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New Jersey’s largest publicly owned utility has asked stateregulators to give it the green light to begin selling natural gasat market-based rates in 2003.

In a refreshing change of pace, Duke Energy’s Texas EasternTransmission Corp. (TETCO) asked FERC last week for a system-widerate reduction — yes, reduction — of about $137 millionannually for its interstate pipeline customers.

In a refreshing change of pace, Duke Energy’s Texas EasternTransmission Corp. (TETCO) asked FERC yesterday for a system-widerate reduction — yes, reduction — of about $137 millionannually for its interstate pipeline customers.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry J. Hyde (R-IL), whothis summer asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigatepotential price gouging in the gasoline market, has now called onthe agency to investigate whether collusion by producers may havetriggered the escalation in natural gas prices.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry J. Hyde (R-IL), whothis summer asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigatepotential price gouging in the gasoline market, has now called onthe agency to investigate the escalation in natural gas prices.

In another emergency step to alleviate summer peak electricdemand, San Diego Gas & Electric asked state regulators lastweek for some relief on its natural gas transmission system byallowing the intermittent switching to oil of two major naturalgas-fired power plants serving SDG&E customers.

As another emergency step related to summer peak electricdemand, San Diego Gas & Electric asked state regulators lastweek for some relief on its natural gas transmission system byallowing the intermittent switching to oil of two major naturalgas-fired power plants serving SDG&E customers.

PNM, or Public Service Company of New Mexico, has asked stateregulators to accept a negotiated settlement raising rates 3.7% forresidential customers and 7% for larger customers and resolving ayears-long dispute that has wound its way through two regulatorycommissions and the state supreme court.

In an effort to recover escalating gas costs, PPL Utilities ofAllentown, PA, has asked Pennsylvania regulators to increase thegas supply charge for customers served by its two gas distributors- PFG Gas Inc. and North Penn Gas Co.