October 2014, Vol. 241, No. 10
Government
FERC's Moeller Presses Online Gas Trading Platform; Industry Unenthusiastic
FERC “pipeline” Commissioner Phillip Moeller held a workshop Sept. 18 to explore the possibility of the commission, on its own or through a third party, establishing an online trading platform for the nomination and confirmation of pipeline deliveries of natural gas. The proposal was made at a technical conference in April by Don Sipe, a Maine attorney, on behalf of the American Forest and Paper Association. That workshop examined operational and resource issues in the gas and electric industries arising from last winter’s polar vortex. Sipe served two terms as chair of the New England Power Pool and for over a decade was vice chair of NEPOOL for the end use se

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