Here’s a challenge to a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) pipeline certificate we don’t fully comprehend. In 2018 the Panda Hummel Marcellus-fired power plant in Snyder County, PA roared to life (see Marcellus-Fired Panda Hummel Electric Plant Roars to Life in PA). Panda Hummel is one of the largest coal-to-gas conversion projects in the country, constructing a large 1,124-megawatt Marcellus gas-fired electric plant on the site of a retired coal-fired plant near Shamokin Dam in Snyder County. The plant is fed by a 34.4-mile pipeline built and maintained by UGI, called the Sunbury Pipeline (see UGI Ready to Begin Flowing Gas via $150M Sunbury Pipeline in PA). The Sunbury Pipeline was permitted under and is overseen by FERC. Yet now Panda Hummel is trying to rescind FERC’s authority over the pipeline, seeking to get the pipeline’s certificate to operate revoked. Why?
