land Management issued a Record of Decision that approved SunZia’s application for a right-of-way 

across federally owned property. SunZia is a 500 kV interstate transmission line connecting NM and AZ. It will be 

approximately 500 miles long and is expected to be completed in 2020. 

• Deepwater Wind is on track to be the first offshore windfarm in the United States. It is located 3 miles off of Block 

Island in RI. The 30 MW windfarm is expected to be completed in fall of 2016.

Transmission Projects Completed Proposed Transmission Projects

In-Service by January 2017

Voltage 

(kV)

January 

2015

January 

2014

January – December 

2014 Cumulative

High Probability 

of Completion All

Line Length (miles)

≤230 0.0 46.8 641.6 4,071.7 7,383.3

345 0.0 143.3 1,489.8 3,325.1 5,897.9

≥500 0.0 0.0 62.0 2,515.3 8,633.6

Total 

U.S. 0.0 190.1 2,193.4 9,912.1 21,914.8

Sources: Data derived from Staff Database and U.S. Electric Transmission 

Projects ©2014 The C Three Group, LLC

Disclaimer: This Report contains analyses, presentations and conclusions 

that may be based on or derived from the data sources cited, but do not 

necessarily reflect the positions or recommendations of the data providers. 

All Transmission Projects with a Proposed 

In-Service Date by January 2017

Transmission Projects with a High Probability of 

being completed by January 2017

New Transmission Projects by Voltage