Prospective

Iroquois Gas Transmission is the latest pipeline to ask FERC to delay its certificated expansion projects by more than a year because prospective shippers — mostly power companies — have decided to either terminate or defer their service requirements.

The name of prospective FERC nominee, Joseph T Kelliher, surfaced several times in the energy task force documents that the Department of Energy (DOE) was forced to release last week under court order, which could further spoil his chances of being appointed to the Commission.

Staff at the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) has urged state regulators to reject the pending merger between FirstEnergy Corp. and GPU Inc. on the grounds that the two companies have failed to back up claims that the merger will not harm ratepayers in the Garden State, among other things.

Utility convergence continues, with talks under way for aprospective new utility merger between New Jersey’s Public ServiceEnterprise Group and Ohio’s Cinergy Corp., according to Wall Streetreports.

A funny thing happened on the way to the FERC: prospectiveshipper Duke Energy defected, but Dynegy quickly filled in the gapas the proposed new long-haul Independence and Supplylink pipelineprojects re-formed their ranks and marched toward this week’s openmeeting.

A funny thing happened on the way to the FERC last week: prospective Independence and SupplyLink shipper Duke Energy defected, but Dynegy quickly filled in the gap as the proposed new long-haul projects re-formed their ranks and marched toward this week’s open meeting.

In the aftermath of an extremely critical consultant’s report onits handling of a prospective asset sale, Southern California Gashas reached a settlement with one part of the state regulatorycommission and is separately trying to reopen the possible sale ofits smallest Los Angeles Basin underground natural gas storagefacility in an eastern Los Angeles suburb. An administrative lawjudge (ALJ) with the California Public Utilities Commission isconsidering whether to recommend the deal to the full five-memberCPUC.