FERC Staff Gives Thumbs Up to TETCO’s Athens Compressor Rebuild

Back in July, we told you about Texas Eastern Transmission's (TETCO) Athens Compressor Station in Athens County, Ohio, tripping offline with an "unplanned outage" — at the very same time TETCO was asking FERC for permission to rip out the station's four aging turbines and replace them with two new ones (see TE Compressor Trips Offline in Ohio While FERC Weighs Replacement). We noted then that FERC had promised an environmental assessment (EA) by November 6. FERC delivered, right on the dot. And the news is good. FERC staff concluded that approving the Athens Optimization Project "would not constitute a major federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment." Translation: no significant impact. Even better, the EA finds the rebuilt station will be cleaner, quieter, and safer than the one running today.

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