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West Excess Hydro Hurts Gas Plants, Calpine Says

The excessively wet hydroelectric season in the West continues to hurt Calpine Corp.’s large fleet of natural gas-fired generation plants, Calpine senior executives told financial analysts Friday during a second quarter earnings conference call in which the large independent power company reported losses for the second quarter.

August 1, 2011

New Law Shields Illinois Gas Consumers from Misleading Suppliers

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has signed into law new measures aimed at protecting consumers from misleading sales pitches and excessively high exit fees of marketers that provide alternative natural gas service in the state.

April 20, 2009

New Law Shields Illinois Gas Consumers from Misleading Suppliers

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has signed into law new measures aimed at protecting consumers from misleading sales pitches and excessively high exit fees of marketers that provide alternative natural gas service in the state.

April 16, 2009

Transportation Notes

Westcoast ended Thursday an OFO that had been implemented two days earlier due to excessively low linepack.

September 26, 2008

Transportation Notes

Reporting that recent takes have been significantly below nominations, El Paso said it is experiencing “excessively high linepack” and that its Washington Ranch storage facility is injecting at maximum capacity. Urging shippers to bring their supplies into balance with their takes, the pipeline said that if the situation fails to improve, it may need to declare a Strained Operating Condition.

December 28, 2005