North America’s largest recycling/waste management natural gas-powered fleet cleaned up it act just a little more Friday with the opening of a new compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station in the Houston area at Conroe, TX. Waste Management said it now has five CNG-fueled collection vehicles in the Houston area, and will have an additional 35 CNG-powered vehicles by the end of this year. A public station, the Conroe fueling facility, will service Waste Management’s local fleet and sell CNG to commercial fleet operators. Waste Management operates more than 1,400 CNG vehicles, the largest fleet in North America, and a spokesperson said that for every Class 8 diesel truck the company replaces with CNG, diesel use is replaced by an average of 8,000 gallons annually, which cuts annual greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 22 metric tons. The self-service “Clean N’ Green station was built by California-based Clean Energy Fuels Corp.
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Companies Tell FERC Gas Trading, Price Reporting Cut to the Bone
Responding to an April order requiring them to show how they have cleaned up their price-reporting practices, a number of energy companies last week told FERC they either have cut back their natural gas trading to bare-bones operations or completely pulled out of the business, fired and disciplined rogue traders, and bowed out of price reporting until reforms are enacted.
Companies Tell FERC Gas Trading, Price Reporting Cut to the Bone
Responding to an April order to show how they have cleaned up their price-reporting practices, a number of energy companies told FERC they have either cut back their natural gas trading to bare-bones operations or completely pulled out of the business.
String of Pipeline Projects Wins Clearance at FERC
FERC cleaned house last week at its final regular meeting before its August hiatus, voting out a number of certificates, preliminary determinations and a Section 3 authorization for pipeline projects of Florida Gas Transmission (FGT), PG&E Transmission Northwest Corp., Colorado Interstate Gas Co. (CIG), Algonquin Gas Transmission/Texas Eastern Transmission (Tetco) and Otay Mesa Generating Co. LLC.
GreenMountain Teams Up With BP Amoco, Lycos
“Clean” energy retail marketer GreenMountain.com cleaned houselast week, attracting a $100 million investment from BP Amoco andothers, striking a marketing and energy supply alliance with BPAmoco and forming a marketing arrangement with Web powerhouseLycos.
GreenMountain Teams Up with BP Amoco, Lycos
“Clean” energy retail marketer GreenMountain.com cleaned houseyesterday, attracting a $100 million investment from BP Amoco andothers, striking a marketing and energy supply alliance with BPAmoco and forming a marketing arrangement with Web powerhouseLycos.
KN Tags Numerous Assets to be Sold, Reports Loss for 2Q
KN Energy cleaned house last week, starting with a corporate yard sale with tags on everything but the kitchen sink. It also continued the shake-up among top management that began with the sudden departure of former CEO Larry Hall last month when KN’s merger with Kinder Morgan was first announced (see NGI July 12).
