El Paso Natural Gas has called on FERC Chief Administrative Law Judge Curtis Wagner Jr. to take steps to prevent the further release to the media of “highly sensitive marketing materials” that it has been required to turn over as part of discovery in a complaint case brought against it.
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El Paso Seeks Protection for Sensitive Data after Leak
El Paso Natural Gas has called on FERC Chief Administrative Law Judge Curtis Wagner Jr. to take steps to prevent the further release to the media of “highly sensitive marketing materials” that it has been required to turn over as part of discovery in a complaint case brought against it.
Subpoenas Sought in El Paso Price-Manipulation Case
Southern California Edison last week asked FERC Chief Administrative Law Judge Curtis Wagner Jr. to issue subpoenas to three pipeline companies and an energy marketer in California in an effort to ferret out “other factors” — aside from those already attributed to El Paso Natural Gas — that may have contributed to the escalating natural gas prices in the state.
Subpoenas Sought in El Paso Price-Manipulation Case
Southern California Edison has asked FERC Chief Administrative Law Judge Curtis Wagner Jr. to issue subpoenas to three pipeline companies and an energy marketer in California in an effort to ferret out “other factors” — aside from those already attributed to El Paso Natural Gas — that may have contributed to the escalating natural gas prices in the state.
ALJ Favors Zones Rates for Sempra on Kern River
In a decision siding with Sempra Energy, FERC Administrative LawJudge (ALJ) Herbert Grossman last week found that postage-stamprates on Kern River Gas Transmission are “unjust and unreasonable.”Instead, he ruled in favor of a distance-sensitive zonal ratedesign, which was proposed by Sempra.
ALJ Favors Zones Rates for Sempra on Kern
In a decision siding with Sempra Energy, FERC Administrative LawJudge (ALJ) Herbert Grossman has found that postage-stamp rates onKern River Gas Transmission are “unjust and unreasonable.” Instead,he ruled in favor of a distance-sensitive zonal rate design, whichwas proposed by Sempra.
ALJ Recommends Freezing CA Border Rate
An Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) with the California PublicUtilities Commission (CPUC) has recommended the Commission approvean emergency motion by Southern California Edison to freeze theformula for avoided cost payments to qualifying facilities at theAugust rate of $4.5133/MMBtu, rather than post the September rateof $6.4567.
FERC Pushes CA ISO to Settle with Municipals
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s chief administrativelaw judge spent part of Wednesday in a telephone meeting with thegeneral manager of the nation’s largest municipal utility, tryingto bring successful closure to a two-year-old stalemate centered onCalifornia’s independent electric grid operator (Cal-ISO). Cal-ISOwould only confirm that they are in the midst of “very sensitive”negotiations, and a resolution wasn’t expected any time soon.
CA Gets 2nd Merchant Storage Project, 3rd on the Way
Setting aside vociferous local opposition from nearby propertyowners and a proposed denial from one of its administrative lawjudges (ALJ), the California Public Utilities Commission Thursdaygave the go-ahead to a proposed $80 million underground natural gasstorage field near Lodi in Northern California.
INGAA Downsizes Amid Merger Activity
The stepped-up merger frenzy of gas pipeline companies has takenits toll on the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America(INGAA), which announced Friday it was downsizing its staff inresponse to its loss of members and dues.