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California regulators have issued emergency authorization forincreased borrowing — up to $2 billion — for SouthernCalifornia Edison to help it pay the bills for this summer’s powerprice spikes.

California regulators have issued emergency authorization forincreased borrowing — up to $2 billion — for SouthernCalifornia Edison to help it pay the bills for this summer’s powerprice spikes.

Williams has filed an amendment with the Federal EnergyRegulatory Commission requesting authorization to phaseconstruction of Transco pipeline’s MarketLink project over fouryears to satisfy requests by the project shippers.

Florida Gas Transmission (FGT) has sought FERC authorization tobuild a major expansion/extension of its mainline to providenatural gas to meet the growing fuel needs of power utilities inthe state. If approved by the Commission, the project would makegas available to customers in the southwestern part of the statefor the first time.

Columbia Gulf Transmission announced it has filed a request withFERC for authorization to expand its mainline by 100,000 Dth/d toaccommodate requests of 19 shippers, 14 of which will be new to thesystem. An open season late last year for Columbia’s Mainline ’99expansion yielded requests for 315,000 Dth/d of firmtransportation, most of which will be provided with existing systemcapacity. About 12,000 Dth/d that was turned back by existingshippers also will be used to serve the new requests.