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Tennessee lifted a systemwide Imbalance Warning Monday but asked customers “to match physical flow with scheduled quantities and nominate all payback requests.”

President Obama has announced his intent to nominate Jill E. Sommers to another term as member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). She was first sworn in as CFTC commissioner in August 2007. Her current term expired in April. Her second term, if confirmed by the Senate, will be for five years.

President Obama last Wednesday announced his intent to nominate John Norris, currently chief of staff for Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and a former Iowa regulator, as a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, raising questions as to whether Norris, a close Obama friend, will replace Jon Wellinghoff as FERC chairman.

President Obama has announced his intent to nominate John Norris, currently chief of staff for Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and a former Iowa regulator, as a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, raising questions as to whether Norris, a close Obama friend, will replace Jon Wellinghoff as FERC chairman.

President Obama Tuesday announced his intent to nominate Commissioner Bart Chilton for a second term on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

President Obama announced his intent to nominate Richard C. Newell, an associate professor of energy and environmental economics at Duke University, for administrator of the Energy Information Administration (EIA). He succeeds Guy Caruso, who headed up the EIA under the Bush administration. Howard Gruenspecht has served as acting EIA administrator in the interim. Newell has written widely on the economics of markets and policies for energy, the environment and related technologies, particularly alternatives for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and achieving other energy and environmental goals. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, his master’s from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School and his bachelor’s from Rutgers University.

President Bush last Tuesday signaled his intention to nominate sitting FERC Commissioner Jon Wellinghoff to a full five-year term at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

President Bush Tuesday signaled his intention to nominate sitting FERC Commissioner Jon Wellinghoff to a full five-year term at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

The White House on Friday announced its intent to nominate Arizona regulator Marc Spitzer to a five-year term on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, replacing outgoing Commissioner Nora Mead Brownell.