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Columbia Gas of Ohio said it had no other choice but toterminate Energy Max of Northeast Ohio from participation in itsCustomer Choice program after the gas supplier failed to delivergas to Columbia for transportation to Energy Max’s 8,000 OhioChoice customers for the majority of August. As supplier of lastresort, Columbia picked up the slack using its own natural gassupply.

Columbia Gas of Ohio said it had no other choice but toterminate Energy Max of Northeast Ohio from participation in itsCustomer Choice program after the gas supplier failed to delivergas to Columbia for transportation to Energy Max’s 8,000 OhioChoice customers for the majority of August. As supplier of lastresort, Columbia picked up the slack using its own natural gassupply.

Pacific Gas & Electric issued a customer-specificlow-inventory OFO that takes effect today.

Whitecap Energy System, a venture by Coastal Corp. and PeoplesEnergy, has begun an open season to determine customer interest inan underwater line along the western shore of Lake Michigan, fromIndiana and Illinois into southeastern Wisconsin.

After issuing several customer-specific high-linepack OFOs overthe last couple of months, Pacific Gas & Electric reverted to asystemwide Stage 2 OFO for Saturday’s gas day. The order carriedpenalties of $1/Dth for positive daily imbalances exceeding arelatively stringent 2% tolerance.

Pacific Gas & Electric issued a customer-specific OFO totake effect today. As of Tuesday morning the utility was projectingabove-target linepack levels through Friday.

Utilipro Inc., an 80% AGL Resources-owned billing and customerservice provider, announced last week it is cutting staff andreorganizing because energy deregulation is taking hold too slowly.

Utilipro Inc., an 80% AGL Resources-owned customer-caresolutions provider, announced yesterday it is cutting staff andreorganizing because energy deregulation is taking hold too slowly.

Florida Power & Light Co. says it will meet future customergrowth in this decade by increasing the electricity generatingcapability of its system by 24% using environmentally friendlynatural-gas technology.