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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has asked the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs to investigate the possibility of an improper relationship between the energy industry and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission based on an exchange between FERC Chairman Curtis Hebert and Enron Chairman Ken Lay as reported in The New York Times.

Laclede Gas Co. has asked for regulatory approval from the Missouri Public Service Commission to initiate a “weather clause” that it says would protect its 633,000 natural gas customers from weather-related fluctuations in their bills and would stabilize the company’s annual revenues.

Williams last week asked FERC for the go-ahead to build a 1,000 MDth/d interconnect between its Cove Point liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Lusby, MD, and affiliate Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line.

Williams has asked FERC for the go-ahead to build a 1,000 MDth/d interconnect between its Cove Point liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Lusby, MD, and affiliate Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line.

To solve the question of where gas supplies will come from for its new generating plant in San Diego, the Otay Mesa Generating Co. has asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for authorization to build gas import facilities at the California-Mexico border to import up to 110 MMcf/d to fuel a 510 MWh station to be sited near San Diego (see NGI, Oct. 16, 2000).

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.

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.

To solve the question of where gas supplies will come from for its new generating plant in San Diego, the Otay Mesa Generating Co. LLC on Friday asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for authorization to build gas import facilities at the California-Mexico border to import up to 110 MMcf/d to fuel a 510 MWh station to be sited near San Diego (see Daily GPI, Oct. 12, 2000).

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.