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Daily Natural Gas Rates 11/14/2011 |
| On the wholesale front, the number of rigs drilling for natural gas in the United States slid by 30 this week to a 3-1/2-month low of 877, the third decline in four weeks, and data from oil services firm Baker Hughes showed on Friday. The gas-directed rig count, which hit a 9-1/2-month high of 936... |
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Natural Gas Rates Daily 11/11/2011 |
| In the lone star state, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded a greenhouse gas permit for a natural gas-fired plant in Texas, the first the federal agency has issued since taking over the Lone Star State's permitting program in January. The EPA announced on Thursday it had awarded th... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rates 11/10/2011 |
| A build this morning at the Reuters estimate would slightly trim the shortfall relative to last year by 7 bcf to 10 bcf, or 0.3 percent, and widen the surplus to the five-year average by 10 bcf to 211 bcf, or 5.8 percent. In the past four reports, total stocks rose 385 bcf, or 96 bcf per week, vers... |
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Natural Gas Rates Daily 11/09/2011 |
| The December wholesale contract rallied yesterday settling at $3.745 on the day, up $0.049. The only change in the market material is that the 11 to 15 day forecast went from above average temperatures for the eastern half of the country to normal temperatures for the same area while colder than no... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rates 11/08/2011 |
| In the business world, most times it’s wise to under promise and over-deliver, however in Connecticut (I don’t know why they are on the morning commentary so often); Connecticut Light & Power Sunday finally abandoned its promise of 99 percent restoration by midnight Sunday and apologized to its cust... |
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Natural Daily Gas Rate 11/07/2011 |
| In lone star state this morning, most Texans have been enjoying relatively low electricity rates in recent years, but prices are expected to rise in the next couple of years as the cost of natural gas increases and power supplies tighten, experts said Thursday. "Just tell them to lock in prices" fo... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rate 11/04/2011 |
| The December wholesale exchange contract had an initial rally after the EIA storage figure came out yesterday at a consensus forecast of 78 bcf was published. The December wholesale contract rallied up to the $3.863 area then sellers took over once again and pushed the wholesale contract down to th... |
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Natural Gas Daily Update 11/03/2011 |
| The December wholesale exchange contract was lower by $0.032 yesterday as energy traders are still looking at the 6-10 weather projections and wondering where is the colder than normal weather given we are still in a over-supplied natural gas market. |
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Natural Gas Daily Report 11/02/2011 |
| The December wholesale contract settled lower yesterday as sellers were convinced that warm weather has taken over in the short term and settled lower at $3.781, down $0.153 on the day. Natural gas followed the rest of the energy sector lower as the rest of other markets moved on more bad news out ... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rates November 1 2011 |
| Constellation Energy, announced yesterday it is offering 2 million Ohio residential electric customers the opportunity to use 100 percent green energy in their home. The Constellation Energy offer gives homeowners and renters in the service territories of Cleveland Electric Illuminating, Ohio Ediso... |
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10/31/2011 Natural Gas Rates Daily |
| Stream Energy, recently donated $10,000 to the Utility Emergency Services Fund (UESF), a non-profit which supports low-income families in Philadelphia. The donation was presented to UESF as part of a Stream Energy event at the Philadelphia Convention Center which drew a crowd of over 3,000 attendee... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rates 10/28/2011 |
| On the expeditious front, in Las Vegas, Nevada, residents with smart meters are going to get some protections from remote disconnects of their power. The Legislative Commission on Wednesday approved a regulation that customers who have their electricity turned off via the meters between 7:30 a.m. a... |
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10/27/2011 Natural Gas Rate |
| As we do once a week, we’ll focus the rest of the commentary on the status of America’s fuel tank going into the winter heating season. U.S. natural gas inventories are expected to have climbed by 86 billion cubic feet last week, a Reuter’s poll of industry traders and analysts showed on Wednesday.... |
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10/26/2011 Daily Natural Gas Rates |
| Continuing on the wind front, wind energy is more affordable than ever and new installations across the country are saving consumer’s money on their electric bills, as utilities rush to lock in long-term favorable rates. The U.S. wind industry installed just over 1,200 megawatts (MW) in the third q... |
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10/25/2011 Natural Gas Rates |
