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Saying its storage pools are full and customers are overdelivering gas into its system, Dominion has implemented an OFO to protect its system integrity. The order affects all customers under Rate Schedules FT, FTNN, IT and MCS.

Pacific Gas & Electric extended into Sunday a Stage 4 high-inventory OFO that had been implemented Saturday. Tolerance for positive imbalances was tightened to 5% Sunday but penalties were left unchanged at $25/Dth. No OFOs were in effect for Monday or today.

Pacific Gas & Electric extended into Sunday a Stage 3 high-inventory OFO that had been implemented Saturday, then expanded it Monday into a Stage 4 OFO with greatly increased penalties of $25/Dth for positive imbalances exceeding a 1% tolerance. No OFO was in effect Tuesday, but the utility reinstituted a Stage 3 order for today with $5/Dth penalties and an 8% tolerance.

In a move that marks the first recommendation of President Bush’s national energy policy to be implemented since the plan was recently unveiled, Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham last Wednesday directed the DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy to undertake a strategic review of its energy efficiency research and development programs.

In a move that marks the first recommendation of President Bush’s national energy policy to be implemented since the plan was unveiled last week, Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham yesterday directed the DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy to undertake a strategic review of its energy efficiency research and development programs.

The Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) has extended its ColdWeather Rule emergency order and implemented a moratorium onservice disconnections for natural gas and electric service throughMay 31. The order provides emergency relief for customersstruggling to pay utility bills resulting from the record-breakingnatural gas prices this winter.

Effective today, Sonat is canceling an OFO Type 3 that wasimplemented last Friday for five groups on its system (see Daily GPI,Dec. 28). An OFO Type 22 that began lastSaturday for nine groups on Sonat’s South Georgia facilities (seeDaily GPI, Dec. 29) was lifted Thursday.

Atlanta Gas Light Co. has implemented a seasonal rate plan timedto roll out during its February 2001 billing cycle by its naturalgas marketers. The plan, approved by the Georgia Public ServiceCommission, would make billing follow traditional winter and summerusage patterns.

MRT is lifting today a System Protection Warning that had beenimplemented Tuesday (see Daily GPI, Dec. 12).