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While Pennsylvania and New Jersey would like nothing more thanto give Williams’ proposed MarketLink expansion the boot, Floridais opening its arms to the company’s Buccaneer Natural Gas Pipelineproject.

While Pennsylvania and New Jersey would like nothing more thanto give Williams’ proposed MarketLink expansion the boot, Floridais opening its arms to the company’s Buccaneer Natural Gas Pipelineproject.

While the new Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline is ready toflow, with government approvals on both sides of the border, itwill be sometime later in the month before Sable Island wells areoperational, according to a spokeswoman for the new Nova Scotia toNew England pipeline.

Average on-site energy consumption per household dropped by 27%between 1978 and 1997 while the number of U.S. households increasedby 33%, resulting in no change in total on-site residential energyconsumption over that 20-year period, according to a report fromthe Energy Information Administration (EIA). If the amount ofprimary energy required to generate and transmit the electricityconsumed by households is considered, then the decline inper-household energy consumption is only 16% because electricity’sshare of total household energy consumption increased between 1978and 1997.

While it remains to be seen whether winter will show up thisyear, gas customer choice programs are very much with the industryright now. Programs in Maryland, Michigan and Washington, DC, areunder way. On the electric side of customer choice, two pilots havejust been kicked off in Texas.

Williams’ Buccaneer Gas Pipeline was the first to file an underwater Florida-bound project with FERC on Sept. 30 (see NGI Oct. 4), but Coastal Corp.’s competing Gulfstream Natural Gas System moved to the lead last week, filing its project three days after Buccaneer’s filing was rejected on technical and environmental grounds related to new filing requirements. FERC told Buccaneer to come back with a complete filing.

Williams’ Buccaneer Gas Pipeline was the first to file anunderwater Florida-bound project with the FERC on Sept. 30 (see DailyGPI, Oct. 1), but Coastal Corp.’scompeting Gulfstream Natural Gas System moved to the lead today,filing its project three days after Buccaneer’s filing was rejected ontechnical grounds. The FERC told Buccaneer to come back with acomplete filing.

While Enron Energy Services signed its largest contract ever inthe third quarter, the business has yet to show a profit. However,the company said strong performance to date all but ensure a profitin the fourth quarter.

While scores of pipelines are jockeying to supply gas to newpower generators in the Northeast market, PG&E Gas Transmission— the 7th largest pipeline in the nation — is turning itsattention to the rapidly growing generation markets in the PacificNorthwest and Texas, where the competition from rival pipelines ismuch less fierce.