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Bill would raise LNG storage threshold that triggers certificate of need from 100,000 to 1 million gallons
Summary
Representative Ben Sexton presented House File 2248 to raise the LNG storage level that triggers a Public Utilities Commission certificate-of-need from 100,000 gallons to 1,000,000 gallons, saying the change would expand utility options for small-scale storage.
Representative Ben Sexton told the committee House File 2248 would update the statute that defines “large energy facility” for liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage, raising the certificate-of-need trigger from 100,000 gallons to 1,000,000 gallons. Sexton said the change would make it more feasible for utilities to consider small-scale LNG storage as a resiliency and reliability option without altering state, local or federal permitting requirements.
Jamie Fitsky (CenterPoint Energy’s government-affairs director) and John Heer, CenterPoint’s director of storage and supply planning, testified that the certificate-of-need process is intended…
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