The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is being asked to expedite the reissuance of a certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company to construct and operate the Northeast Supply Enhancement Project, a natural gas project.
The Project will enable Transco to provide 400,000 dekatherms per day of incremental firm transportation capacity from Transco’s Compressor Station 195 in York County, Pennsylvania to Transco’s offshore Rockaway Transfer Point, an existing interconnection between the Lower New York Bay Lateral and the Rockaway Delivery Lateral in New York State waters, to serve residential and commercial customers in the New York City area.
On May 3, 2019, FERC issued an Order Issuing Certificate, as amended, authorizing Transco to construct and operate the Northeast Supply Enhancement Project.
“The Commission explicitly found strong market demand for the Project and, based on the benefits the Project would provide and the minimal adverse impacts on landowners and surrounding communities, held the ‘public convenience and necessity requires approval of the [P]roject,’” Transco said in its May 29 filing at FERC.
“Transco was -- and still is -- committed to the NESE Project,” Transco said.
However, it said that denial of Transco’s Clean Water Act Section 401 applications by New York and New Jersey prevented Transco from constructing the Project.
“Nonetheless, strong market demand still exists for the Project, and with renewed interest in the additional firm transportation service, reliability, and delivery enhancement offered by the Project, Transco has re-engaged in discussions with officials in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.”
Transco is also engaged in negotiations with the Project Shippers to reinstate the precedent agreements subscribing to the full capacity of the Project, it noted.
It also said that President Trump’s executive orders Declaring a National Energy Emergency and Unleashing American Energy “make clear that agencies, including FERC, have been directed to support infrastructure development, particularly in the northeastern United States where the NESE Project will enhance reliability, flexibility, and efficiency on a critical part of Transco’s system and provide access to crucial supplies of natural gas. Prompt reissuance of the certificate for the NESE Project would accomplish many of the goals of the President’s executive orders.”
Transco is seeking expedited action from FERC on this request by August 29, 2025, so that it can start construction on the Project by the end of the year.
