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Citing forecasts indicating that freezing temperatures would be moving into Florida Wednesday night and this morning, and noting that its overall linepack was lower, Florida Gas Transmission declared an Overage Alert Day notice Wednesday for its market area. The notice carried a 15% tolerance for negative daily imbalances.

While indicating a majority will back suspension of the state’s retail direct access, California regulators last Wednesday indicated they will delay taking action on the controversial measure until July 3 at the request of the state Assembly speaker, who is looking at some legislative options that involve the retail customer choice issue. That is the latest the decision can be held off without beginning to impede the current schedule for the state’s upcoming long-term electricity bond issue, according to Loretta Lynch, president of the California Public Utilities Commission.

While indicating a majority will back suspension of the state’s retail direct access, California regulators Wednesday indicated they will delay taking action on the controversial measure until next Tuesday at the request of the state Assembly speaker, who is looking at some legislative options that involve the retail customer choice issue. That is the latest the decision can be held off without beginning to impede the current schedule for the state’s upcoming long-term electricity bond issue, according to Loretta Lynch, president of the California Public Utilities Commission.

Indicating how border-less the global economy is becoming,Kansas and Idaho have begun a regulatory partnership with CentralAmerica to promote energy interests.

A published news report indicating that the Department of Energy(DOE) has entered into discussions with FERC over the merits ofconstructing the East-bound Independence Pipeline is false, theCommission and DOE said.

Despite the study by the Mid-America Interconnected Network(MAIN) last month indicating that power supplies in the Midwesthave greatly improved over last year, there are some who aren’tquite ready to write off the possibility of a recurrence of pricespikes for the region this summer.