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What are "leak-prone" distribution pipes?
LPP replacement
How much LPP is out there?
Source: PHMSA49K miles
All pipes
14% of all pipes are getting replaced
LPP
7.3K miles
How long to replace 100%?
Source: PSC filings
$43B total
$1.6B / year
paid by ratepayers
What's the cost in National Fuel territory?
105 miles / year
$925M by 2036
Next 11 years
x $800K / mile
= $84M / year
Can we avoid all this LPP replacement?
An alternative to LPP replacement
What can we decommission?
Source: PSC filings
assumption: 30% of miles can be decommissioned
What's cost effective?
Source: PSC filings
How much cheaper is it?
Where cost effective, it costs $14,000 less
to give households heat pumps + insulation
than replacing the LPP that serves them.
Where is it cost-effective?
- RG&E
- NYSEG
- Central Hudson
- Orange & Rockland
- Con Edison
- National Fuel
Electrification cheaper
LPP cheaper
- National Grid - Upstate
- National Grid - Long Island
- National Grid - NYC
* on average, cheaper in some parts
*
Targeted electrification in NY
- Electrify 327K households
- Ratepayers pay $4.6 billion less by 2050
= 6% of all gas-heated households
If we allow utilities to avoid LPP replacements when electrification is cheaper...
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