California

Pacific Gas & Electric issued a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Saturday on its California Gas Transmission system. Noncompliance penalties were set at $1/Dth for exceeding a 12% tolerance on positive daily imbalances.

San Francisco-based Pacific Gas and Electric Co. was ordered Thursday by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to refund $35 million to customers for unauthorized billing charges. The penalty was the stiffest among three competing proposed decisions in a case dealing with the period of 2000 through April 2005. PG&E was ordered to begin the refund process immediately.

Pacific Gas & Electric issued a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Saturday on its California Gas Transmission system. Noncompliance charges of $1/Dth were set for exceeding a 9% tolerance on positive daily imbalances.

Pacific Gas & Electric issued a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Saturday on its California Gas Transmission system.

Pacific Gas & Electric’s California Gas Transmission system issued a Stage 2 low-inventory OFO for Thursday. Penalties of $1/Dth will be assessed against customers exceeding a 5% tolerance on negative daily imbalances.

Sempra Energy’s Los Angeles-based Southern California Gas Co. announced Monday it has expanded it business energy efficiency programs, offering individual commercial/industrial (C/I) customers rebates of up to $1.2 million/customer. SoCalGas has 250,000 C/I customers.

Southern California Gas declared a high-linepack OFO for Saturday, saying it will assess Buy-Back charges in accordance with its tariff to customers who deliver more than 110% of their actual gas usage into its system on the OFO day. The LDC will lose 50 MMcf/d of injection capability at the Honor Ranch storage facility Tuesday as it retrofits first-stage unloaders on the #4 compressor unit.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors honored Sempra Energy’s Southern California Gas Co., recognizing the utility’s recent top national ranking for customer service by J.D. Power. SoCalGas ranked highest for customer satisfaction among natural gas utilities in the western United States and scored highest nationwide in the latest J.D. Power study, which determined the ranking by interviewing more than 12,000 customers. The ranking looks at six criteria: company image, price and value, communications, billing and payments, customer service, and field services. The gas utility — the nation’s largest — came out on top among all 56 large natural gas utilities in the study, the county resolution noted.

Southern California Gas declared a high-linepack OFO for Saturday, saying it would assess Buy-Back charges in accordance with its tariffs to customers who delivered more than 110% of their actual gas usage on the OFO day.