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1 Gas/Electric Coordination OPSI Annual Meeting October 12, 2015 Asim Z. Haque Vice-Chairman Public Utilities Commission of Ohio

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3 EPA’s Clean Power Plan Building Block #1 Increasing Efficiency of Coal-Fired Generation Building Block #3 Increasing Use of Renewable & Nuclear Facilities Building Block #2 Dispatch Existing and Under Construction Natural Gas Combined Cycle (NGCC) Units to up to 75% Capacity Factor

4 “Despite more natural gas, LNG and storage, there were just as many, if not more, restrictions issued by the pipelines…. On the morning of Feb. 20, forced outages from gas issues totaled 7,420 MW, or 29.9 percent of total forced outages. In comparison, at the Jan. 7, 2014, peak, 9,300 MW of gas- fired capacity was out of service because of natural gas unavailability, or about 25 percent of the total outages.” Source: PJM 2015 Winter Report p.6 No Incident ≠ Reliability

5 Coldest Days: 2014 vs. 2015 Forced Outage Causes Source: PJM 2015 Winter Report p.21

6 Remedies FERC Gas/Electric Optimization Gas Electric PJM/Pipeline MOU Capacity Performance

7 New England Mass. DPU order paves way for electric utilities to file for firm capacity on pipes –www.snl.com, Oct. 5,2015 New Hampshire PUC clears way for electric utilities to own gas pipeline capacity –www.utilitydive.com, Sept. 18, 2015 Mass. order on pipeline contracts could echo through New England –www.snl.com, Oct. 7, 2015

8 Recommendation 2: LDC Generators = Catalyze the Discussion Recommendations Recommendation 1: Pipeline Generators = Wait


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