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California regulators on Thursday unanimously approved a 2007-08 natural gas hedging program for Sempra Energy’s San Diego Gas and Electric Co. (SDG&E) unit and a revised allocation of firm core capacity on parts of Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s (PG&E) backbone transmission pipeline system.

California regulators Thursday unanimously approved a 2007-08 natural gas hedging program for Sempra Energy’s San Diego Gas and Electric Co. (SDG&E) unit and a revised allocation of firm core capacity on parts of Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s (PG&E) backbone transmission pipeline system.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors honored Sempra Energy’s Southern California Gas Co., recognizing the utility’s recent top national ranking for customer service by J.D. Power. SoCalGas ranked highest for customer satisfaction among natural gas utilities in the western United States and scored highest nationwide in the latest J.D. Power study, which determined the ranking by interviewing more than 12,000 customers. The ranking looks at six criteria: company image, price and value, communications, billing and payments, customer service, and field services. The gas utility — the nation’s largest — came out on top among all 56 large natural gas utilities in the study, the county resolution noted.

An Oakland, CA-based environmental legal group filed a lawsuit against Sempra Energy’s Southern California Gas Co. alleging leakage of toxics into groundwater from the utility’s smallest underground storage field along the coast at Marina del Rey. A utility spokesperson strongly denied that any gas has seeped from the Playa del Rey storage facility.

An Oakland, CA-based environmental legal group Thursday filed a lawsuit against Sempra Energy’s Southern California Gas Co. alleging leakage of toxics into groundwater from the utility’s smallest underground storage field along the coast at Marina del Rey. A utility spokesperson strongly denied that any gas has seeped from the Playa del Rey storage facility.

Calling it a record-setting amount, Sempra Energy’s Southern California Gas Co. announced Friday it has a $10 million pot for energy efficiency rebates and incentives for its business customers. This amounts to the most money ever offered by the gas utility to encourage businesses to save energy through new and retrofit programs.

Reflecting the continuing race in California to stay out front on energy efficiency through massive ratepayer-funded programs, Sempra Energy’s Southern California Gas Co. Tuesday announced it has recently signed contracts totaling $26 million with outside providers to expand residential and small business energy efficiency programs through 2008.

Reflecting the continuing race in California to stay out front on energy efficiency through massive ratepayer-funded programs, Sempra Energy’s Southern California Gas Co. Tuesday announced it has recently signed contracts totaling $26 million with outside providers to expand residential and small business energy efficiency programs through 2008.

Sempra Energy’s Southern California Gas Co. plans to offer its business customers what it is calling “extreme energy efficiency” services through 2008 that individually could save up to 250,000 therms annually. The utility has committed at least $2.4 million as part of a new Energy-Efficiency Grant Program.