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Calgary-based Talisman Energy Inc. has agreed to sell about 16,000 boe/d of noncore North American assets in a series of separate transactions. Net proceeds are expected to be C$815 million (US$771 million).

Calgary-based Talisman Energy Inc. agreed to sell about 16,000 boe/d of noncore North American assets in a series of separate transactions. Net proceeds are expected to be C$815 million (US$771 million).

Duke Energy Ohio will spend $75 million over the next five years on a series of natural gas and electric demand side management (DSM) programs designed to help residential, commercial and industrial customers improve their energy efficiency and lower their energy bills.

Houston-based Eagle Rock Energy Partners LP has strung together a series of privately negotiated transactions to strengthen its midstream and upstream businesses in Alabama and Texas. The transactions, valued at $420 million total, also are expected to enable the partnership to nearly double its distributable cash flow this year.

Houston-based Eagle Rock Energy Partners LP has strung together a series of privately negotiated transactions worth about $420 million that are expected to strengthen its midstream and upstream businesses in Alabama and Texas. The transactions also will enable the partnership to nearly double its distributable cash flow this year.

Duke Energy Ohio will spend $75 million over the next five years on a series of natural gas and electric demand side management (DSM) programs designed to help residential, commercial and industrial customers improve their energy efficiency and lower their energy bills.

In the first of a series of reports on fossil fuel plants, the Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a comprehensive report establishing baseline performance and cost estimates for pulverized coal combustion (PC), integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) and natural gas combined-cycle (NGCC) power plants, all with and without carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and storage.

FERC last Thursday finalized a series of reforms to its market-based rate program that seek to shield consumers from the exercise of market power by electric power sellers.

Democratic and Republican lawmakers and state legislators last week hurled a series of attacks at provisions in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct) that they say allow federal regulators to usurp state authority over the siting and construction of electric transmission lines.