The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently gave Williams, a natural-gas-infrastructure provider, approval to advance its Leidy South Project.
The project will transport natural gas from Pennsylvania’s Marcellus and Utica regions east.
The natural gas will be produced by Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. and Seneca Resources Co., and local distribution company UGI Utilities will provide the gas to customers in northeast Pennsylvania.
The project is expected to provide enough natural gas to serve the equivalent of more than 2.5 million homes and will create 582,400 dekatherms of additional pipeline capacity. In addition, it will enable power plants to convert from coal to cleaner-burning natural gas.
“As the United States switches to clean power to energize our electric grids, Williams is excited and proud to be the backbone that connects the best supplies of dry gas with our country’s largest demand centers,” Alan Armstrong, Williams president and CEO, said. “This project represents one of many opportunities to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions with right here, right now available solutions as coal-fired electric generation plants are replaced with natural gas units to reliably balance the intermittency of new renewable resources. In fact, there remain more than 80 coal plants in the states (interstate natural gas pipeline system) Transco serves that can potentially be displaced by clean, efficient, and affordable natural gas.”