Duke Energy North America (DENA) will be firing up about 2,300MW of new merchant generation capacity this summer to capture someof the load growth and higher electric power prices in Texas, theMidwest and New England.
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Citizens Power Sale Surprises Traders
In a move that surprised power traders last week, Peabody Groupsold its marketing subsidiary Citizens Power to merchant powergenerator Edison Mission Energy for an undisclosed amount. CitizensPower is ranked as the eighth largest power marketer in the UnitedStates, and had trades totaling 92.3 million MWh last year. EdisonMission, based in Irvine, CA, currently only trades power in theNortheast, where it operates a 650 MW power plant in Homer City,PA. That plant serves the PJM Interconnection and New York markets.
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Due to nominations exceeding capacity, Transwestern wasallocating deliveries Wednesday to SoCal Gas at Needles, CA. About196,000 MMBtu/d in the West of Thoreau segment was affected,Transwestern said.
Mitchell to Expand Processing Plant
Mitchell Energy & Development Corp. said it will expandprocessing capacity at its Bridgeport, TX, plant northwest of FortWorth from 210 to 310 MMcf/d. The expansion will handle rapidlyrising gas supplies from accelerated drilling by the company andother producers. Daily rich gas volumes delivered to Bridgeport areexpected to increase from 205 MMcf to almost 300 MMcf during thenext three years. Likewise, gas liquids production from the plantwould increase from 19,000 b/d to more than 27,000 b/d.
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Due to nomination increases exceeding available capacity reducedby a lost engine at Station 315, Tennessee bumped flowingInterruptible services (IT-X, IT, AOT, PAT, Payback, EDS/ERS) andrestricted nominated services through Secondary (IT-X, IT, AOT,PAT, Payback, EDS/ERS, Secondary) for meters downstream of MLV 314on the 300 line effective 1700 for yesterday’s gas day.
FERC’s Madden High on Capacity Auctions
Auctions, interconnections, negotiated services and e-commerceare some of the top Order 637-related issues that FERC plans totackle, says a top Commission official.
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Reliant will limit West of Amber capacity to 360,000 Dth/d forWednesday only due to maintenance on the #3 compressor at AmberJunction Station (Grady County, OK).
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Westcoast notified shippers Wednesday that a force majeureoccurrence knocking out all processing capacity at its Pine RiverPlant had been resolved and processing was back to normal. Theplant experienced a total PLC (programmable logic controller)failure Monday afternoon, but the problem was fixed Tuesdayevening, Westcoast said.
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Unanticipated maintenance on the #3 compressor at Amber Station(Grady County, OK) is expected to limit total West of Ambercapacity to 340,000 Dth/d through Friday, Reliant said.
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El Paso will take the Dutch Flat #1 turbine down for maintenanceDec. 20-22, reducing Havasu Crossover capacity by 40 MMcf/d.