Aside from the political cries for regulatory actions to provideconsumer electricity rate relief, two days of federal hearingsMonday and Tuesday turned up a wide array of diagnoses andpotential prescriptions for curing what ails California’sstill-convalescing wholesale power market.
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CA Governor Signs Two Electricity Bills
Separate but closely linked California legislative proposals toprovide consumer electricity rate relief and accelerated powerplant siting/energy efficiency programs were signed into lawWednesday by Gov. Gray Davis, who used the occasion to list 11separate previous electricity-related actions he or hisadministration have taken since June 14 immediately following thefirst controlled rolling brownouts in the San Francisco Bay Areasince World War II.
Southern Sells Dynegy Wholesale Contract
Southern Wholesale Energy, the trading arm of Southern Company,signed a wholesale power supply contract with Dynegy Energy toprovide 260 MW of power from its excess wholesale capacity. Theagreement is the second wholesale power agreement between the twocompanies within the last six months.
MPSC Takes Step Towards NG Choice
The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) is in the processof expanding on a pilot program to provide all natural gascustomers in the state with the choice of suppliers. The MPSC staffis meeting with Michigan Consolidated Gas, Consumers Energy, SEMCOEnergy Gas and all other interested parties to formulate a uniformset of terms and conditions for natural gas customer choice.
Southern Sells Dynegy Wholesale Contract
Southern Wholesale Energy, the trading arm of Southern Company,signed a wholesale power supply contract with Dynegy Energy toprovide 260 MW of power from its excess wholesale capacity. Theagreement is the second wholesale power agreement between the twocompanies within the last six months.
Landowners Get in Last Jab at Independence
Ohio and Pennsylvania landowners aren’t convinced the precedentagreements submitted by the sponsors of the proposed IndependencePipeline last month provide “sufficient evidence” of marketsupport, and have asked FERC to deny the greenfield pipelineproject a certificate when it takes up the case this week.
Altra, Junot Offering Altra Web As Stand-Alone
Altra Energy Technologies Inc. and Junot Systems Inc., anenterprise application integration (EAI) solutions provider, madean alliance to provide gas pipelines with Altra Web as astand-alone GISB-compliant web-based electronic bulletin boardsolution. Altra Web provides compliance with GISB requirements anduses the latest in Internet technology.
EnronCredit.com Launched
Enron launched EnronCredit.com, a global online creditdepartment to provide live credit prices and enablebusiness-to-business customers to hedge credit exposure instantlyvia the Internet. EnronCredit.com helps businesses evaluate thecredit quality of their customers in real time and, beginning March8, will allow them to transact in bankruptcy swaps via Enron’sglobal Internet-based transaction system, EnronOnline.
Reliant Places Large Turbine Order
S&S Energy Products, a GE Power Systems business, wasawarded a $280 million contract from Reliant Energy of Houston toprovide 19 GE LM6000 aeroderivative gas turbine-generator sets,auxiliary and balance-of-plant equipment.
Shell Chooses EDI Partner
Houston-based Shell Energy, a subsidiary of Shell Oil Co., choseEnergy Services Group (ESG) of Pembroke, MA, to provide electronicdata interchange (EDI) and data processing services in selectedretail energy markets. ESG assists energy companies with data andtransaction processing required to service retail customer accountsin deregulated markets.