The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending March 5th indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US fell by 52 billion cubic feet to 1,793 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 257 billion cubic feet, or 12.5% below the 2,050 billion cubic feet that were in storage on March 5th of last year, and 141 billion cubic feet, or 7.3% below the five-year average of 1,934 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 5th of March in recent years..the 52 billion cubic feet that were drawn out of US natural gas storage this week was less than the average forecast of a 65 billion cubic foot withdrawal from an S&P Global Platts survey of analysts, and was also less than 72 billion cubic foot withdrawal from natural gas storage seen during the corresponding week of a year earlier, and less than the average withdrawal of 89 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been pulled out of nat
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On March 11, 2021, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission voted to take additional steps toward returning to pre-COVID-19 pandemic procedures for collecting amounts due for public utility service in Pennsylvania.
2 As of April 1, 2021, existing commission-ordered restrictions on service terminations will be lifted in favor of modified rules for payment arrangements that allow customers to pay their arrearages over extended periods. These commission-ordered modifications will remain in effect through December 31, 2021, when they will expire and pre-pandemic procedures will once again control the collection process.
BACKGROUND
3 that generally prohibited regulated
4 Pennsylvania electric, natural gas, water, wastewater, telecommunications, and steam utilities (the affected utilities) from terminating customers’ service during the COVID-19 pandemic emergency. By order entered October 13, 2020, (October order),
HARRISBURG â The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has approved a measure requiring the stateâs utilities to modify their collection policies to offer extended payment plans to help those with past-due utility bills.
The measure, approved by the commission on March 11, applies to all PUC-regulated electric, natural gas, water, wastewater, telecommunications and steam utilities.
Depending on their income level, consumers will be able to obtain a repayment plan of 1, 2 or up to 5 years to address their arrearage, according to the commission.
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Public Utility Commission Chairwoman Gladys Brown Dutrieuille introduced the motion, noting that public health and financial factors are still impacting consumers, businesses and utilities across the state, including continued COVID-19 infections, unemployment, and substantial past-due balances for utilities.
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WEATHER
Hope you enjoyed the weekend, because the next couple of days are bringing the chill. Expect it to be sunny today, but the temperature will top out at just 46 degrees.
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NEWS
Delaware County officials put 1,500 Moderna COVID-19 vaccines in the arms of county residents at Upper Darby High School Sunday. The pop-up clinic, organized in just days, was the largest single-day distribution at one location to date in the county. Last weekend, the county distributed 1,000 at its Aston clinic site. The high school gymnasium was converted on short notice to a clinic by the County Emergency Services, the Delaware County Citizens Corps, the Medical Reserve Corps and Upper Darby School District. This comes as counties around Philadelphia have complained to Gov. Tom Wolf and state officials of being shorted an equitable number of vaccines as compared to other regions in the state.