| In the wholesale natural gas market, the average of the first 12 months of New York Mercantile Exchange natural gas wholesale contracts slid to its lowest in nine years on Monday as growing supplies and moderate weather weighed on the natural gas complex. |
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Natural Gas Rated Daily 10/24/2011 |
| In the State of Washington, Avista Energy is preparing one of the one of the largest package mailings in Inland Northwest history, the delivery of 300,000 kits containing compact fluorescent light bulbs to Avista Utilities customers. Each weekday, about 5,400 packages leave the warehouse in a U.S.... |
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Gas Rates Daily Update 10/21/2011 |
| The November wholesale contract rallied again yesterday almost $0.13 before falling back down and settling higher on the day by $0.024. The EIA storage figure was a slightly lower figure of 103 bcf, lower than everyone was forecasting and once the report was released, the natural gas market staged ... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rates 10/20/2011 |
| On the renewable front this morning, for those that have not developed a sense of what green jobs are being promoted in our economy, a definition of a green job is a job that delivers or develops products or services in one of our four core areas. First, renewable energy and alternative fuels such a... |
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Natural Gas Rates & News 10/19/2011 |
| According to the Wall Street Journal, natural gas, used to heat nearly half of U.S. homes, is expected to hit some of the lowest winter prices in years as rising production and a mild autumn send U.S. stockpiles of the fuel to record levels. Normally, natural-gas prices surge beginning in December,... |
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Natural Gas News 10/18/2011 |
| In the lone star state this morning, it seems that the sun has yet to fully shine on the solar-power industry in Texas. The industry is still tiny, accounting for a fraction of 1 percent of the state's electric power generation. But industry professionals and advocates of renewable energy say that... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rates 10/17/2011 |
| The big news of the day today is that Kinder Morgan said Sunday it agreed to buy El Paso Corp. in a $21.1 billion cash and stock deal that includes the assumption of about $16.7 billion in El Paso debt. The union would create North America's largest natural-gas pipeline network, positioning it to p... |
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Natural Daily Gas Rates 10/14/2011 |
| Constellation and Exelon on Wednesday rejected some of the main conditions proposed by critics, including the state consumer advocate's proposal for a three-year rate freeze. The companies also rebuffed a recommendation by Gov. Martin O'Malley's administration that they develop more state-based rene... |
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Natural Gas Rates 10/13/2011 |
| Yesterday, the energy department announced that a decline in U.S. manufacturing capacity is causing industrial demand for natural gas to grow at the slowest pace in three years, pushing down natural gas prices as production heads toward a record. Industrial gas use may rise 0.8 percent in 2012, the ... |
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Natural Gas Rates Daily 10/12/2011 |
| The November wholesale natural gas contract rallied once again on high volume yesterday settling at $3.616, up $0.075 on the day. The rally was probably the result of 2 factors. |
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October 11tTh Natural Gas Update |
| The November wholesale exchange contract seemed to rally yesterday $0.06 in sympathy with the rest of the energy complex and the Dow which were up significantly yesterday. Some folks were thinking there was no reason for the natural gas market to rally, however, the financial markets being up over ... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rate Texas 10/10/2011 |
| In the lone star state this morning, A Standard and Poor’s report labeled “Texas’s Long, Hot Summer Makes Power Retailers Sweat” is out and claiming that inevitable shake-out in ERCOT's retail power market is slowly but surely underway as smaller players begin showing signs that operations are unten... |
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Daily Natural Gas Reports 10/07/2011 |
| On the innovative front, ConEdison Solutions and Viridity Energy announced yesterday that they are working together on a major, new energy demand response offering through the introduction of "energy optimization," a first-to-market, automated, revenue-generating, energy management offering. |
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Natural Gas Reports 10/06/2011 |
| The East Coast faces average to slightly above average snowfall during the winter of 2011-2012 as a Pacific La Nina again drives weather patterns across the United States. The spokesperson from Accuweather even was quoted as stating that "People in Chicago are going to want to move after this winte... |
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October Natural Gas Report 10/05/2011 |
| Best Buy and Whirlpool will test smart appliances and provide guidance and research collaboration on integrating smart appliances into home services systems to provide enhanced consumer services. SunEdison will lead the research team’s work to develop home solar panel charging for the Chevrolet Vol... |
