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SoCalGas outlines programs that cut roughly 6.4 billion cubic feet of methane; pauses in 2025–27 tied to CPUC resolution
Summary
SoCalGas told a CPUC workshop that four programs — blowdown reduction, leak‑inventory acceleration, increased leak surveys and aerial monitoring — together reduced roughly 6.4 billion cubic feet of natural‑gas emissions since 2018. The company said CPUC Resolution G3605 pauses key activities for 2025–27 and it will seek reinstatement in the 2028 GRC.
SoCalGas representatives laid out four core strategies that the company says reduced roughly 6,400,000,000 cubic feet of natural‑gas emissions between 2018 and 2024. Company program and project manager Josh Stanford identified those strategies as transmission blowdown reduction, leak‑inventory reduction, accelerated leak surveys and aerial monitoring.
Stanford said the blowdown reduction toolbox — including gas capture, cross compression and drafting — alone accounted for 1,400,000,000 cubic feet of avoided emissions since 2018, and that “during 2024 calendar year, we reduced the volume of transmission pipeline blowdowns by 95%.” He described the work as cost‑effective and noted the program is authorized under the CPCU process referenced as Resolution G3605 for…
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