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Taking steps to ensure Nevada does not fall prey to the”financial and operational chaos” of the California energy market,Sierra Pacific Resources introduced an emergency package ofproposed long-term contracts, tiered price increases, low incomeassistance and conservation programs to stabilize energy markets inNevada.

Taking steps to ensure Nevada does not fall prey to the”financial and operational chaos” of the California energy market,Sierra Pacific Resources introduced an emergency package ofproposed long-term contracts, tiered price increases, low incomeassistance and conservation programs to stabilize energy markets inNevada.

El Paso Natural Gas “is willing to expand its system” to the California border if “sufficient support” for such a project can be demonstrated through long-term capacity contracts, the pipeline told FERC last week.

Responding to a California power market gone haywire andteetering on the brink of operational and financial disaster, FERCFriday issued a series of remedial measures, virtually strippingthe Cal-PX and Cal-ISO of their control of the market and callingmarket stakeholders together to negotiate bilateral forwardcontracts.

Responding to a California power market gone haywire and teetering on the brink of operational and financial disaster, FERC Friday issued a series of remedial measures, virtually stripping the Cal-PX and Cal-ISO of their control of the market and calling market stakeholders together to negotiate bilateral forward contracts.

Today began with one more operational cross-border natural gaspipeline in place than there was last month, as Coral Energy andMexico-based Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) announced yesterday thecompletion of their 104-mile pipeline linking the Pemex pipelinesystem at Arguelles in the Mexico state of Tamaulipas, with Coral’spipeline system on the King Ranch in South Texas.

Northwest continued to bar any on-system balancing or bankingMonday, saying its operational flexibility was “severely limited”by storage accounts being almost full.

Kinder Morgan Interstate Gas Transmission (KMI) has attempted anend run around FERC’s Order 637, filing wide-ranging operationaland rate changes early under expedited tariff procedures to avoidthe more rigorous review in store for compliance filings, accordingto customer protests.

California regulators approved a settlement last week dealingwith Pacific Gas and Electric’s imbalance procedures andoperational flow orders (OFO). The California Public UtilitiesCommission (CPUC) however, did not act on the much tougher issuesincluded in the proposed interim and comprehensive settlementsfiled earlier this year by Southern California Gas.