Maritimes counters Repsol on primary pointrnchanges, says alternative would discriminate

摘要

A protest by a large shipper over proposed rate changes ignoresrnlongstanding FERC precedent and the expectation that rates would droprnfor all shippers, Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline countered last week.rnMaritimes responded to the protest of Repsol Energy NorthrnAmerica, which had argued that it should be able to keep its right tornmake priority point changes on a first-come, first-served basis so thatrnit could benefit from the changing dynamics on the system — namelyrnthe addition of south-to-north service that would come with Spectra’srnAtlantic Bridge expansion project (RP16-363).rnIn addition, Repsol protested Maritimes’ proposal to assign valuesrnto bids in an open season using a net present value method. Repsolrnhad worried that by being assigned a value of zero when it submittedrnbids consisting of primary point changes, it would be preempted byrnother bidders in seeking to flow south to north.