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But the standards board must surmount differences with electric brethren before repeating its gas industry success.
Fortnightly Magazine - April 1 2001
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But the standards board must surmount differences with electric brethren before repeating its gas industry success.

Perhaps the Gas Industry Standards Board (GISB) wants to tackle electricity because it doesn't have much else to do anymore in the area of gas standards.

But don't tell that to executive director Rae McQuaid, who can rattle off a whole host of initiatives on which the Board recently has worked that have nothing to do with electricity, including:

  • standards implementing FERC Order 637
  • procedures for ranking gas pipeline contracts
  • protocols for transferring business information.

McQuaid laughs at the thought of a GISB with nothing to do. "We have GISB meetings pretty much every day of the week, so I would hesitate to say that our work is done," she says with a tone of understatement. Most of the executive committee, as well as the subcommittees, she points out, have not been involved at all in the energy standards board discussion. "We have work to do," she assures.

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