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The management of California’s independent grid operator(Cal-ISO) is searching for ways to correct market flaws identifiedlast month by its market surveillance committee, which spread blamearound to utilities, regulators, generators and the Cal-ISO itselfin the wake of the summer price/supply crunch. A suggested responseby Cal-ISO staff was submitted Sept. 28 to the grid operator’sboard of governors.

The management of California’s independent grid operator(Cal-ISO) is searching for ways to correct market flaws identifiedlast month by its market surveillance committee, which spread blamearound to utilities, regulators, generators and the Cal-ISO itselfin the wake of the summer price/supply crunch. A suggested responseby Cal-ISO staff was submitted Sept. 28 to the grid operator’sboard of governors.

Four stakeholder committees set up last March by the New YorkPublic Service Commission (PSC) have identified the key roadblocksin the state’s stalled retail energy deregulation process. By nextspring, they expect to have some solutions – if it isn’t too late.

Four stakeholders committees, set up last March by the PublicService Commission (PSC), have now identified the issues in thestate of New York’s stalled retail deregulation process forelectric power and natural gas, and by next spring they expect tohave some solutions — if it isn’t too late.

Tennessee reported Tuesday it had identified a minor valve leakon its 200 Line #2 near Main Line Valve 259 (West Granville, MA).Adverse weather is preventing repairs temporarily, Tennessee said,but it expects to make them Thursday. No nominations or schedulingcuts are anticipated before repairs begin, the pipeline said, butit may be required to limit meters downstream of Station 254 toprimary services for Thursday’s gas day.

Enron North America Corp. was identified yesterday as the buyerof Columbia Energy Group’s wholesale marketing and trading arm. Thedeal is expected to boost Enron’s wholesale gas sales volumes tomore than 16 Bcf/d and move its power sales above 410 millionMWh/year, according to year-end 1998 volumes reported by bothcompanies. And although Columbia won’t be rolling in the doughafter this one, it will be relieved of a business that has been aheadache for years.

The 35,000 MW of power generation that already has beenidentified to be sold in the next 18 months is not just a one-timefluke in the power market. It’s the beginning of a process thatwill continue for years to come, according to Siemans Corp.’s DavidL. Hartman, director of corporate development.