Stipulation

Williams’ Northwest Pipeline said Wednesday that it filed a stipulation and settlement agreement that resolves all outstanding issues in its pending rate case (RP06-416), which was filed on June 30 with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The settlement between Northwest and the intervening parties in the case, including Northwest’s customers, is supported by the FERC staff and is expected to be uncontested.

Williams’ Northwest Pipeline said Wednesday that it filed a stipulation and settlement agreement that resolves all outstanding issues in its pending rate case (RP06-416), which was filed on June 30 with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The settlement between Northwest and the intervening parties in the case, including Northwest’s customers, is supported by the FERC staff and is expected to be uncontested.

As part of the ongoing integrated resource plan (IRP) state regulatory proceeding, Nevada’s two major private sector electric utilities agreed in a stipulation earlier in September to modify their approach to natural gas price hedging. The state attorney general’s consumer protection bureau, Nevada Resort Association and Nevada Public Utilities Commission (PUC) staff engineered the agreement with the utilities, which still must be approved by the three-member PUC.

FERC last Monday approved a stipulation and consent agreement ordering CenterPoint Energy Gas Transmission (CEGT), an interstate natural gas pipeline subsidiary of Houston-based CenterPoint Energy Inc., to pay a civil penalty of $270,000 and take other remedial steps for allegedly violating the agency’s standards governing the behavior between regulated companies and their affiliates.

FERC on Monday approved a stipulation and consent agreement ordering CenterPoint Energy Gas Transmission (CEGT), an interstate natural gas pipeline subsidiary of Houston-based CenterPoint Energy Inc., to pay a civil penalty of $270,000 and take other remedial steps for allegedly violating the agency’s standards governing the behavior between regulated companies and their affiliates.

FERC last Tuesday approved a stipulation and consent agreement between FERC’s Office of Market Oversight and Investigations’ Division of Enforcement and Westar Energy Inc. that imposes a detailed, three-year plan designed to prevent future violations of FERC standards of conduct, including improper sharing of transmission information and incomplete posting of data on Westar’s OASIS website.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week approved a stipulation and consent agreement with Duke Energy’s Texas Eastern Transmission LP (Tetco) resolving charges that the pipeline committed violations of agency rules governing the behavior between regulated natural gas transmission facilities and their marketing affiliates, along with numerous other infractions.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Monday approved a stipulation and consent agreement with Duke Energy’s Texas Eastern Transmission LP (Tetco) resolving charges that the pipeline committed violations of agency rules governing the behavior between regulated natural gas transmission facilities and their marketing affiliates, along with numerous other infractions.

Shell Energy Services will pay about $84,000 for slamming retail gas customers in Georgia, according to a stipulation signed Tuesday by the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC). The agreement resolves charges that the company switched 18 gas customers without their authorization during a telemarketing campaign last year and misinformed 516 other customers.