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Daily Natural Gas Report 10/04/2011 |
| Yesterday, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the winners of the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 at the National Mall's West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C. The University of Maryland won top honors overall by designing, building, and operating the most cost effective, energ... |
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10/03/2011 Natural Gas Daily Update |
| The November wholesale supply contract was lower on Friday by $0.081 on the day along with the financial markets that seemed to continue the downward trend last week. The DJIA was lower by 240 points on the day on continuing concerns over the European situation and the potential impact to our econo... |
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09/30/2011 Daily Gas Rates |
| The November wholesale natural gas slide yesterday by $0.052, settling at $3.747 on the day. EIA storage data showed in injection of 111 Bcf, higher than market consensus and the views expressed yesterday in our commentary. The build pushed inventories to 3,312 Bcf, or 91 Bcf lower than a year ago... |
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Natural Daily Gas Rate 09/29/2011 |
| In the state of Ohio, a sense of anti deregulation by AEP with a proposal which would effectively prevent more than 50 communities, comprising more than 300,000 households from receiving the benefits of governmental aggregation programs that are currently on the November ballots, according to testim... |
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09/28/2011 Natural Gas Update |
| The October wholesale contract continued to go higher yesterday, settling up $0.045 at $3.827 on the day. Today is the last day of trading the October wholesale contract with it expiration at 1:30. Some folks believe that this is the time of the year that it takes some extreme weather to effect th... |
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09/26/2011 Daily Gas Rates |
| In Kansas City, KCP&L officials were optimistic that 2011 would be the year the economy and electric meters started humming along again. But after six months some troubling figures have emerged. The utility's residential customers were using 4 percent less electricity than a year ago, when the num... |
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09/21/2011 Daily Natural Gas Rate |
| The October natural gas wholesale contract continues to consolidate below the $4.00 price area before the fall weather turns cooler. The October contract was lower by $0.031 on the day, settling at $3.798. It seems that the lower cooling demand in the next few weeks is putting additional supplies ... |
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09/16/2011 Natural Gas Update |
| NYPA has filed an application with the United States Department of the Interior to lease an offshore site at least 13 miles south of New York City and the western end of Long Island. NYPA also announced that it will conduct a competition to select a developer to build a utility-scale offshore wind f... |
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Natural Gas Rate Update 09/15/2011 |
| In the past four reports, total stocks rose 242 bcf, or 61 bcf per week, versus a 176 bcf adjusted build for the same one-month period last year and a 222-bcf five-year average gain for that period. |
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09/14/2011 Natural Gas Rates Update |
| In the lone start state this morning, the head of ERCOT, told a congressional panel that providers are being challenged in assessing how the rule will affect the risk of outages and whether they can reduce any losses in power. |
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09/12/2011 Daily Gas Rates |
| In the state of Ohio due to budget cuts to local governments, city officials are finding more reasons to turn off the lights when they leave the room. Some have lobbied the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio for relief. Others have shaved costs by switching suppliers. |
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09/09/2011 Natural Gas Update |
| As we discussed yesterday with energy efficiency nationwide, PPL Electric Utilities announced a new program to help small businesses reduce power consumption and save on their electric bills. The "E-power Direct Discount" program covers up to 75 percent of the cost of upgrades such as energy effici... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rates 09/08/2011 |
| If weekly stock builds through October match the five-year average pace, inventories will begin next heating season with 3.543 tcf, below last November's record high of 3.84 tcf. To get inventories above last year's high by Nov. 1, weekly injections must average 88 bcf for the remaining 10 weeks of... |
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Gas Rates Update 09/07/2011 |
| In Maryland this morning, Baltimore Gas and Electric says it has restored service to all customers who lost power due to Hurricane Irene, except for a few individual outages. Although the BGE website showed nearly 900 customers were without power on Monday morning |
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Natural Gas Rate Update 09/06/2011 |
