Lure

According to Canadian economic studies, natural gas prices have fallen far enough to justify fuel conversions of industrial engines, and a top supplier has set out to lure business consumers into making the switch on a large scale.

According to Canadian economic studies, natural gas prices have fallen far enough to justify fuel conversions of industrial engines, and a top supplier has set out to lure business consumers into making the switch on a large scale.

Calgary-based TransCanada has adopted the western Canadian’s snowbird lure to the western United States, proposing to build a 575 MW natural gas-fired simple-cycle peaking plant in the midst of the fast-growing Phoenix metropolitan area in Arizona. If the Coolidge project becomes a reality, the facility could become the first generation plant in the state to have access to both the El Paso Natural Gas and Transwestern interstate natural gas pipelines that run east-to-west through Arizona.

Here’s the opening line by the Texas Chamber of Commerce in anybids to lure West Coast business: by this summer, the completionand continued construction of new generation plants in Texas willcreate an electricity supply about 23% higher than peak demand.

Here’s the opening line by the Texas Chamber of Commerce in anybids to lure West Coast business: by this summer, the completionand continued construction of new generation plants in Texas willcreate an electricity supply about 23% higher than peak firmdemand.

Natural gas marketers, which hadn’t given the proposedgreenfield Independence Pipeline and SupplyLink expansion a secondlook in the past, have signed up for firm transportation capacityon the controversial Midwest-to-East Coast pipeline projects, withone noting the projects were more appealing this time around. Giventhis support from marketers, sponsors say they now have enoughbinding agreements to meet FERC demands and move forward with theirprojects.

Natural gas marketers, which hadn’t given the proposedgreenfield Independence Pipeline and SupplyLink expansion a secondlook in the past, have signed up for firm transportation capacityon the controversial Midwest-to-East Coast pipeline projects, withone noting the projects were more appealing this time around.