Backfires

SDG&E Gets Authority to Sign Bilateral Deals

The California Public Utilities Commission Thursday tookadditional action to build backfires against retail electricityprice shock by authorizing San Diego Gas and Electric to inkbilateral power supply deals outside of the state (Cal-PX)wholesale spot electricity market. In anticipation of CPUC action,SDG&E earlier had released a request for proposals, and willmost likely repeat that action, according to officials with SempraEnergy, SDG&E’s parent company.

September 22, 2000

El Paso’s Attempt to Clarify Allocation Plan Backfires

A team of El Paso Natural Gas executives took the opportunityyesterday to explain in detail to their transportation customersthe pipeline’s new capacity-allocation proposal, but many left theFERC technical conference more bewildered than when they arrived.

March 10, 2000