Anniversary

Marking his one-year anniversary as CEO of El Paso Corp., Doug Foshee said last week that the company is “well down the road on fundamentals,” and today is focusing on its strategic natural gas pipeline franchise and revamped exploration and production (E&P) unit.

Marking his one-year anniversary as CEO of El Paso Corp., Doug Foshee said Tuesday that the company is “well down the road on fundamentals,” and today is focusing on its strategic natural gas pipeline franchise and revamped exploration and production (E&P) unit.

Just days away from the one-year anniversary of the historic Aug. 14, 2003 blackout, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) last week called for the creation of a new federal agency with the authority to develop and enforce reliability standards for the grid. He also released a new report that he says shows that the electricity grid remains exposed to further blackouts.

As Ontario approaches the one-year anniversary of a significant blackout that hit the province and large swaths of the United States and eastern Canada on Aug. 14, 2003, the province appears less at risk now for experiencing a similar type of outage, said David McFadden, who represents Canada in the electric system working group for the Canada-U.S. joint task force that has been examining last year’s historic blackout.

As the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks draws near, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has proposed changes to its current regulations that would restrict “unfettered general public access” to information about critical energy infrastructure, but still would allow “those with a need for the information,” such as parties to proceedings at FERC, to obtain it.

As the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks draws near, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has proposed changes to its current regulations that would restrict “unfettered general public access” to information about critical energy infrastructure, but still would allow “those with a need for the information,” such as parties to proceedings at FERC, to obtain it.

The Ohio Public Utility Commission approved Monongahela Power’selectric transition plan on the one year anniversary of the dayOhio’s electric restructuring bill took effect.