Williams Partners Receives FERC Approval for Transco Pipeline Expansion

Williams Partners WPZ today announced it 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 D 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 See full press release