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California doesn’t have the patent on an overburdened natural gas pipeline infrastructure. The problems facing neighboring Arizona are equally, if not more, critical, state regulators contend.

It doesn’t happen very often, so we’re noting an apparentlyspontaneous comment from Dynegy Counsel Ed Ross at a FERCRoundtable last week that one of his chief competitors, Enron, “hasdone an excellent job of being competitive.” He suggested otherscould look to Enron as a “model competitor. They’ve done a verygood job of setting up a strong financial desk and a strongphysical desk and we don’t see any problem with it. I think theyhave set up their books in a way that they truly have separationbetween the regulated and unregulated aspects of their business.”

It doesn’t happen very often, so we’re noting an apparentlyspontaneous comment from Dynegy Counsel Ed Ross at a FERCRoundtable last week that one of his chief competitors, Enron, “hasdone an excellent job of being competitive.” He suggested otherscould look to Enron as a “model competitor. They’ve done a verygood job of setting up a strong financial desk and a strongphysical desk and we don’t see any problem with it. I think theyhave set up their books in a way that they truly have separationbetween the regulated and unregulated aspects of their business.”

It doesn’t happen very often, so we’re noting an apparentlyspontaneous comment from Dynegy Counsel Ed Ross at a FERCRoundtable last week that one of his chief competitors, Enron, “hasdone an excellent job of being competitive.” He suggested otherscould look to Enron as a “model competitor. They’ve done a verygood job of setting up a strong financial desk and a strongphysical desk and we don’t see any problem with it. I think theyhave set up their books in a way that they truly have separationbetween the regulated and unregulated aspects of their business.”

It doesn’t appear Louisiana is going to run out of power anytime soon. American Electric Power and Dow Chemical last weekannounced plans are going forward to construct a 900 MW naturalgas-fired cogeneration plant at Dow’s chemical complex inPlaquemine, LA, at the same time Calpine Corp. revealed it hasacquired the development rights from Cogentrix for the 500 MWWashington Parish Energy Center, located near Bogalusa.

With its system running full through most of last year, PG&EGas Transmission Northwest (GTN) doesn’t need to read the tealeaves to determine it’s time to expand. The pipeline announced anopen season beginning yesterday for a 200 MMcf/d capacityexpansion.

Customers of Cheyenne Light, Fuel and Power could be bringing inthe New Year in the dark if FERC doesn’t step in and order and theutility’s power supplier to keep the lights on past the bewitchinghour of midnight.

The name “ICE” doesn’t seem to do the white-hot trading exchangejustice, after IntercontinentalExchange, which marketsover-the-counter energy and metals products, announced it tradedmore than 2 million MWh in one day — Thursday — just one monthafter going live with its complete energy portfolio.

Vancouver-based Westcoast Energy Inc. has agreed to pay $75million to buy the 50% interest in Empire State Pipeline that itdoesn’t already own from Houston-based Coastal Corp. The deal givesWestcoast complete ownership of the 156-mile, 24-inch natural gaspipeline running along the U.S.-Canada border near Niagara Falls toSyracuse, NY interconnect points.