Natural Gas T&D

Discussion Paper for Natural Gas Transmission & Distribution

The California Registry is currently working on developing an entity-level protocol for the natural gas transmission & distribution sector. The natural gas transmission and distribution (T&D) reporting and verification protocol will provide entity-wide guidance to natural gas T&D companies for identifying GHG sources, measuring, and calculating emission levels, reporting GHG inventories, and verifying emission reports. The users of this protocol will be interstate and intrastate natural gas transport companies.

The California Registry has begun stage two of the protocol development process, the California Registry has formed a stakeholder workgroup that will review and comment on the paper and transform it into the protocol. The workgroup includes industry representatives, state and federal agency personnel, NGOs, and expert consultants. The California Registry expects to complete the natural gas T&D protocol by early 2008.