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New England power outages possible
“In the event of really cold weather, gas supplies to power generators could be curtailed if the available gas is redirected to meet residential heating load or if higher prices bid gas away from power generation uses,” CERA said in a news release.
Daily U.S. natural-gas output is about 4 percent below normal as a result of hurricane-related damage in the Gulf of Mexico and prices are more than double year-ago levels on fears that demand could outstrip supply this winter.
In the “most extreme outage scenarios,” the Independent System Operator-New England forecast that the region could be 3 percent to 7 percent short of the gas-fired electricity it would need, according to CERA.
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