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Joining its sister Sempra Energy utility in San Diego, Los Angeles-based Southern California Gas Co.(SoCalGas) reached out to the low-income segment of its nearly 6 million-meter customer base Wednesday to urge customers who qualify to apply for a 20% discount on future monthly retail utility bills.

Sempra Energy’s Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) unit intends to employ its new 45.5-mile pipeline in the high desert northeast of the Los Angeles Basin to meet the growing energy demand from the expanding town of Twenty-Nine Palms, CA, and its nearby U.S. Marine Training Base. SoCalGas will not integrate the pipeline into its larger backbone transmission pipeline system, a spokesperson told NGI.

Sempra Energy’s Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) unit intends to employ its new 45.5-mile pipeline in the high desert northeast of the Los Angeles Basin to meet the growing energy demand from the expanding town of Twenty-Nine Palms, CA, and its nearby U.S. Marine Training Base. SoCalGas will not integrate the pipeline into its larger backbone transmission pipeline system, a spokesperson told NGI.

Sempra Energy’s Los Angeles-based Southern California Gas Co. announced Monday it has expanded it business energy efficiency programs, offering individual commercial/industrial (C/I) customers rebates of up to $1.2 million/customer. SoCalGas has 250,000 C/I customers.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors honored Sempra Energy’s Southern California Gas Co., recognizing the utility’s recent top national ranking for customer service by J.D. Power. SoCalGas ranked highest for customer satisfaction among natural gas utilities in the western United States and scored highest nationwide in the latest J.D. Power study, which determined the ranking by interviewing more than 12,000 customers. The ranking looks at six criteria: company image, price and value, communications, billing and payments, customer service, and field services. The gas utility — the nation’s largest — came out on top among all 56 large natural gas utilities in the study, the county resolution noted.

For a fourth consecutive year, the oversight board for Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) has approved another one-year, $1.795 million contract with Southern California Gas Co. for underground natural gas storage services to help the nation’s largest municipal utility manage its fuel supplies for a fleet of gas-fired generation plants in the greater LA metropolitan area. The contract requires city council and mayoral approval.

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) missed a special meeting Tuesday of its oversight board but hopes to get approval in the next few weeks for a public power consortium’s pre-paid natural gas supply contract. A source close to the arrangement that was brokered by a public power financing arm, the Southern California Public Power Authority (SCPPA), said LADWP is taking more time than previously anticipated to get the deal approved.

For a fourth consecutive year, the oversight board for Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) has approved another one-year, $1.795 million contract with Southern California Gas Co. for underground natural gas storage services to help the nation’s largest municipal utility manage its fuel supplies for a fleet of gas-fired generation plants in the greater LA metropolitan area. The contract requires city council and mayoral approval.

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), a major purchaser of wholesale natural gas supplies in the West, is still considering taking the lion’s share of a massive 20-year gas supply pre-pay deal that a consortium of public sector utilities in Southern California hopes to have Goldman Sachs structure for them, according to a LADWP executive.