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Calpine announced it will purchase 35 model 7FB and 11 model 7FA gas-fired turbines from GE Power Systems, bringing its total order currently to 203 turbines, which when operated in a combined-cycle application represents 50,000 MW of baseload capacity.

Petal Gas Storage L.L.C. ate a little crow at FERC last week. Itconceded that its original proposal for expanding thedeliverability capacity serving its storage facilities was a betterplan after all.

Petal Gas Storage L.L.C. ate a little crow at FERC last week. Itconceded that its original proposal for expanding thedeliverability capacity serving its storage facilities was a betterplan after all.

California’s governor met with President Clinton in the WhiteHouse Wednesday and came away with an extension of the federalenergy secretary’s emergency order for another week, assuring thestate it can count on extra electricity supplies when needed. Thestate’s independent grid operator indicated it has been receivingabout 300 MW of power under the emergency mandate over the past twoweeks.

Pennsylvania-based PPL Corp. has recently taken on a “Go West”theme, as evidenced by its plans to build 1,800 MW of newelectricity generation on the left coast at an estimateddevelopment cost of $900 million.

Records are made to be broken, or so the saying goes. Whileprices continued to dive Friday from the Rockies/Southwesteastward, the California and Pacific Northwest markets kept revvingit like never before. Malin and the PG&E citygate hit the newall-time high mark of $61.

Pennsylvania-based PPL Corp. apparently has been watching itsfair share of westerns as it seems the company has recently takenon a “Go West” theme. This is evidenced by the company’s plans tobuild 1,800 MW of new electricity generation on the left coast atan estimated development cost of $900 million.

A popular Mark Twain quotation goes, “Everybody talks about theweather but nobody does anything about it.” Well, utilities andend-users don’t want anybody doing anything at all about theweather because it was the primary reason (again, for the umpteenthtime) for prices to return to double-digit descents Friday in mostcases.

Almost a month and a half after being excommunicated fromColumbia Gas of Ohio’s Customer Choice program for failure todeliver gas to its customers in August, Ohio marketer Energy Maxhas found itself at the epicenter of a complaint lodged by the OhioConsumers Council (OCC) in the interests of the marketer’scustomers.