| BGE began a review of PeakRewards after extreme heat on July 22 prompted the region's electricity grid operator to declare an "emergency event" for the utility. That meant customers who signed up for the program (which eases energy consumption when demand spikes and saves money for participants) saw... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rates 09/01/2011 |
| The October natural gas wholesale contract was higher by $0.145, or 3.7% yesterday as some energy traders were wondering if we have made our cyclical low in natural gas prices before we have our pre-winter rally which has occurred over the last 19 or 20 years since 1991. |
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Daily Natural Gas Rate Update 08/31/2011 |
| The October wholesale natural gas contract added another in a long line of quiet days yesterday. The natural gas market dipped slightly in the morning and then spent the rest of the day slowly climbing back up and settling close to the high of the day, higher by $0.079 at $3.909. |
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Natural Gas Rates Daily 08/30/2011 |
| The September natural gas contract settled lower yesterday by $0.074 at $3.857 on the day which was its expiration. The October wholesale natural gas will now be the focus in our commentaries. U.S. East Coast natural gas demand from the power sector was expected to drop a total of 2.8 billion cubi... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rate 08/26/2011 |
| Dominion Virginia Power and Dominion North Carolina are also readying crews and preparing equipment for emergency restoration work over the next several days. Dominion reminds its customers to call their toll free 1-866-DOM-HELP hotline in the event of outages or downed lines. |
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Natural Gas 08/25/2011 |
| In the lone star state this morning, a prolonged drought, looming environmental rules and shortcomings in the incentives for building new power plants could cause even more problems with Texas' electric grid in the next year. A number of Texas power plants may need to cut back operations or shut do... |
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Natural Gas Rates Daily 08/23/2011 |
| The September wholesale natural gas contracts fell Monday as energy traders focused on forecasts for cooler weather, looking past the possibility of supply disruptions from Hurricane Irene. The wholesale natural gas for September settled 5.1 cents lower. |
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Daily Natural Gas Rates 08/22/2011 |
| As school children head to back to the classrooms this week in Texas and crank up air conditioners, flip on the lights and turn on microwaves that will boost demand for electricity at a critical time. On Friday, the Public Utility commission asked the ERCOT COO, “Whether the grid operator is ready ... |
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August 19th 2011 Gas Rates |
| On the deregulation front, In Maryland this past quarter, (March 2011 to June 2011), Baltimore Gas & Electric saw residential natural gas migration growth of nearly 10,000 accounts. The percent of residential gas accounts at BGE served by a competitive supplier increased from 13.7% in March to 15.3%... |
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August 18th 2011 Natural Gas Rates |
| U.S. natural gas inventories are expected to have climbed by 49 billion cubic feet last week, a Reuter’s poll of industry traders and analysts showed on Wednesday. There were 21 participants in the Reuters poll, with injection estimates ranging from 43 bcf to 61 bcf. Storage rose an adjusted 28 bc... |
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Natural Gas Rate Daily 08/17/2011 |
| In the lone star state yesterday, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas executed short-term contracts with two generation owners to activate four “mothballed” units to address emergency situations during the extreme heat and drought, an ercot spokesperson announced. NRG Energy and Garland Power... |
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Natural Gas Daily Rate 08/16/2011 |
| In the city of Houston, weather forecasters said the area set a record with 15 consecutive days of 100-degree heat Monday, when the high temperature topped out at 100. The previous record of 14 straight 100-degree days was set in 1980. More heat is on the way and the heat index could climb to betwe... |
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Natural Gas Rates 08/15/2011 |
| In the lone star state this summer, peak electricity demand in sweltering Texas has surged past levels that weren't expected until 2014, exposing a shortage of generating capacity likely to persist for several years. For the second year in a row, the organization responsible for the stability of Te... |
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Natural Gas Rates Daily 08/12/2011 |
| In the state of Pennsylvania last month, PPL Electric Utilities customers set a summer record for electric usage in July because of the month's extreme heat, the company said. The company's 1.4 million customers in 29 counties, including Lancaster County, used 3.823 million megawatt-hours last mont... |
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Gas Rates August 11 2011 |
