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Natural gas and wind power will carry the future operations of Spokane, WA-based Avista Utilities for its 115,000 customers in north Idaho, although gas will account for a bigger share of the load, the utility stressed in its latest integrated resource plan (IRP) filed with state regulators. Those two sources will provide the added 272 average megawatts (aMW) that Avista estimates it will need by 2017.

Natural gas and wind power will carry the future operations of Spokane, WA-based Avista Utilities for its 115,000 customers in north Idaho, although gas will account for a bigger share of the load, the utility stressed in its latest integrated resource plan (IRP) filed with state regulators. Those two sources will provide the added 272 average megawatts (aMW) that Avista estimates it will need by 2017.

Wyoming Interstate Co. Ltd. (WIC) got the green light from FERC last Thursday to carry out an expansion of its Medicine Bow lateral that would allow Powder River Basin producers to transport more natural gas to the Cheyenne Hub in Colorado.

Wyoming Interstate Co. Ltd. (WIC) got the green light from FERC Thursday to carry out an expansion of its Medicine Bow lateral that would allow Powder River Basin producers to transport more natural gas to the Cheyenne Hub in Colorado.

The proposed Islander East pipeline, designed to carry natural gas 45 miles from Connecticut to Long Island, NY, was dealt a potentially fatal blow when a federal court set aside a U.S. secretary of commerce decision that had overruled Connecticut’s objections to the project.

The proposed Islander East pipeline, designed to carry natural gas 45 miles from Connecticut to Long Island, NY, was dealt a potentially fatal blow when a federal court set aside a U.S. secretary of commerce decision that had overruled Connecticut’s objections to the project.

The PJM Interconnection Board on Friday authorized $2.9 billion in electric transmission upgrades and additions, including two major new transmission lines that would carry electricity from the Appalachian Basin and the Midwest to power-constrained East Coast markets.

A coastal Oregon liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal project that is married to a 230-mile 36-inch-diameter pipeline to carry the supplies elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest and to California expects to make a formal filing to FERC in June. Jordan Cover LNG and the Pacific Connector Pipeline LP have nearly completed the pre-filing phase of the environmental assessment, the LNG project manager told NGI Wednesday.

El Paso Corp.’s Tennessee Gas Pipeline announced Wednesday that it plans to carry out an expansion of its Carthage Line to meet the growing natural gas needs of a power generator in Louisiana.