Saying it wants to avoid the uncoordinated development of market mitigation proposals, FERC earlier this week rejected a proposal by Consolidated Edison Co. of New York (ConEd) to make revisions to the utility’s localized market power mitigation measures. Among other things, the Commission voiced concerns over the fact that ConEd’s proposal failed to use the New York Independent System Operator’s (NYISO) stakeholder process.
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Saying linepack and operating conditions had improved, Florida Gas Transmission did not extend an Underage Alert Day notice beyond Tuesday.
Transportation Notes
Tennessee issued a systemwide OFO Balancing Alert that was to take effect until further notice Saturday, saying it was experiencing high system linepack “due to overproduction, reduced demand and limited storage injection capacity.” The OFO requires customers under Rate Schedules LMS-MA and LMS-PA (including SAs) to keep actual daily deliveries into the system less than or equal to scheduled quantities plus 2% (or 500 dekatherms, whichever is greater) and actual daily takes out of the system greater than or equal to scheduled quantities minus 2% (or 500 dekatherms, whichever is greater). Customers will be charged $15 plus the applicable Regional Daily Spot Price for each dekatherm of gas outside of the designated tolerance, Tennessee said. Penalties will not apply to underdeliveries into the system or overtakes out of the system.
CMS, Reliant, Williams Top Customers’ Rankings
The folks over at CMS Energy, Reliant Energy and Williams EnergyTrading apparently are the best around at smiling and saying “thankyou.” They came out on top of a new customer satisfaction rankingby Mastio & Co. that evaluates the largest gas marketingcompanies based on the results of 1,200 interviews with industrialcompanies, LDCs, power producers and other marketers.
CMS, Reliant, Williams Top Customers’ Rankings
The folks over at CMS Energy, Reliant Energy and Williams EnergyTrading apparently are the best around at smiling and saying “thankyou.” They came out on top of a new customer satisfaction rankingby Mastio & Co. that evaluates the largest gas marketingcompanies based on the results of 1,200 interviews with industrialcompanies, LDCs, power producers and other marketers.
Transportation Notes
Northern Natural Gas did not extend a System Overrun Limitationfor all market areas beyond Friday.
Retrospective: 2000 Was the Year the Market Showed Muscle
Calling 2000 a watershed year for the natural gas market issomewhat akin to saying 1776 was an important time in U.S. history.With only a couple of exceptions, last year began with all spotprice indexes between $2 and $3. It ended with January 2001 indexesranging from $8.56 (Questar) to $18.81 (Transco Zone 6-NYC).
2000: Year The Market Showed Off Its Muscles
Calling 2000 a watershed year for the natural gas market issomewhat akin to saying 1776 was an important time in U.S. history.With only a couple of exceptions, last year began with all spotprice indexes between $2 and $3. It ended with January 2001 indexesranging from $8.56 (Questar) to $18.81 (Transco Zone 6-NYC).
‘Might as Well Burn Dollar Bills’ in West Coast Market
Records are made to be broken, or so the saying goes. Whileprices continued to dive Friday from the Rockies/Southwesteastward, the California and Pacific Northwest markets kept revvingit like never before. Malin and the PG&E citygate hit the newall-time high mark of $61.
Gas Production Making Small Gains
Now that most of the production data for the third quarter isin, analysts generally are saying they “told you so” because U.S.gas production is barely making desperately needed gains.Production is, however, growing slightly more than expected, andsome observers see huge gains to be made next year.