| As we do on most Thursday’s, we’ll focus the rest of the commentary on the storage levels. U.S. natural gas inventories are expected to have climbed by 37 billion cubic feet last week, a Reuter’s poll of industry traders and analysts showed on Wednesday. There were 25 participants in the Reuters p... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rate 08/10/2011 |
| In the lone star state this morning, the local paper is reporting that high temperatures were the driving force behind record power demand in Texas last week, but what really pushed the state electric grid to the brink of crisis was the large number of power plants that went offline because of unsch... |
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August 9 2011 Natural Gas Daily Rates |
| In the lone star state, Texans consumed more electricity in one week than ever before last week, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, and it appears that this week will be another demanding time for the state's largest bulk transmission grid. ERCOT, which manages a grid for 75 per... |
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Natural Gas Rates 08/08/2011 |
| On the tropical front, NOAA issued its updated 2011 Atlantic hurricane season outlook raising the number of expected named storms from its pre-season outlook issued in May. Forecasters also increased their confidence that 2011 will be an active Atlantic hurricane season. |
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Natural Gas Rate 08/05/2011 |
| In the lone star state this week, the heat wave this week has caused record electricity demand in Texas, prompting authorities to buy energy from Mexico and ask customers to conserve energy. Texans set electricity demand records Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. |
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Daily Natural Gas Rates 08/03/2011 |
| On the home front, Constellation Energy announced it will offer more than 330,000 downstate Illinois residential electric consumers up to 16 percent savings compared to Ameren's winter electric supply rates. Constellation Energy is offering selected homeowners and renters who are currently Ameren cu... |
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Natural Gas Rate 08/02/2011 |
| In the lone star state this week, since temperatures are forecast in the triple digits throughout most of Texas all week, the agency responsible for managing the flow of electricity to customers warned today that power consumption could be at an all-time peak today and that energy supplies need to b... |
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August 1 2011 Natural Gas RATES |
| On the deregulated front, a growing number of American Electric Power customers in Ohio are choosing alternative electricity providers, putting a dent in the company's sales for the second quarter. Ohio opened the door to electricity shopping with a 1999 law, but competitive suppliers have had a to... |
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Natural Gas Rate 0/728/2011 |
| U.S. natural gas inventories are expected to have risen by 40 billion cubic feet last week, a Reuter’s poll of industry traders and analysts showed on Wednesday. There were 26 participants in the Reuters poll, with injection estimates ranging from 10 bcf to 58 bcf. Storage rose an adjusted 31 bcf... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rate Update 07/26/2011 |
| Continuing with the heat surge in the Northeast, Thousands of sweltering New Yorkers turned up the heat on Con Ed yesterday - blasting the utility for leaving them without power in the midst of a withering heat wave. Some folks were complaining that once the temperature hit 104 degree’s on Friday, ... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rates Update 07/25/2011 |
| In the BGE service territory on Friday as well, BG&E activated a power management program to reduce the amount of electricity some residential customers use. BGE representatives also underscored an ongoing request for customers to conserve energy wherever possible and said Friday that the utility wa... |
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Natural Gas Rate Update 07/22/2011 |
| The August natural gas wholesale contract was lower yesterday by $0.105 settling at $4.395 on the day keeping energy traders discombulated because how else can you explain the EIA storage change number coming out at a build of 60 bcf versus estimates in the range of 58 bcf to 68 bcf and yet the mark... |
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Natural Gas Daily Update On Rates 07/21/2011 |
| U.S. natural gas inventories are expected to have risen 62 billion cubic feet last week, a Reuter’s poll of industry traders and analysts showed on Wednesday. There were 25 participants in the Reuters poll, with injection estimates ranging from 50 bcf to 80 bcf. |
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Natural Gas Rate 07/20/2011 |
| On the retail front this morning, Constellation Energy, a leading competitive energy supplier to residential, business and public-sector customers, today announced that it has signed an agreement to provide electricity to U.S. Postal Service (USPS) facilities in New York, Massachusetts and Maine, co... |
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Natural Gas Rates Daily 07/19/2011 |
