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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