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Avista Grows through Alliances, Partnerships
Avista Energy will be shopping this year for gas storage in theMidwest and Northeast, and for electric generation and transmissioncapacity in the Pacific Northwest as part of an effort to bolsterits gas and power marketing portfolio, Avista President LloydMeyers said last week. “These will be necessary tools as westrengthen our competitive edge in an energy landscape thatcontinues to evolve.”
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Calpine Eyes Dow Power Plant, Gas Line
Despite a 150% increase in its gas-fired power portfolio lastyear, San Jose-based Calpine Corp. proved last week its buyingspree isn’t letting up. The company has entered into exclusivenegotiations to acquire Dow Chemical’s 70 MW natural gas-firedpower plant and a natural gas pipeline system located adjacent toDow’s chemical plant in Pittsburg, CA. The pipeline delivers gas tothe plant directly from Sacramento basin fields. Calpine sees thesite as a perfect location to add more generation capacity andcontinue to grow its position in the deregulating Californiaelectricity and gas marketplace.
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With OXY at the Helm, Elk Hills Expected to Flow More Gas
An additional 200 MMcf/d of gas could enter the Californiamarket now that the former Naval oil reserve at Elk Hills in thesouthern central agricultural valley of California is totallyprivatized, according to most of the oil/gas people in thisenergy-dominated part of the state. The new supplies would be addedto a state already experiencing a large overcapacity of interstatesupplies.
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Kahn: Regulators Should Plan for Their ‘Demise’
Noted Economist Dr. Alfred Kahn is a firm believer thatregulators ought to plan for their “demise” as they usher incompetition to monopoly industries, but he conceded last week thatthis may not be entirely conceivable in the electric utilityindustry.
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FERC Launches Internal Exam of Procedures
Fearing that it might be growing dusty and staid, FERC earlierthis month kicked off a three-month, all-encompassing review of itsprocedures and processes “to try and keep current with the times,including a very changing energy marketplace that we regulate,”Chairman James Hoecker said.
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NGC: FERC Punishment Doesn’t Fit Affiliate Crime
A leading gas marketer last week decried FERC’s reprimand ofNatural Gas Pipeline Company of America (NGPL) formarketing-affiliate improprieties as being far too light. The minoradmonishment, according to Natural Gas Clearinghouse (NGC), failedto provide adequate redress to the overall market, and to producersand marketers victimized by the Midwest pipeline’s wrongdoing.
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Tetco Wins Transportation Dispute With PSEandG
Pipelines are breathing a lot easier in the wake of a FERC orderthat said Texas Eastern Transmission (Tetco) acted reasonably whenit demanded further financial security from Public Service Electricand Gas (PSEandG) as a condition for authorization to transfertransportation contracts (worth over $3 billion in payments,according to the pipeline) to a wholly-owned subsidiary. ChairmanJames J. Hoecker said the Commission was merely clarifying itspolicy in light of this particular case, but the decision may causedistribution companies to think twice about transferringliabilities to avoid paying stranded costs.
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AGL Loses Large Buyer Discounting Privileges
The Georgia Public Service Commission has refused to approvethree industrial supply deals signed by Atlanta Gas Light becausethe LDC filed to become a part of Georgia’s competitive gas market.
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In Brief
Duke/Fluor Daniel won a contract with Ingleside Cogeneration to design and build a $210 million, 440 MW natural gas-fired cogeneration power plant near Ingleside, TX. Work started in December of last year and is expected to be completed in December 1999. The new plant will be adjacent to chemical complexes owned by OxyChem and DuPont. When complete, the plant will sell up to 235 MW of electric power and 1.1 million pounds per hour of process steam to OxyChem. The balance of electricity (205 MW) will be sold into the Texas market. Ingleside Cogeneration is a project-specific partnership between OxyChem, a unit of Occidental Petroleum, and Conoco Global Power Inc. Duke/Fluor Daniel is a partnership formed in 1989 by Fluor Daniel and a unit of Duke Energy.