Sonat said it planned to implement an OFO Type 3 for sevendelivery groups Sunday and was anticipating it would beallocating/limiting interruptible capacity for the ChattanoogaGroup and North Alabama Group until further notice. Based onweather forecasts and projected demand, it is likely that the OFOand allocations will remain in effect through at least the end oftoday’s gas day, the pipeline said Friday. Nine groups on Sonat’sSouth Georgia system became subject to an OFO Type 22 Sunday.
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EISA, NEM Battle Price Caps, Re-Regulation and Lack of Supply
More power generation, more competitive choices for customersand less regulation are the keys to limiting power price increases,according to the Electric Power Supply Association (EPSA), and theNational Energy Marketers Association (NEM), which are mountingseparate attempts to diffuse growing public outrage over energyprice increases.
IPPs Battle Price Caps, Re-Regulation
More power generation, more competitive choices for customersand less regulation — not more — are the keys to limiting powerprice increases, according to independent power producers,attempting to diffuse growing public outrage over price increases.
Transportation Notes
Florida Gas Transmission began unplanned maintenance Saturday atCompressor Station 7.5 in Port Barre, LA. It is expected to lastthrough May 8 and is limiting upstream volumes to 875 MMcf/d.
CA Governor Signs Law to Restrict Unbundling
California Gov. Gray Davis has signed a bill severely limitingthe future of retail gas unbundling in the state, keeping it on aseparate, more restricted track than electricity. AB 1421 replacesa one-year ban on further gas unbundling passed last year by thestate legislature. The measure was strongly backed byinvestor-owned utilities and utility unions.
CA Governor Signs Law to Restrict Unbundling
California Gov. Gray Davis has signed a bill severely limitingthe future of retail gas unbundling in the state, keeping it on aseparate, more restricted track than electricity. AB 1421 replacesa one-year ban on further gas unbundling passed last year by thestate legislature. The measure was strongly backed byinvestor-owned utilities and utility unions (see Daily GPI, Sept.13).
Clinton May Sign Kyoto Accord as ‘Goodwill’ Token
President Clinton is expected to sign in a week or two the Kyotoagreement on limiting greenhouse gas emissions, but his action willbe seen as “more of a gesture of goodwill” to the conferencecurrently underway in Argentina further addressing the issue,according to Capitol Hill and gas industry sources. He has nointention of submitting the accord for ratification to the Senate,which is sharply opposed to it.