Unfulfilled

France’s Total Researching Colorado Oil Shale

While its investments with Chesapeake Energy Corp. in Barnett and Utica shale gas and oil plays have been widely publicized, Paris-based Total SA also is quietly investing in a major research and development (R&D) project looking at in-ground ways to develop oil shale, an unrealized dream of energy independence that the industry and some policymakers have flirted with for decades.

March 16, 2012

California Utilities Propose Biogas Services

With continuing unfulfilled promise within the state’s renewable energy mix, biogas could use a marketing boost, and Sempra Energy’s two utilities have plans to provide the jump-start in recent filings at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). They expect a decision from regulators next year.

November 29, 2010

California Utilities Propose Biogas Services

With continuing unfulfilled promise within the state’s renewable energy mix, biogas, or “green” gas, could use a marketing boost, and Sempra Energy’s two utilities said Tuesday they have plans to provide the jump-start in filings at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). They expect a decision from regulators next year.

November 24, 2010

CA Legislative Proposals Look at Retail Power Choice

Retail choice of power suppliers, a lynch pin of California’s unfulfilled electric industry restructuring, received a renewed boost from California state lawmakers last month with at least two bills submitted in the Assembly aimed at reinvigorating so-called “direct access” options.

March 3, 2003