Thursday, April 2, 2015

Catalina Island Propane (Liquefied Petroleum Gas)

SCE serves 1,325 commercial and residential gas customers in Avalon (as contrasted with about 2,400 electricity customers and 1,900 water customers), delivering gas through 6.5 miles of underground distribution pipes. The gas production facilities are located at the Pebbly Beach Gas Plant in Avalon.



Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), in the form of propane, is delivered to Catalina by barge. The LPG is heated and vaporized to change it from liquid to gas, then mixed with air and inserted into the underground distribution system supplying customers in Avalon and Pebbly Beach Village. Driving much of the increase in SCE’s gas costs is the replacement of the 30-year-old gas vaporization plant.

(Application of SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY for Authority to, Among Other Things, Increase Its Authorized Revenues For Electric Service in 2009, And to Reflect That Increase In Rates, before the PUC of the State of California, Date of Issuance March 17, 2009, p. 43.)

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