2001

California’s political, regulatory and economic landscape was altered last week by the financial earthquake from Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s bankruptcy filing on Friday in San Francisco. The bankruptcy adds a whole new dimension to the state’s continuing energy crisis, putting ever-more dire economic consequences on the electricity supply/price crunch that gripped the state since last summer.

With the FERC-ordered capacity re-assignments at the Topock, AZ, delivery points barely off the ground, El Paso Natural Gas has proposed a new plan to re-allocate shippers’ receipt point rights across its entire pipeline system in an attempt to further improve delivery and scheduling.

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Because the power system was not developed for today’s growing digital technology world, the industry faces a series of challenges to overcome its growing grid constraints. Without upgrades, “even with new power available, we won’t get it,” the strategic planner of the Electric Power Research Institute told a Houston energy audience last week.

California’s political, regulatory and economic landscape was altered last week by the financial earthquake from Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s bankruptcy filing on Friday in San Francisco. The bankruptcy adds a whole new dimension to the state’s continuing energy crisis, putting ever-more dire economic consequences on the electricity supply/price crunch that gripped the state since last summer.

With the FERC-ordered capacity re-assignments at the Topock, AZ, delivery points barely off the ground, El Paso Natural Gas has proposed a plan to re-allocate shippers’ receipt point rights across its entire pipeline system in an attempt to improve delivery and scheduling.

Because the power system was not developed for today’s growing digital technology world, the industry faces a series of challenges to overcome its growing grid constraints. Without upgrades, “even with new power available, we won’t get it,” the strategic planner of the Electric Power Research Institute told a Houston energy audience yesterday.

©Copyright, 2001 Intelligence Press. All rights reserved. Thepreceding news report may Not be republished Or redistributed, in wholeOr in part, without prior written consent of Intelligence Press .