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NERC Predicts Smooth Sailing This Winter

With 5,900 MW of new mostly gas-fired generation capacity comingonline this winter across the United States, the North AmericanElectric Reliability Council concluded in its latest WinterAssessment that “electric resources will be adequate” to meetprojected electricity demand.

November 30, 2000

Bulls vs. Bears: Call it a Tie Thursday

With little in the way of fresh fundamental news, natural gasfutures traded mostly sideways yesterday as traders rested after atumultuous 10 days of trading activity. A modest gain in the promptmonth was more than offset by losses in each of the out months.November finished up 0.5 cents at $4.664 while the 12-month stripclosed 1.6 cents lower at $4.313.

October 27, 2000

Cross Bay Sponsors Asked to Defend Pipe Project

FERC last week directed the Cross Bay Pipeline Co. L.L.C. torespond to a series of questions mostly focusing on the East Coastproject’s byzantine financial and capacity-lease arrangements thathave prompted protests from customers.

October 23, 2000

West Again Mostly Higher in Face of Overall Softening

Once again several western points defied the overall downwardtrend of the cash market Tuesday. Most eastern quotes ranged 2-3cents to either side of down a nickel, but Rockies/San Juan andNorthern California increases went as high as a dime-plus.

October 18, 2000

FERC OKs ICAP Rebates for Utilities Serving NYC

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week handedload-serving entities (mostly electric utilities) that supply theNew York City power market a present — a targeted rebate of $3.75per kilowatt month.

October 16, 2000

FERC OKs Rebates for New York City Utilities

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission yesterday handedload-serving entities (mostly electric utilities) that serve theNew York City power market a present — a targeted rebate of $3.75per kilowatt month.

October 12, 2000

Prices Mostly Flat But Mixed With Big Gains, Losses

The cash market was a mix of ups and downs as far as priceaverages went Thursday, but sources agreed that the overall trendwas downward as trading proceeded through the morning. Flat quotesdominated again at many points, while sizeable gains and losseswere scattered.

October 6, 2000

Holiday Prices Mostly Softer But With Some Increases

The cash market went quietly into the Labor Day weekend Friday,registering prices that ranged from flat to down about a dime inmost cases, but sprinkled with scattered upticks (concentrated inthe West) and a Southern California border crash to break up thepattern.

September 5, 2000

August Begins Mostly Flat to Indexes, Down From July

The August aftermarket began Monday with prices down a dime ormore from the last day of July in most cases, except for slightgains at a few western points. In comparison to where they expectedAugust indexes to be, several sources said swing gas for today wasflat in general but slightly lower at some eastern points.

August 1, 2000

Cash Market Settles Down to Mostly Flat Trading

The cash market appears to have decided to take it easy at leasttemporarily. Tuesday’s activity remained relatively subdued, andfew points strayed much further than 2-3 cents to either side offlat.

July 12, 2000