Gas Pipelines Submit Rate Changes for Quick Review
Published Date: 6/5/2025
Notice
Summary
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission got a bunch of new filings from natural gas pipeline companies about their rates and refunds. These changes mostly affect pipeline customers and could change how much they pay starting as soon as May 30, 2025, or July 1, 2025. If you want to speak up, you’ve got until early to mid-June to comment on these updates.
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Pipeline Rate Filings Could Change Charges
If you are a natural gas pipeline customer, filings submitted to FERC could change how much you pay starting as soon as May 30, 2025, or on June 1, 2025, or July 1, 2025 (some filings list those exact effective dates). Multiple companies (see dockets RP25-916 through RP25-928) submitted rate, negotiated-rate, fuel, or refund filings.
Deadlines to Comment or Intervene
If you want to intervene or protest any listed filing, you must file by 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on the docket-specific comment date: generally June 10, 2025, or June 11, 2025 (the notices list comment dates of 6/10/25 and 6/11/25 for the various dockets).
FERC Office Offers Help With Filings
FERC's Office of Public Participation can help members of the public — including landowners, community organizations, and Tribal members — access information and make filings like interventions or comments; contact OPP at (202) 502-6595 or [email protected].
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