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A plan that calls for more than $420 million of transmission facility additions and reinforcements in the PJM region has been given the green light by PJM Interconnection’s board of managers. PJM Interconnection’s board of managers signed off on the second regional transmission expansion plan (RTEP) for the PJM region on Tuesday.

The Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSB) recently approved construction of two new gas-fired electric generation facilities within the state in an effort to keep ahead of the region’s growing demand. The projects include an enormous 2,700 MW plant in Summit County and a 704 MW facility in Sandusky County.

The Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSB) recently approved construction of two new gas-fired electric generation facilities within the state in an effort to keep ahead of the region’s growing demand. The projects include an enormous 2,700 MW plant in Summit County and a 704 MW facility in Sandusky County.

A “quadrilemma” within Mexico’s natural gas and electricity sectors is causing almost overwhelming obstacles in its natural gas and electricity sectors, which are going to take time and private investment to overcome, according to one of the country’s energy commissioners.

Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham has created an energy emergency task force within the Department of Energy (DOE) that will work in cooperation with the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) to deal with blackouts and other energy emergencies this summer in California and elsewhere in the nation.

California is shooting to have all of its qualifying facility (QF) power generation plants back online within the next eight to 10 days, a move that will help ease California’s energy crunch, but won’t solve it completely, state officials told a U.S. House hearing Thursday.

Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham has created an energy emergency task force within the Department of Energy (DOE) that will work in cooperation with the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) to deal with blackouts and other energy emergencies this summer in California and elsewhere in the nation.

About 104 square miles of virgin natural gas hunting grounds arebeing thrown open within reach of potential routes for the proposedAlaska pipeline by the Yukon Territory’s second sale in two years.Companies are being given until March 14 to bid on the parcel,which borders on two areas that Anderson Exploration Ltd. scoopedup in the first sale, which was in turn the first one held by theYukon in two decades.

Sen. Frank Murkowski (R-AK), chairman of the Senate Energycommittee, yesterday announced plans to hold hearings on theCalifornia energy crisis within the next week. The chairman echoedthe Bush administration’s position that California must take thelead in solving its problem with support from FERC, theadministration and Congress.