Proposals

Backing off earlier proposals for an all in one strategy, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s administration announced Monday that the governor will be submitting a modified proposal later this week for creating a state energy department with a Cabinet-level energy secretary. The department will be centered on a revised California Energy Commission (CEC) consolidated with several other energy units — the Electricity Oversight Board and the basically inactive state Consumer Conservation Financing and Power Authority. The California Public Utilities Commission remains outside the fold.

California’s lower state legislative house Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee postponed action last week on four energy proposals, while passing out a liquefied natural gas (LNG) assessment bill and failing to approve a proposed energy agency consolidation/reorganization proposal. The LNG measure (AB 993) now moves to the Appropriations Committee.

California’s lower state legislative house Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee postponed action Monday on four energy proposals, while passing out a liquefied natural gas (LNG) assessment bill and failing to approve a proposed energy agency consolidation/reorganization proposal. The LNG measure (AB 993) now moves to the Appropriations Committee.

Against the backdrop of rapid growth in the Southeast and a plethora of request for proposals (RFP) coming from that part of the country, Calpine Corp. last week lifted the veil on a new subsidiary called NewSouth Energy LLC in order to better focus on wholesale power customers and energy markets in the South.

With four different proposals in the early, informal stages of development for siting liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals in Oregon, at least one and maybe two of the terminals eventually will be built, Michael Grainey, the head of the state energy department, told an energy conference in Seattle Thursday. He added that 140 miles of new natural gas transmission pipelines in the state helps make these proposed projects more feasible.

With four different proposals in the early, informal stages of development for siting liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals in Oregon, at least one and maybe two of the terminals eventually will be built, Michael Grainey, the head of the state energy department, told an energy conference in Seattle Thursday. He added that 140 miles of new natural gas transmission pipelines in the state helps make these proposed projects more feasible.

Municipal utility company Philadelphia Gas Works (PGW) has issued a request for proposals (RFP) from energy companies regarding plans to convert its existing Richmond Plant LNG peak shaving facility, the largest facility of its kind in the nation in terms of storage and vaporization capacity, into a full-time import terminal on the Delaware River.

Municipal utility company Philadelphia Gas Works (PGW) last week issued a request (RFP) for proposals from energy companies regarding plans to convert its existing Richmond Plant LNG peak shaving facility, the largest facility of its kind in the nation in terms of storage and vaporization capacity, into a full-time import terminal on the Delaware River.

Municipal utility company Philadelphia Gas Works (PGW) last week issued a request (RFP) for proposals from energy companies regarding plans to convert its existing Richmond Plant LNG peak shaving facility, the largest facility of its kind in the nation in terms of storage and vaporization capacity, into a full-time import terminal on the Delaware River.