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Southwest Gas to Automate Meters by ’09

After what it has characterized as a successful, targeted use of automatic meter reading (AMR) technology in remote, hard-to-access areas, Las Vegas, NV-based Southwest Gas Corp. late last month announced it intends to totally automate more than 1.7 million natural gas meters in the three principal metropolitan areas it serves in Nevada and Arizona. Southwest expects to complete the installation in 2009.

April 4, 2006

Cooling Load Cited as Most Prices Advance

Showing that significant screen weakness on the previous day is not an automatic harbinger of subsequent softness in cash numbers, prices ranged from flat to as much as 65 cents higher at nearly all points Tuesday despite a natural gas futures loss of nearly a quarter on Monday. A few Gulf Coast points softened by as much as a dime in exceptions to the overall market strength.

September 14, 2005

Reliant Energy Adds AutoNomination Service

Reliant Energy Gas Transmission is going to “let technology do all of the work” with a new Automatic Nomination Service (AutoNom) that will effectively provide “just-in-time” deliveries by automatically adjusting customers’ nominations to their actual usage.

May 15, 2000