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El Paso Natural Gas has called on FERC Chief Administrative Law Judge Curtis Wagner Jr. to take steps to prevent the further release to the media of “highly sensitive marketing materials” that it has been required to turn over as part of discovery in a complaint case brought against it.

El Paso Natural Gas has called on FERC Chief Administrative Law Judge Curtis Wagner Jr. to take steps to prevent the further release to the media of “highly sensitive marketing materials” that it has been required to turn over as part of discovery in a complaint case brought against it.

Southern California Edison last week asked FERC Chief Administrative Law Judge Curtis Wagner Jr. to issue subpoenas to three pipeline companies and an energy marketer in California in an effort to ferret out “other factors” — aside from those already attributed to El Paso Natural Gas — that may have contributed to the escalating natural gas prices in the state.

Southern California Edison has asked FERC Chief Administrative Law Judge Curtis Wagner Jr. to issue subpoenas to three pipeline companies and an energy marketer in California in an effort to ferret out “other factors” — aside from those already attributed to El Paso Natural Gas — that may have contributed to the escalating natural gas prices in the state.

In a decision siding with Sempra Energy, FERC Administrative LawJudge (ALJ) Herbert Grossman last week found that postage-stamprates on Kern River Gas Transmission are “unjust and unreasonable.”Instead, he ruled in favor of a distance-sensitive zonal ratedesign, which was proposed by Sempra.

In a decision siding with Sempra Energy, FERC Administrative LawJudge (ALJ) Herbert Grossman has found that postage-stamp rates onKern River Gas Transmission are “unjust and unreasonable.” Instead,he ruled in favor of a distance-sensitive zonal rate design, whichwas proposed by Sempra.

Producers are jumping the gun by asking FERC to step in and decide the “merits” of a controversial complaint that seeks to overhaul the capacity-allocation and scheduling procedures on El Paso Natural Gas, contend East-of-California (EOC) shippers on El Paso.

An Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) with the California PublicUtilities Commission (CPUC) has recommended the Commission approvean emergency motion by Southern California Edison to freeze theformula for avoided cost payments to qualifying facilities at theAugust rate of $4.5133/MMBtu, rather than post the September rateof $6.4567.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s chief administrativelaw judge spent part of Wednesday in a telephone meeting with thegeneral manager of the nation’s largest municipal utility, tryingto bring successful closure to a two-year-old stalemate centered onCalifornia’s independent electric grid operator (Cal-ISO). Cal-ISOwould only confirm that they are in the midst of “very sensitive”negotiations, and a resolution wasn’t expected any time soon.