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As part of a proposed expansion, El Paso Natural Gas Co. (EPNG) is conducting a dual binding open season to solicit shipper commitments for firm transportation capacity from the El Paso Permian Basin system’s Keystone Pool to a new power plant that Southwestern Public Service Co. is constructing at its Hobbs, NM, power complex.

Wisconsin’s Consumer Utility Board (CUB) most likely will challenge a dual rate increase that Xcel Energy filed last Wednesday with state regulators, seeking 13.3% and 6.5% rate hikes for its retail utility electricity and natural gas service in the state. The Minnesota-based utility is seeking to have the rate increase in place by Jan. 1 next year.

With shareholder approval, Royal Dutch Petroleum and Shell Trading & Transport officially merged on Tuesday, ending a dual corporate structure that had lasted more than 100 years.

Southern Power, a subsidiary of Southern Co., has signed a purchase and sale agreement with Constellation Energy to purchase a 680 MW, dual-fueled simple-cycle generating plant in Cocoa, FL, for $206 million.

Dual proposals by Michigan Consolidated Gas (MichCon) to lower commodity costs and raise distribution charges will in the long run increase monthly gas bills for the typical residential customer by 7% on an annualized basis.

Dual proposals by Michigan Consolidated Gas (MichCon) to lower commodity costs and raise distribution charges will in the long run increase monthly gas bills for the typical residential customer by 7% on an annualized basis.

Great Lakes Gas Transmission experienced a rupture Friday morning on one of its dual pipelines downstream of the Crystal Falls (MI) Compressor Station. Gas flow on the parallel line was shut in immediately but restored that afternoon. Repair of the ruptured line is under way, Great Lakes said Monday. It continues to implement operational arrangements with interconnecting upstream and downstream pipelines in order to maintain firm delivery commitments.

The nation’s largest municipal utility, the City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), has the dual challenge this month of streamlining its natural gas-buying abilities to conform with a new city charter and also adapting to a new general manager following the departure of the high-profile S. David Freeman, who now heads up California’s new state power authority. Freeman’s plans to take interests in pipelines or production have been placed on the back-burner due to favorable transportation and commodity prices right now, a department source said.

For a change Pacific Gas & Electric had more gas in itssystem than it wanted. The dual utility had a systemwide Stage 3high-inventory OFO with zero tolerance for positive dailyimbalances in effect Monday but did not extend the order intotoday.