Administrative

A FERC administrative law judge has issued an initial opinion, dividing the allocation of generation capacity costs to interruptible load on the Entergy Corp. system into pre-1995 and post-1995 time periods to reflect Entergy’s change in its system planning in the latter period to exclude interruptible load.

FERC Administrative Law Judge Curtis L. Wagner asked parties involved in a settlement conference, which resulting from this week’s FERC order extending its power market mitigation program, to provide information to his office on a number of subjects, including a list of forward contracts, as early as today. Daily GPI June 19

A recommended decision by a California Public Utilities Commission administrative law judge would replace the controversial Residual Load Service (RLS) tariff on Southern California Gas mainlines with a cost-based peaking service (D.00-04-060).

El Paso Natural Gas is trying to head off an attempt by Chief Administrative Law Judge Curtis L. Wagner Jr. to expand the scope of a four-week-old FERC hearing, which has been confined to market-power issues so far, to include the previously-litigated allegations that the pipeline rigged bidding for transportation capacity on its system to favor its merchant-power generation affiliates.

El Paso Natural Gas is trying to head off an attempt by Chief Administrative Law Judge Curtis L. Wagner Jr. to expand the scope of a four-week-old FERC hearing — which has been limited to market-power issues so far — to include the previously-litigated allegations that the pipeline rigged bidding for transportation capacity on its system to favor its merchant-power affiliates.

A recommended decision by a California Public Utilities Commission administrative law judge would replace the controversial Residual Load Service (RLS) tariff on Southern California Gas mainlines with a cost-based peaking service (D.00-04-060).

An administrative law judge at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission last week found Oneok and two of its subsidiaries, Oklahoma Energy Marketing and Trading and Oneok Gas Storage, in contempt for their refusal to provide documentation of their gas sales. The judge recommended to the commission that the companies be fined $2,000 per day retroactive to May 8 and lasting until they comply with the commission order.

FERC Chief Administrative Law Judge Curtis L. Wagner Jr. denied Sempra Energy’s bid to quash a Commission subpoena that orders it to turn over information relevant to a hearing into possible manipulation of natural gas prices in the California market. He also ordered three Enron companies to respond to subpoenas in the case.

Chief Administrative Law Judge Curtis L. Wagner Jr. has denied Sempra Energy’s bid to quash a FERC subpoena that ordered it to turn over information relevant to a hearing into possible manipulation of natural gas prices in the California market.