Sunbury Projects Show What Natural Gas Is Accomplishing

The completion of a UGI pipeline project in Sunbury, Pennsylvania illustrates just how much natural gas is doing for Pennsylvania residents and consumers.

In December 2014 Pennsylvania utility company UGI pre-filed an application to build a new 35-mile, 20-inch pipeline to feed a natgas-powered electric generating plant being built in Snyder County, Pennsylvania. The project, called the Sunbury Pipeline, was estimated to cost $150 million–money that goes into the local economy. It took long enough, but in May 2016 the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) finally approved the project. UGI broke ground on the project in August. Here it is December, and the Sunbury Pipeline is done and expected to go live in January. That’s just the beginning of the good news.

The new Hummel Station natural gas fired electric plant is not yet done, and won’t be until 2018. So, why would the Sunbury Pipeline go live? Because it will not only feed Hummel, it will also supply UGI’s Central Penn system, a local gas utility that will now provide cheap, clean-burning Marcellus Shale gas to residents and businesses in the region, according to StateImpactPA.

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