| Along the lines of Michigan utilities, so many large electricity users have switched from Public Services of New Hampshire (PSNH”s) to competitive energy suppliers that PSNH's remaining residential and small customers pay about 8 percent more according to a electricity publication. The New Hampshir... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rates 07/18/2011 |
| On the acquisition front, Australia's BHP Billiton Ltd. has offered to buy shale patch pioneer Petrohawk Energy Corp. for $12.1 billion in a deal that would more than double unit BHP Billiton Petroleum's resource base and grow proved reserves by about 30%, it said. Petrohawk shares took flight on t... |
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Natural Gas Rates 07/15/2011 |
| On the wholesale front this week, EIA projects that the spot gas price will average $4.26/MMBtu this year and expects that the average price of natural gas will rise 6% to $4.54/MMBtu in 2012 "as slowing growth in production contributes to tighter domestic natural gas markets" next year. |
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Gas Rate Daily Update 07/14/2011 |
| A total build this morning at the Reuters survey estimate would widen the shortfall relative to last year by 2 bcf to 226 bcf, or 8 percent, and increase the deficit to the five-year average by 12 bcf to 60 bcf, or 2.3 percent. In the past four reports, total stocks rose 340 bcf or 85 bcf per week, ... |
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Daily Natural Gas Update 07/13/2011 |
| On the flip side of customer satisfaction this morning, it seems a track record of frequent, long outages and customer complaints has earned energy provider Pepco, recognition as the most hated company in America, a report showed. The American Customer Satisfaction Index group said its findings ind... |
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Natural Gas Rate 07/12/2011 |
| On the environmental front this morning, the EPA recently announced details of the Cross-State Air Pollution Act which is set to force power plants in 27 states to significantly reduce sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions by as early as January 2012. The legislation will impact natural gas,... |
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Natural Gas Rates Daily 07/11/2011 |
| On the windy side of the energy business, it seems that cross currents in the financial and commodity markets slowed U.S. wind energy's progress in 2010, but Texas retained first place in newly installed wind power capacity, adding 680 megawatts last year to now total 10,089 megawatts. Illinois, Cal... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rates 07/08/2011 |
| On the deregulated front this morning, Peco Energy Co. estimates its residential supply charge will increase by 6 percent. This boost in the default rates could get the attention of customers who have hesitated to switch to unregulated suppliers. The Philadelphia utility, rather than blaming the i... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rates 07/07/2011 |
| On the deregulation front this week, the weekly Pennsylvania customer migration report states during the most recent week that at PPL customer migration was 2,493 customers switching to a new energy supplier up from the previous week of 1,870 customer in the previous week. |
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Natural Gas Rates Daily Update 07/06/2011 |
| On the strategic side of sending out bad news to the mass markets, Peco Energy Co. is formally notifying 215,000 residential customers that two popular discounted rates will expire at the end of next year, but it is rationing out the bad news to reduce the chance that irate ratepayers will overwhelm... |
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Natural Daily Gas Rate 7/02/2011 |
| On the transactional front this morning, Constellation Energy, a leading competitive energy provider, announced on Friday that it closed its acquisition of MXenergy, a Connecticut-based supplier of natural gas and electricity with approximately 540,000 customers in North America. |
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Daily Natural Gas Rate 07/01/2011 |
| In the state of New York this morning, Officials with the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) said they plan to make an announcement on the status of the state's long-awaited environmental impact study on horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the Marcellus Sh... |
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Nautral Gas Rates Daily Update 06/30/2011 |
| On the underbelly of successful deregulation this morning, Michigan Gas Utilities Corporation said that it, "will cease accepting new GCC [Gas Customer Choice] customer enrollments for one year," beginning September 1, 2011. During this "moratorium," Michigan Gas Utilities said that it will assess ... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rates 06/29/2011 |
| In the Ercot territory Monday, electricity demand peaked at 62,762 megawatts between 4-5 pm in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) region which was lower than the earlier forecast of more than 65,000 MW. Energy prices in the market peaked at $626 in a 15 minute interval in the west co... |
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Natural Gas Rates 06/28/2011 |
| In the lone star state yesterday, Ercot entered Energy Emergency Alert Level 1 at 3:30 pm yesterday when responsive reserves dropped below 2,300 MW. Generation capacity is expected to be tight over the peak today as well, and ERCOT operators are closely monitoring the situation. |
