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February 16, 2021 3:54 PM Stacie Strader
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ALTAMONT, Kan. – The City of Altamont updates residents on issues with the natural gas supply due to extreme cold weather.
The City of Altamont held a public meeting this evening, also streaming it live on Facebook. (City of Altamont Facebook, watch Video here).
According to Altamont Chief of Police Michael Shields, Southern Star cut the city’s gas supply at 7:00 a.m. this morning. “The City is pulling from our gas reserves to help offset this. We do not have information as to how we will be affected tomorrow,” states Shields. He’s urging residents to conserve both gas and electric and continue to prepare for gas supply loss, “Our reserves are limited and will not last forever.”
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A pedestrian walks through the snow in McKinney, Texas, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. The energy crisis crippling the U.S. showed few signs of abating Tuesday as blackouts left almost 5 million customers without electricity, while refineries and oil wells were shut during unprecedented freezing weather. Credit: Cooper Neill
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Texas’ electric grid nearly melted down in the summer of 2019, when searing temperatures sent electricity demand soaring.
The state’s grid operator was able to keep the lights on, but many observers were worried. They wondered if Texas power plants would be able to match the rising demand, driven largely by residents reaching for the dial on their air conditioning units.
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The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending February 5th indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US fell by 171 billion cubic feet to 2,518 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 9 billion cubic feet, or 0.4% below the 2,527 billion cubic feet that were in storage on February 5th of last year, and 152 billion cubic feet, or 6.4% above the five-year average of 2,366 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 5th of February in recent years..the 171 billion cubic feet that were drawn out of US natural gas storage this week was a bit less than the average forecast of a 175 billion cubic foot withdrawal from an S&P Global Platts survey of analysts, but way more than the 121 billion cubic foot withdrawal from natural gas storage seen during the corresponding week of a year earlier, and also more than the average withdrawal of 125 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have ty