Infrastructure

Noting that the state’s climate change mediation goals call for investing billions of dollars in energy efficiency, California regulators on Thursday approved $65.9 million to conduct five pilot energy efficiency programs using utility ratepayer-supported financial mechanisms. Pilot programs will be phased in beginning in the fourth quarter.

The first Canadian liquefied natural gas (LNG) could have to settle for boarding tankers at a new port on the northern Pacific Coast of the United States, a champion of British Columbia projects conceded Wednesday.

A high-octane consortium with deep fueling and financing on Wednesday said it had formed Eagle LNG Partners to develop a network of U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facilities.

Environmentalists and other activists are marshaling their troops to continue their battle against the recently authorized global exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Cove Point LNG Terminal on the Chesapeake Bay in Calvert County, MD.

GDF Suez Gas NA is accepting through the end of 2013 nonbinding bids for liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply from its proposed advanceLNG Project, “an initiative to provide attractively priced LNG to a wide array of customers in the U.S. Northeast,” the company said Monday.

Already promoting diesels, hybrids and electric vehicles (EV), Volkswagen (VW) is reportedly considering a natural gas vehicle (NGV) model in the United States, drawn by abundant U.S. natural gas supplies. Fueling infrastructure remains a concern of the German automaker, however.

A Canadian energy entrepreneur on Thursday unveiled plans to build an underground transmission project linking natural gas and renewable energy resources in Ontario (ON) to Pennsylvania.

FERC Thursday approved Gulf Crossing Pipeline Co. LLC’s proposal to build and operate lateral facilities that would provide firm transportation services to a natural gas-fueled, combined cycle power plant that is under construction in Sherman, TX, which is 60 miles north of Dallas and near the Barnett Shale.

Veresen Inc. has filed an application with Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) for a long-term license to export natural gas from Canada to the United States to supply its proposed Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas (LNG) project at Coos Bay, OR, the Calgary-based company said Tuesday.