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Newark-based Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) has made a series of management and organizational changes, including the naming of new presidents for four businesses: PSEG Energy Holdings, PSEG Global, PSEG Energy Resources & Trade and PSEG Services. The company also is restaffing positions that went unfilled in anticipation of its merger with Exelon, now aborted.

FERC announced plans to begin a series of “collaborative dialogue” meetings with state regulators on energy demand-response programs in an effort to decrease the amount of power demand through reduction programs nationwide.

Reno, NV-based Ormat Technologies, Inc. announced Thursday it completed a series of four recovered energy generation (REG) plants along the Northern Border Pipeline in North and South Dakota that will produce approximately 22 MW for Bismarck, ND-based Basin Electric Power Cooperative. Basin has a 25-year power purchase agreement with Ormat that was announced last year.

FPL Group is suing the state of Maryland and its public service commission (PSC) to hasten consideration of its pending merger with Constellation Energy Group.

In preparation for a filing to FERC this fall, Guardian Pipeline, LLC is holding a series of four open houses this week along the proposed route for its 110-mile, $220-240 million extension of an existing Illinois-Wisconsin line to the Green Bay, WI, area. The meetings started Monday in Green Bay and end Thursday in Whitewater.

Environmental groups are targeting Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL) in a series of print and radio advertisements for his decision to support a GOP-crafted compromise that would establish a 125-mile, no-drill buffer zone around Florida in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

Environmental groups are targeting Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL) in a series of print and radio advertisements for his decision to support a GOP-crafted compromise that would establish a 125-mile, no-drill buffer zone around Florida in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

As the federal energy department hosting a third in a series of public education sessions on liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Los Angeles Thursday, the sponsor of the proposed Clearwater Port offshore LNG terminal project on the Southern California coast announced it now has “significant competitive advantages” from its merger into NorthernStar Natural Gas, Inc. and is prepared to go forward.

Looking to bolster its position in the Williston Basin, Marathon Oil Corp. said Tuesday that it completed a series of land acquisitions totaling almost 200,000 leasehold acres in the Bakken Shale play in North Dakota and eastern Montana.