Regulator

Veteran state regulator and former governor’s communication director Kris Mayes was selected Tuesday by her colleagues as chairman of the five-member Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC). She is a Republican who has been elected twice to the regulatory panel after originally being appointed by Gov. Janet Napolitano in 2003.

The Minnesota Court of Appeals Tuesday said the state’s utilities regulator have to reconsider their decision to block CenterPoint Energy from recovering $21 million from customers that it underbilled over four years.

Congress, in creating the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), “wanted to ensure that one expert regulator’s oversight preempted not only other federal regulators, but also state regulators” in the futures market, CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton said last Tuesday.

Congress, in creating the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), “wanted to ensure that one expert regulator’s oversight preempted not only other federal regulators, but also state regulators” in the futures market, CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton said Tuesday.

Acknowledging that Nova Scotia has work to do if its waters are to ever be considered a world class attraction for exploration and production companies, the regulator of the province’s offshore petroleum industry announced changes to make the region more enticing.

Acknowledging that Nova Scotia has work to do if its waters are to ever be considered a world class attraction for exploration and production companies, the regulator of the province’s offshore petroleum industry announced changes to make the region more enticing.

With the state’s chief regulator weighing in, California is poised to establish final rules for natural gas transmission and storage in the state as the end of the second phase of a multi-year industry restructuring. After postponing the issue earlier this month, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is scheduled Sept. 21 to vote on the issue, which covers various bread-and-butter issues affecting the state’s vast transmission/storage system and its upcoming integration of liquefied natural gas (LNG).

With the state’s chief regulator weighing in, California is poised to establish final rules for natural gas transmission and storage in the state as the end of the second phase of a multi-year industry restructuring. After postponing the issue earlier this month, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is scheduled Sept. 21 to vote on the issue, which covers various bread-and-butter issues affecting the state’s vast transmission/storage system and its upcoming integration of liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Former Arizona regulator Marc Spitzer and ex-Alliant Energy executive Philip Moeller have been sworn in as commissioners at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.