Winter

California’s major energy agencies on Monday released a draft winter reliability plan to respond to the continuing natural gas storage limitations in the state. The plan assumes that “normal winter demand” can be met by the three other storage facilities in the region.

As first responders and utility crews worked in and around the Blue Cut wildfire surrounding a major highway artery serving Southern California on Thursday, energy analysts and state grid operating officials said the closed Aliso Canyon natural gas storage field in north Los Angeles County could become more problematic because of added stress on the grid from the wildfires.

The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts on Wednesday dealt a setback to the proposed Access Northeast pipeline project when it overturned a gas-electric harmonization plan approved by the state’s Department of Public Utilities (DPU).

Intense heat and a below-average storage injection lifted natural gas forwards for a fourth straight week, according to NGI’s Forward Look.

A Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) staff recommendation in an Examiner’s Report released Wednesday says there is no need for state regulators to enter into pipeline capacity contracts in order to support natural gas and power price stability — at least not for now.

The double-digit gains seen last week in natural gas forwards markets were just as quickly erased during the April 22-28 period as seemingly bearish storage news and mild weather sent June prices spiraling downward by an average 16 cents, according to NGI’s Forward Look.

The double-digit gains seen last week in natural gas forwards markets were just as quickly erased during the April 22-28 period as seemingly bearish storage news and mild weather sent June prices spiraling downward by an average 16 cents, according to NGI’s Forward Look.

It was quite the week in natural gas forwards markets as prompt-month prices rose an average 17 cents between April 15 and 21 in the face of slowing production and long-term outlooks for warmer-than-normal weather, according to NGI’s Forward Look.

It was quite the week in natural gas forwards markets as prompt-month prices rose an average 17 cents between April 15 and 21 in the face of slowing production and long-term outlooks for warmer-than-normal weather, according to NGI’s Forward Look.