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In the second year of a five-year, multi-billion-dollar transformation, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) is seeking state regulatory approval to upgrade its newly developing smart metering system that the utility is bidding to spread throughout its customer base for both electric and natural gas customers. PG&E asked Jan. 17 for approval from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which meets this Thursday.

In the second year of a five-year, multi-billion-dollar transformation, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) is seeking state regulatory approval to upgrade its newly developing smart metering system that the utility is bidding to spread throughout its customer base for both electric and natural gas customers. PG&E asked last Thursday for approval from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which meets next at the end of this month.

There are major misunderstandings about FERC’s newly acquired power line backstop siting authority, and they can be cleared up by looking at what the federal regulation process has been for 60 years in interstate natural gas pipeline siting, Chairman Joseph Kelliher told a meeting of state regulators Nov. 12 in Anaheim, CA. Kelliher addressed the electricity committee at the annual meeting of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC).

There are major misunderstandings about FERC’s newly acquired power line backstop siting authority, and they can be cleared up by looking at what the federal regulation process has been for 60 years in interstate natural gas pipeline siting, Chairman Josephn Kelliher told a meeting of state regulators Monday in Anaheim, CA. Kelliher addressed the electricity committee at the annual meeting of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC).

Falcon Gas Storage Co. Inc. subsidiary NorTex Gas Storage Co. LLC started flowing gas through its newly constructed Worsham-Steed Pipeline, the company said Monday.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) and a newly formed unit of Portland, OR-based Northwest Natural Gas Co. jointly announced last Wednesday they are planning to develope a new 20 Bcf underground natural gas storage facility at Gill Ranch near Fresno in the northern end of California’s central San Joaquin Valley.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. and a newly formed unit of Portland, OR-based Northwest Natural Gas Co. jointly announced Wednesday they will pursue the development a new 20 Bcf underground natural gas storage facility at Gill Ranch near Fresno in the northern end of California’s central San Joaquin Valley.

Responding to proposals from the newly empowered national power reliability experts, FERC late Friday approved eight new standards for the Western Interconnection, the nation’s grid west of the Mississippi River, in effect continuing certain reliability practices that are currently effective throughout the western grid. Proposed standards from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) were found to be more stringent than national standards, the federal regulators concluded.

A newly licensed technology from inventors at the Los Alamos National Laboratory promises to sharply lower the costs of gas liquefaction while also making liquefaction an option to oil producers around the world that typically flare their associated natural gas.