Shivers

While the economy continues to send shivers through various clean fuel sectors, California’s budding electric and natural gas transportation space remains healthy and optimistic, according to major utilities in the state. They told NGI that both the infrastructure and the vehicles (dedicated and converted) are taking shape in the nation’s most automobile-dense state.

Wall Street’s credit influenza will send shivers through the energy patch before long, and the FERC is prepared, Commission Chairman Joseph Kelliher said Thursday. Meanwhile, financial markets continued triage, with players aligning to deliver life-giving capital transfusions to the stricken.

What enouraged Wall Street sent shivers of skepticism through half-empty Sacramento political corridors last week in the wake of the largest settlement ever involving the allegations of western wholesale energy market manipulation.