Reduction of energy deliveries because of shortage of supply or shortage of pipeline capacity. Also called Operational Flow Orders (OFO's).
An event or amendment to a pension plan that significantly reduces plan benefits or employer contributions. Types of curtailments include a reduction of the expected years of future service of present employees, and the elimination of the accrual of defined benefits for some or all of the future services of a significant number of employees.----------[ Back
the reduction of expenditures in order to become financial stable
an approved tariff that allows a utility company to request customers to reduce water consumption when the demand is greater than the production
a significant reduction in plan benefits that can result when a defined benefit pension plan is amended or restructured
A situation in which a transporting pipeline, in order to meet firm sales and/or transport obligations, restricts deliveries of interruptible gas. A curtailment could be total or partial (e.g. a 20% reduction in deliveries). Likewise, a curtailment could be system wide or localized.
A reduction in gas deliveries or gas sales necessitated by a shortage of supply.
A temporary, mandatory load reduction under emergency conditions taken after all possible conservation and load management measures, and prompted by problems of meeting baseload rather than an upswing or peak.
Temporary suspension, partial or complete, of gas deliveries to a customer or customers because of a projected or actual supply or pipeline-capacity constraint.
A plan to reduce deliveries during a short-term emergency for balancing a utility's natural gas requirements with its natural gas supplies
A reduction in gas delivery service or sales lower than the agreed upon contracted level.
Reducing deliveries of gas or electricity below contract entitlement due to system restrictions.
A notice issued by a utility to a customer with interruptible service to stop or reduce the use of its product (gas or electricity) during peak system usage periods.
Reduction of deliveries of natural gas.
Curtailment of gas service is a method to balance a utility's gas requirements with its natural gas supply, typically during extremely cold weather. Usually there is a hierarchy of customers for the curtailment plan. A customer may be required to partially cut back or totally eliminate their take of gas depending on the severity of the shortfall between supply and demand and the customer's position in the hierarchy. Customers who can be curtailed are called interruptible customers. These customers are required to have an alternate fuel source in case of interruption, and they receive a discount on the price they pay for gas.
