After what it has characterized as a successful, targeted use of automatic meter reading (AMR) technology in remote, hard-to-access areas, Las Vegas, NV-based Southwest Gas Corp. late last month announced it intends to totally automate more than 1.7 million natural gas meters in the three principal metropolitan areas it serves in Nevada and Arizona. Southwest expects to complete the installation in 2009.
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Long Beach Council to Vote on LNG as Sentiment Indicator
Opposing factions on the city council will attempt Tuesday to get a thumbs-up/thumbs-down reading on the sentiment of Long Beach, Ca, elected officials regarding a proposed $450 million liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in the city’s harbor.
Forecaster Mulls Weather Service Revision; Sees Possibly Colder Eastern Trend
Reading between the lines of the most recent long term (December through February) forecast by the National Weather Service (NWS), one meteorologist notes it “does not discourage a long term forecast of cold temperatures in the East.”
Large Declines Mix with Mostly Small Increases
If you look up the dictionary definition of “mixed,” by now the entry might be reading, “See Thursday’s cash gas market.” The number of rising points slightly outweighed the falling ones, but many of the gains were small (in single digits) and most of the losses were large at 30-55 cents or so.
GPU, NUI Team Up in Retail Markets
GPU Advanced Resources of Reading, PA, and NUI Energy, ofBedminster, NJ, formed a retail marketing alliance that will giveeach company access to the other’s unregulated retail gas andelectric customers. GPU Advanced Resources currently serves about17,000 electric customers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, while NUIis active in retail gas customer choice programs in New Jersey,Pennsylvania and Maryland. The alliance is effective immediately.
GPU, NUI Team Up in Retail Markets
GPU Advanced Resources of Reading, PA, and NUI Energy, ofBedminster, NJ, formed a retail marketing alliance that will giveeach company access to the other’s unregulated retail gas andelectric customers. GPU Advanced Resources currently serves about17,000 electric customers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, while NUIis active in retail gas customer choice programs in New Jersey,Pennsylvania and Maryland. The alliance is effective immediately.