Regulatory

California Gov. Gray Davis is unhappy with his appointed president of the state regulatory commission, and may name a new head of the five-member panel, according to a report in last Wednesday’s Los Angeles Times.

Energy East Enterprises (EEE) subsidiary Seneca Lake Storage, Inc. (SLSI) has filed plans with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a high-deliverability natural gas storage facility in depleted salt caverns in the Town of Reading, NY. Energy East Enterprises is a unit of Energy East Corp.

Energy East Enterprises (EEE) subsidiary Seneca Lake Storage, Inc. (SLSI) has filed plans with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a high-deliverability natural gas storage facility in depleted salt caverns in the Town of Reading, NY. Energy East Enterprises is a unit of Energy East Corp.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is expected to issue notationally an order that would allow interstate natural gas pipelines to roll into their rates the costs of security upgrades, according to industry sources.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has denied a motion for a stay and remand of its earlier orders authorizing construction of Guardian Pipeline, a 141-mile, 36-inch line designed to deliver up to 750 MMcf/d from the Chicago Hub near Joliet, IL, to southeastern Wisconsin.

In response to a request from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) earlier this week, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has agreed to hold a “public comment meeting” to address the concerns of the residents of Westchester County, NY, about the routing of the beleaguered Millennium Pipeline project through their community.

Bowing to pressure from Capitol Hill, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ruled that the settlement conference currently in progress in Washington D.C. could address issues related to past power sales to consumers in the Pacific Northwest, as well as California.

Aquila Inc. is maintaining its previously set 25% growth target for the year despite the downturn in energy stocks and the continuing regulatory and legislative tirade against western power generators and marketers. By remaining geographically diverse across the United States, Aquila executives said they effectively eliminate concentration risk.

Bowing to pressure from Capitol Hill, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a ruling late Friday clarifying that the settlement conference currently in progress in Washington D.C. “may” address issues related to past power sales to consumers in the Pacific Northwest, as well as California.