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House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) has called on the task force on natural gas to complete its final report by Sept. 30 so that the findings and recommendations can be considered by conferees as part of the broad national energy bill now being negotiated on Capitol Hill.

The independent consumer unit at the California Public Utilities Commission Friday recommended that San Diego-based Sempra Energy’s two major utilities’ collectively have their retail rates lowered by $192.4 million as part of pending cost-of-service cases filed by the two utilities. New rates are proposed to be effective next year.

If the United States wants to maintain its current standard of living, it is going to have to become a bigger player in the global gas market by importing more liquefied natural gas (LNG), Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told a House panel last Tuesday.

If the United States wants to maintain its current standard of living, it will have to become a bigger player in the global gas market by importing more liquefied natural gas (LNG), Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told a House panel Tuesday.

Enron Corp. announced Friday that its board of directors has elected to create a new international energy company, which would be comprised of most of its international energy infrastructure businesses. To form the new company, Enron said it would terminate any sales efforts of those assets.

Enron Corp. announced Friday that its board of directors has elected to create a new international energy company, which would be comprised of most of its international energy infrastructure businesses. To form the new company, Enron said it would terminate any sales efforts of those assets.

California’s coalition of state government agencies and private-sector utilities late Friday asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to reconsider its March 26 ruling on future wholesale power refunds to consider all of the additional evidence the state coalition provided early in March. The move came three days after FERC granted a rehearing on the narrower issue of the natural gas pricing formula used in the refund case.

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and the California Electricity Oversight Board (CEOB) last Tuesday asked FERC to reopen the record in a proceeding involving the agencies’ challenge to several power contracts entered into by the California Department of Water Resources (CDWR) and various power suppliers during the state’s 2000-2001 energy crisis.

A subsidiary of EnCana Corp. has asked for approval to construct and operate a 51-mile-long, 24-inch sweet natural gas pipeline from a company plant near Fort Nelson, BC to a tie-in point on NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd.’s northwest mainline, just east of the Alberta/British Columbia border near Rainbow Lake, AB.