Latest Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Stories
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sempra International today announced that its Mexican business unit Sempra Mexico has been awarded two contracts by Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE), Mexico's state-owned electric utility, to construct, own and operate an approximately 500-mile (820-kilometers), $1 billion pipeline network connecting the Northwestern states of Sonora and Sinaloa. After a competitive and transparent international public bidding process, Sempra Mexico's...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D., Sept. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NorthWestern Corporation d/b/a NorthWestern Energy (NYSE:NWE) today announced that an Administrative Law Judge has issued an unfavorable non-binding Initial Decision in the Dave Gates Generating Station (DGGS) Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) rate proceeding. DGGS is used to provide regulation service to NorthWestern's retail and wholesale customers in Montana. As previously disclosed in our second quarter financial...
PEARL RIVER, N.Y., Sept. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Millennium Pipeline Company, L.L.C. announced today that it has received Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") approval to construct its Minisink Compressor project. In its Notice to Proceed with Construction Activities issued September 18, FERC confirmed that Millennium has received all necessary federal authorizations relevant to this project. "After a long and intensive review process, we are deeply gratified to be able...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A formal rulemaking by the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) may be needed to resolve inconsistent scheduling between the electricity and natural gas markets, FERC member Philip Moeller said Tuesday at a Platts Energy Podium newsmaker event in Washington. Among the options available to the commission to address the increasing tension between gas suppliers and power generators: a full rulemaking. Such would be a significant...
GREENVILLE, S.C., Sept. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sempra U.S. Gas & Power, LLC, a subsidiary of San Diego-based Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE), today announced that it has established a new regional headquarters in Greenville, S.C. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120103/LA29138LOGO) The office will support existing natural gas operations, as well as lead new business development throughout the Southeast region with a focus on energy infrastructure and services....
WASHINGTON and HOUSTON, Sept. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NiSource Gas Transmission & Storage's (NGT&S) Columbia Gas Transmission (Columbia) today announced the company reached a customer settlement that provides for Columbia to modernize its natural gas pipeline infrastructure under a program that will initially span the next five years, with provisions for potential extensions thereafter. The settlement filed today with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)...
MERRILLVILLE, Ind., Sept. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NiSource Inc.'s (NYSE: NI) Columbia Gas Transmission subsidiary today filed a customer settlement in support of its comprehensive interstate natural gas pipeline modernization program with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The parties have asked the FERC to approve the settlement before the end of 2012. Columbia Gas Transmission projects it will invest approximately $4 billion over an extended period to modernize...
HOUSTON, Aug. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cheniere Energy, Inc. ("CEI") (NYSE MKT: LNG) announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Corpus Christi Liquefaction, LLC ("Corpus Christi Liquefaction"), has filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") for authorization to site, construct and operate a liquefied natural gas ("LNG") export facility to be located near Corpus Christi, Texas ("Corpus Christi Project"). The proposed Corpus Christi Project is...
JACKSON, Mich., Aug. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumers Energy filed a motion today with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) protesting a proposed "abandonment" filing made by Trunkline Gas Co. to cease transporting natural gas through one of its two main transmission pipelines serving Michigan. The filing made by Trunkline Gas Co. to cease transporting natural gas through one of its pipelines was also opposed in separate filings by Governor Rick Snyder and the Michigan...
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sempra U.S. Gas & Power, LLC, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE), today announced that it has received authorization from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to place a second underground natural gas storage cavern into service at its Mississippi Hub Storage facility located in Simpson County, Miss. The additional 7.5 billion cubic feet (Bcf) cavern expands the facility's total working gas storage capacity to 15 Bcf. (Logo:...
