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Calgary-based Enbridge Inc. last week reported the “best” quarterly results in company history, but the company doesn’t plan to rest on its laurels. Future growth, said CEO Patrick Daniel, will be more balanced between liquids pipeline projects and increasing opportunities in natural gas and renewable energy.

Wall Street has a closer eye on the nation’s energy utility sector and the kind of state regulation impacting it, and so far in the new year it doesn’t necessarily like what it sees, according to John Bohn, a member of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) who recently returned from a week-long series of conferences and meetings with financial analysts in New York City.

Calgary-based Enbridge Inc. on Wednesday reported the “best” quarterly results in company history, but the company doesn’t plan to rest on its laurels. Future growth, said CEO Patrick Daniel, will be more balanced between liquids pipeline projects and increasing opportunities in natural gas and renewable energy.

Calgary-based Enbridge Inc. on Wednesday reported the “best” quarterly results in company history, but the company doesn’t plan to rest on its laurels. Future growth, said CEO Patrick Daniel, will be more balanced between liquids pipeline projects and increasing opportunities in natural gas and renewable energy.

Claiming aggressive energy efficiency results, Spokane, WA-based Avista Utilities doesn’t think it will need added natural gas supplies for its three-state Pacific Northwest utility operations until at least 2018-19. This was one of the bottom line conclusions of the combination utility’s 2009 gas Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) released Dec. 31, but it also includes a number of action steps as a hedge against complacency regarding both price and supply.

Claiming aggressive energy efficiency results, Spokane, WA-based Avista Utilities doesn’t think it will need added natural gas supplies for its three-state Pacific Northwest utility operations until at least 2018-19. This was one of the bottom line conclusions of the combination utility’s 2009 gas Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) released last Thursday.

Stepped-up regulation at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is a good thing and Sempra Energy doesn’t see its joint venture energy trading business being adversely affected by whatever emerges from the current regulatory debate, Sempra CEO Don Felsinger and CFO Mark Snell said during an earnings conference call Friday. “It’s probably going to be fine for us,” Snell said.

When it comes to index pricing of liquefied natural gas (LNG) around the world, East doesn’t meet West, and that’s not likely to change, according to John Hattenberger, president of Gazprom Marketing & Trading, the U.S. arm of Russia’s OAO Gazprom.

When it comes to index pricing of liquefied natural gas (LNG) around the world, East doesn’t meet West, and that’s not likely to change, according to John Hattenberger, president of Gazprom Marketing & Trading, the U.S. arm of Russia’s OAO Gazprom.