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Williams Gets Green Light for Transco Pipeline Expansion Project
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Williams Partners L.P. has received Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approval to expand Transco, the nation’s largest natural gas pipeline system, to provide service to a customer’s new, gas-fired, power-generation plant in Virginia.
A unit of Dominion plans to construct the 1,358-megawatt facility in Brunswick County, Va., to replace generating capacity from retiring coal-fired plants.
The approximately $300 million Transco Virginia Southside Expansion is designed to provide 270,000 dekatherms per day (dth/d) of incremental transportation capacity in Virginia and North Carolina by September 2015. Of the total expanded capacity, more than 90 percent will serve Dominion Virginia Power’s new power plant; the remainder will servePiedmont Natural Gas Company’s (PNY)…
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