Comply

As a promotional and lobbying gesture, Mitsubishi Corp.-backed Sound Energy Solutions (SES) committed late Tuesday that its proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in Long Beach, CA, harbor will meet all of the new LNG safety standards released earlier in the month by the federal Department of Transportation (DOT). The new rules, however, won’t require any change in design or plans for the receiving terminal, said SES’s Long Beach-based chief executive Tom Giles.

As a promotional and lobbying gesture, Mitsubishi Corp.-backed Sound Energy Solutions (SES) committed late Tuesday that its proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in Long Beach, CA, harbor will meet all of the new LNG safety standards released earlier in the month by the federal Department of Transportation (DOT). The new rules, however, won’t require any change in design or plans for the receiving terminal, said SES’s Long Beach-based chief executive Tom Giles.

Duke Energy said last week that it intends to comply with a subpoena it received from a Western District of North Carolina grand jury. The grand jury is seeking documents related to last year’s audit of subsidiary Duke Power’s financial and regulatory reporting from 1998 to 2000 by North Carolina and South Carolina utilities commissions (see Power Market Today, Nov. 20, 2002).

American Electric Power (AEP) on Friday said it would “fully comply” with an informal data request from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) asking the company to voluntarily provide documents related to “round-trip” or “wash” trades. A number of other companies have previously confirmed receiving similar informal requests from the SEC.

Citing its failure to comply with certain environmental requirements, FERC staff has denied Petal Gas Storage LLC’s request to proceed with the construction of a 59-mile, 36-inch pipeline and associated facilities that would connect its expanding storage facilities in Hattiesburg, MS, with three interstate gas pipelines.

Citing its failure to comply with certain environmental requirements, FERC staff has denied Petal Gas Storage LLC’s request to proceed with the construction of a 59-mile, 36-inch pipeline and associated facilities that would connect its expanding storage facilities in Hattiesburg, MS, with three interstate gas pipelines.

Despite being re-ordered by the Federal Energy RegulatoryCommission to comply with a Dec. 15 decision, California’s lameduck wholesale spot power market, the California Power Exchange(Cal-PX), continued Monday to resist recalculating its daily priceauctions since Jan. 1, pointing instead toward a Feb. 7 courthearing in a case it has brought against the FERC imposition of a$150/MWh price cap in the federal DC Court of Appeals.

In an effort to comply with Executive Order 13123, which statesthat government agencies must cut energy use 30% by 2005 and 35% by2010, based on 1985 emission levels, Goodfellow Air Force Baselocated in San Angelo, TX, has entered a 15-year energy savingsagreement with Sempra Energy Solutions (SES).

Northern Border Pipeline has amended its Project 2000 extensionagain, but this time it’s goal is to comply with the “no subsidy”requirement of FERC’s new policy statement on new pipelineconstruction..