Months

About four months after FPL Group announced its intentions topurchase Entergy Corp. for $13.9 billion, the companies reported thatthey have jointly filed an application with the Federal EnergyRegulatory Commission for approval of the union which would create thelargest utility in the nation (see Daily GPI, Aug. 1).

After five months of use and $100 million in gas purchases,Procter & Gamble (P&G) concluded EnergyGateway.com’snatural gas marketplace works like charm.

Almost five months after Procter & Gamble (P&G)announced it intended to use EnergyGateway.com’s natural gasmarketplace to acquire gas supply for all of its manufacturingfacilities in the United States and Canada, the branded companylabeled its online experience a success.

Just three months after Houston-based Dynegy announced it wouldenter the North American wholesale broadband communicationsbusiness, it now is storming into Europe with a deal to buyLondon-based iaxis Ltd., a cash poor fiber optic network operator.

Almost four months after its scheduled date, Maine Natural Gas(MNG), a joint venture between the CMP Group and Energy East, begandelivery of natural gas yesterday to Calpine Corp.’s new 540 MWelectric generating facility located in Westbrook, ME. The companyalso began supplying the University of Southern Maine (USM) andparts of Gorham, ME.

Calpine Corp. is planning to sell 400 MW on a fixed-price basisfor 30 months to Pacific Gas and Electric Co. in the firstbilateral electricity deal for a California utility sinceregulators agreed to allow such transactions in the wake of thesummer’s wholesale price and supply problems.

Calpine Corp. is planning to sell 400 MW on a fixed-price basisfor 30 months to Pacific Gas and Electric Co. in the firstbilateral electricity deal for a California utility sinceregulators agreed to allow such transactions in the wake of thesummer’s wholesale price and supply problems.

AGL Resources Inc. has closed on its $533 million acquisition ofVirginia Natural Gas, more than two months ahead of schedule andprior to the start of the winter heating season.

California lawmakers and regulators — testifying in a publicsession two months before the general election — heaped the blamefor the state’s skyrocketing power prices on the Federal EnergyRegulatory Commission.