Unpleasant

Bidding on El Paso Turned-Back Capacity to End Friday Despite Pleas for Extension

Bidding for turned-back capacity on El Paso Natural Gas by full-requirements (FR) shippers will come to a close Friday, despite a last-minute plea by a group of FR shippers for FERC to postpone the deadline, and a challenge by California regulators and utilities to El Paso’s decision to give FR shippers preferential access to the capacity. The bidding is seen as a critical first step in the FERC-ordered plan to convert all of the FR shippers on El Paso to contract-demand (CD) service by Nov. 1 of this year, and end a years-long dispute over the disparate manner in which capacity has been allocated on the pipeline.

August 9, 2002

NIPSCO: Indiana Customers’ Winter Bills Up to 60% Higher

Unlike San Diego consumers for whom skyrocketing utility billscame as a hugely unpleasant surprise, natural gas customers inIndiana have been warned in advance to expect to expect much higherbills this winter. The message to Indiana consumers last week wassimilar to those being broadcast all across the country bygovernment and utility officials anxious to moderate the intensepublic reaction manifest in California.

September 4, 2000

NIPSCO: Indiana Customers’ Winter Bills Up to 60% Higher

Unlike San Diego consumers for whom skyrocketing utility billscame as a hugely unpleasant surprise, natural gas customers inIndiana have been warned in advance to expect to expect much higherbills this winter. The message to Indiana consumers this week wassimilar to those being broadcast all across the country bygovernment and utility officials anxious to moderate the intensepublic reaction manifest in California.

September 1, 2000