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Whole home generators are all the rage here in Louisiana, especially when the power goes out.
Unfortunately, they’re taking a toll on natural gas supplies.
Public Service Commissioner Mike Francis says during Hurricane Francine, people in a subdivision in Thibodaux overloaded the city’s natural gas infrastructure.
“When the storm came through, the lights went out, all the generators went on, and we didn’t have enough gas pressure in the main system to keep all the generators going,” says Francis.
Francis says improving the natural gas infrastructure is going to take money – money that gas customers will need to help out with.
“In order to enhance our reliability in the infrastructure of gas lines and supply, we’re all going to have to pay — each one of us — a little bit to make sure that we build a reliable system,” Francis says.
Francis says other utilities have strengthened their infrastructures – now it’s time for natural gas to do the same thing.
“We’re building a more reliable system with electricity by strengthening the grid,” says Francis, “and we’re going to have to do the same thing with natural gas.”
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