The semi-independent consumer advocacy branch of the California Public Utilities CommissionThursday asked the energy regulators to deny San Diego Gas and Electric $98 million in revenues as a penalty for the utility’s alleged failure to purchase power supplies on a fixed-price, forward contracts basis between July 1, 1999 and Aug. 31, 2000. Most ofwhat the CPUC’s Office of Ratepayer Advocates (ORA) concludes were missed opportunities occurred last summer when wholesale power prices first skyrocketed in the West.
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Southwest-Oneok Merger Moving Ahead
Southwest Gas Corp., Oneok Inc. and the Office of RatepayerAdvocates (ORA), the consumer advocacy arm of the California PublicUtilities Commission (CPUC), have submitted a joint recommendationto the CPUC that the proposed merger of Southwest and Oneok beapproved.
July 22, 1999
Group Calls for Review of PG&E Plant Sale
The consumer advocacy part of the California Public UtilitiesCommission is trying to get state regulators to second guesswinning bids on the final natural gas-fired power plants PacificGas and Electric Co. auctioned last year. The auction resulted inSouthern Company being awarded three winning bids for plants in theSan Francisco Bay Area totaling 3,065 MW and using up to 50 MMcf/dof gas.
January 14, 1999
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