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Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI) has strongly refuted claims in a lawsuit filed by two Colorado cities which accuse the company of overcharging customers located in high elevations by failing to adjust bills to reflect the effect of the higher altitude on the gas stream.

Asserting that the current landscape for merger-related activity in the utility sector is “kind of barren,” Dominion Resources Inc. CEO Thomas Capps on Friday denied rumors that the Virginia-based power company is in merger talks with another unnamed company.

Portland General Electric (PGE) is taking umbrage with a recent FERC staff report that concludes that the Enron Corp. subsidiary jointly developed an arrangement under which Enron Power Marketing Inc. (EPMI) was able to implement a scheme to create false congestion and to receive payment for relieving that congestion on California’s transmission lines.

American Electric Power Co. Inc. (AEP) has denied charges itcapitalized on the turbulence in the Midwest electricity markets inlate June by allegedly engaging, along with other power marketersin the region, in “abusive price gouging” that contributed topower prices soaring into the thousands of dollars.