In responses to pleas it heard earlier in the month from the nonprofit social service sector, the California Public Utilities Commission Thursday approved added protection for qualified low-income utility customers against this winter’s expected high natural gas costs. The CPUC made significant changes to two of the state’s major low-income customer programs.
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FERC Rejects Pleas to Put Maritimes’ Phase IV Expansion Project on Hold
FERC has said it will continue to process Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline LLC’s application to add 385 MDth/d of capacity to its system in Maine and Massachusetts even though the project it would serve — EnCana Energy Services Inc.’s Deep Panuke natural gas development project offshore Nova Scotia — has been put on hold for a year.
FERC Rejects Pleas to Put Maritimes’ Phase IV Expansion Project on Hold
FERC has said it will continue to process Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline LLC’s application to add 385 MDth/d of capacity to its system in Maine and Massachusetts even though the project it would serve — EnCana Energy Services Inc.’s Deep Panuke natural gas development project offshore Nova Scotia — has been put on hold for a year.
El Paso: All Systems Clear at Its End for Service Conversion on May 1
Responding to pleas for either a deferral or stay of systemwide contract conversion on its pipeline, El Paso Natural Gas said last week that “for the record” it is prepared to switch full requirements (FR) service to contract demand (CD) service by the FERC-ordered deadline of May 1, and under the terms outlined by the agency last September.
El Paso: All Systems Clear at Its End for Service Conversion on May 1
Responding to pleas for either a deferral or stay of systemwide contract conversion on its pipeline, El Paso Natural Gas says that “for the record” it is prepared to switch full requirements (FR) service to contract demand (CD) service by the FERC-ordered deadline of May 1, and under the terms outlined by the agency last September.
DOE Orders Long Island-to-CT Power Line Into Emergency Service
Responding to pleas from the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA), the U.S. Department of Energy last Friday issued an emergency order directing Cross Sound Cable Co. to temporarily operate a 24-mile, 330 MW underwater cable system linking Connecticut to Long Island. The DOE said that activation of the cable will alleviate the emergency supply situation caused by the area’s recent heat wave.
CA Officials Hoping to Recoup Power Charges from Gas Refunds
Unsatisfied with the response to their pleas for electricity refunds, California officials took some solace in federal regulatory indications that there may be as much as a billion dollars in refunds to the state because of alleged natural gas border-price manipulations in the 2000-2001 time frame.
Bidding on El Paso Turned-Back Capacity Closes Despite Pleas for Extension
Bidding for turned-back capacity on El Paso Natural Gas came to a close at 8 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) Friday, despite a last-minute plea by a group of full-requirements (FR) shippers for FERC to postpone the closing deadline, and a challenge by California regulators and utilities to El Paso’s decision to give FR shippers preferential access to the capacity. The bidding was seen as a critical first step in the FERC-ordered plan to convert all of the FR shippers on El Paso to contract-demand (CD) service by Nov. 1 of this year, and end a years-long dispute over the disparate manner in which capacity has been allocated on the pipeline.
Bidding on El Paso Turned-Back Capacity to End Friday Despite Pleas for Extension
Bidding for turned-back capacity on El Paso Natural Gas by full-requirements (FR) shippers will come to a close Friday, despite a last-minute plea by a group of FR shippers for FERC to postpone the deadline, and a challenge by California regulators and utilities to El Paso’s decision to give FR shippers preferential access to the capacity. The bidding is seen as a critical first step in the FERC-ordered plan to convert all of the FR shippers on El Paso to contract-demand (CD) service by Nov. 1 of this year, and end a years-long dispute over the disparate manner in which capacity has been allocated on the pipeline.
Western Lawmakers Still Look to White House for Relief
Congressional lawmakers from California and other western statesrenewed their pleas for aid from the Bush administration to end thepower crisis in their region during a House subcommittee hearinglast week.