Sabal Trail Gas Transmission Pipeline

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Sabal Trail Gas Transmission Pipeline is an operating natural gas pipeline.

Location

The pipeline runs from Alexander City, Alabama, to Reunion, Florida.

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Project Details

• Operator: NextEra Energy, Enbridge, Duke Energy
• Current capacity: 1.1. billion cubic feet per day
• Proposed capacity:
• Length: 516 miles / 830 km
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: 2017

Background

Sabal Trail includes approximately 516 miles of interstate natural gas pipeline (86 miles in Alabama, 162 miles in Georgia, 268 miles in Florida) and, initially, at least two compressor stations at the beginning and end of the pipeline system. A total of five stations along the pipeline will be constructed by 2021. The pipeline will be capable of transporting one billion cubic feet per day or more of natural gas to serve local distribution companies, industrial users and natural gas-fired power generators in the Southeast markets.

Sabal Trail Transmission, LLC (“Sabal Trail” is a joint venture of Spectra Energy Partners, NextEra Energy, Inc. and Duke Energy and Duke Energy of Florida ("DEF").

The pipeline entered commercial operation in June 2017.

FERC ruling on GHG emissions

In August 2017 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that FERC failed to adequately consider climate impacts before approving the project. In February 2018 FERC completed a supplementary review of the pipeline's impact and found that it would cause a 3.6 to 9.9 percent increase over Florida's 2015 emissions. FERC has declined to set a standard for what constitutes "significant" impact on climate change, and in March 2018 FERC by a 3-2 vote reauthorized the pipeline.