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A study of North American natural gas markets topped the wish list of 11 potential study projects proposed by the Energy Department (DOE) for the National Petroleum Council (NPC) at the council’s annual meeting Wednesday in Washington.

Commonwealth Edison Co. has requested waivers and authorizations from FERC to allow a number of its industrial and commercial customers with on-site generation to sell excess power to the utility during summer peak demand periods without first obtaining Commission approval.

Commonwealth Edison Co. has requested waivers and authorizations from FERC to allow a number of its industrial and commercial customers with on-site generation to sell excess power to the utility during summer peak demand periods without first obtaining Commission approval.

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).

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).

On the heels of a federal judge refusing to force stateregulators to grant immediate rate relief, Southern CaliforniaEdison Tuesday faced some of its major creditors in a conferencecall, looking for more of the same forbearance that generators sofar have extended the cash-starved utility and thesimilarly-situated Pacific Gas and Electric Co.

The cure and the illness in California’s electricity crisisshared the spotlight Wednesday as the state finished its whirlwind27-hour, sealed-bid power auction and the state’s third majorinvestor-owned utility appealed to state regulators for a five-yearsurcharge and a $100 million cash-conservation program to avoid thefinancial torpor of its two larger fellows private-sectorutilities.

A top-level FERC staffer last week asked El Paso Natural Gas toconsider switching its Line 2000 crude-oil conversion from areplacement project to an expansion of its existing system to easepipeline capacity constraints to the California border.

A key FERC staffer this week asked El Paso Natural Gas toconsider switching its Line 2000 crude-oil conversion from areplacement project to an expansion of its existing system to easepipeline capacity constraints to the California border.