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Daily Natural Gas Rates 06/27/2011 |
| The July natural gas wholesale contract rose Friday from 30-day lows on some bargain hunting by energy traders and expectations that demand-inducing heat would return next week to many U.S. markets. The July wholesale contract settled 3.6 cents, or 0.86%, higher, at $4.229 a million British thermal... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rate 06/24/2011 |
| Since Mexico is a large trading partner of the U.S., it seems that the United States can count on selling a growing sliver of its natural gas production to Mexico as the country's reliance on gas-fired power generation grows, domestic oil production overshadows that of gas, and liquefied natural gas... |
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Natural Gas Daily Update 06/23/2011 |
| In the state of Pennsylvania yesterday, the Pennsylvania Office of Small Business Advocate has filed a complaint at the Pennsylvania PUC seeking, among other things, an investigation into the impact of the proposed Exelon-Constellation Energy merger on the state's retail electricity and natural gas ... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rate 06/22/2011 |
| Yesterday in the lone star state, Texas Competitive Power Advocates is seeking to impose a "backstop" capacity obligation on ERCOT loads. With the goal of fine-tuning ERCOT's energy-only design, TCPA suggests consideration be given to requiring loads to bring capacity to the market to incent both fo... |
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Natural Gas Rates Daily Update 06/21/2011 |
| Constellation Energy, a leading competitive electricity supplier to business and public sector customers, yesterday released results of a statewide poll of Illinois consumers showing residents strongly support shopping for electricity providers at a time when high gasoline prices are affecting their... |
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Natural Gas Rates Daily 06/20/2011 |
| In the Georgia retail natural gas market about 15% of customers switched suppliers over the last year, and over the next 12 months another 15% will be in play, according to a study done by J.D. Power and Associates 2011 Georgia Retail Gas Provider Satisfaction Study which was published last week. |
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Daily Natural Gas Rates 06/17/2011 |
| As we mentioned the advance payment program from TXU earlier this week, a regulated power provider in North Carolina is borrowing some of the unique ideas that are offered by unregulated power providers in other states by offering a, “Advance Pay Program”. The town of Selma, North Carolina will be ... |
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Natural Gas Rates Daily Update 06/16/11 |
| In Pennsylvania, PECO energy is offering $120 for residential customers that allows the utility to cycle their home air conditioners on and off during the hottest summer afternoons. Peco Energy Co. says 68,000 residential customers have signed up to receive these credits. |
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Natural Gas Rates News 60/15/2011 |
| In the lone star state this morning, TXU is announcing their advance pay payment plan through the news calling it, “TXU Energy FlexPower (SM) which allows customers to pay for electricity in advance. The plan features free alerts and notifications via text message or email notifying customers when ... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rates 06/14/2011 |
| On the retail compliance front this morning, the Connecticut DPUC has issued a Notice of Violation against ResCom Energy, under which ResCom would be fined $11,000, for what the Department said were unauthorized switches. The Department's Notice of Violation found that ResCom failed to obtain confir... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rate News 06/13/2011 |
| On the deregulated front this morning, state energy regulators have fined a Connecticut electricity supplier $100,000 after finding that it engaged in deceptive marketing practices, the Maryland Public Service Commission announced Friday. The commission also ordered North American Power and Gas to u... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rates 06/10/2011 |
| As Direct Energy is guiding the Pennsylvania PUC to offer default service, several consumer groups told the PUC separately that significant customer migration to competitive suppliers at several Pennsylvania electric distribution companies in the last few months with significant gains in the past we... |
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Natural Gas Rates 06/09/2011 |
| As we do on most Thursday’s, we’ll focus the rest of the commentary on the storage levels. U.S. natural gas inventories are expected to have gained 78 billion cubic feet last week, a Reuter’s poll of industry traders and analysts showed on Wednesday. |
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Natural Gas Rates Daily Updates 06/08/2011 |
| On the innovation front this morning, TXU Energy is announcing today, the launch of the TXU Energy Mobile App for the iPhone(R). With this release, TXU Energy becomes the first and only electricity retailer in Texas to offer its customers mobile access to their accounts through an app for the iPhon... |
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