Reconsider

EnCana Corp. affiliate Starks Gas Storage LLC has called on FERC to reconsider an order denying its request for a waiver of the Order 636 unbundling requirement in connection with the development of a 19 Bcf natural gas storage facility in southwestern Louisiana. It also asked the agency to use its certificate case to set new storage policy.

EnCana Corp. affiliate Starks Gas Storage LLC has called on FERC to reconsider an order denying a waiver of the Order 636 unbundling requirement in connection with the development of a 19 Bcf natural gas storage facility in southwestern Louisiana. It also asked the agency to use its certificate case to set new storage policy.

Although they allowed some mathematical corrections sought by the utility, the Idaho Public Utilities Commission last Wednesday denied a request for reconsideration by Avista Utilities’ for its full cost recovery of a natural gas supply deal and cost overruns at the utility’s Boulder Park generation project in Spokane, WA. The computational corrections will have no immediate impact on Avista’s utility rates in Idaho, the PUC said.

Although they allowed some mathematical corrections sought by the utility, the Idaho Public Utilities Commission last Wednesday denied a request for reconsideration by Avista Utilities’ for its full cost recovery of a natural gas supply deal and cost overruns at the utility’s Boulder Park generation project in Spokane, WA. The computational corrections will have no immediate impact on Avista’s utility rates in Idaho, the PUC said.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Houston has requested that a Houston judge reconsider separate rulings made in August that dismissed false reporting charges against two former natural gas traders.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Houston last week requested that a Houston judge reconsider separate rulings made in August that dismissed false reporting charges against two former natural gas traders.

The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners has ratified a resolution calling on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to reconsider its recent decision removing the five-year cap that limited the length of contract term that an existing shipper must match in order renew an expiring pipeline contract under the right-of-first-refusal (ROFR) process (see NGI, Nov. 4). The action came at the group’s annual meeting in Chicago last week.

Arizona Public Service (APS) will file a motion to reconsider a move to slow down deregulation, after the three-member Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) on Tuesday voted unanimously to reverse a 1999 requirement that the state’s utilities divest their generating assets. The vote followed a ruling by the commission’s administrative law judge in July, who recommended that Arizona delay competition past July 2004 because the wholesale market was not ready (see Power Market Today, Aug. 28).

FERC needs to take a second look at a recent order in which the federal agency modified its previously instituted West-wide price mitigation methodology for electricity during the winter months, the California Electricity Oversight Board (CEOB) told the Commission last Thursday. The CEOB, among other things, worries that the move could have the unintended consequence of stoking anti-competitive market behavior.