An updated (2023) architect's rendering of PECO's gas reliability station (click for larger version)
Headquartered in Philadelphia, PECO (a subsidiary of Exelon Corp.) is Pennsylvania’s largest electric and natural gas utility, delivering power to more than 1.6 million electric customers and more than 532,000 natural gas customers in southeastern Pennsylvania. In the autumn of 2020, PECO floated a plan to build a natural gas reliability station in Marple Township (Delaware County, PA) to allow the company to distribute more natural gas into Delaware County through 11.5 miles of new natural gas main lines. The building itself (pictured) is handsome. No one would even know what it is! The PA Public Utility Commission (PUC) granted PECO's request and (of course) the project was promptly challenged in court. Commonwealth Court, normally conservative and pro-gas, has just ruled against the PUC's action instructing the state agency to take another look before granting permission to build the reliability station.
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