NYISO: 2009 Wholesale Power Prices at 10-Year Low States, Groups Call for Halt to Attempted EPA GHG Regulation Stalled Front Helps Lower Next-Day Pacific Northwest Power Economy, Renewables Affect Utilities Differently Carbon Capture Coalition Formed in California Vermont Utilities Negotiating New Hydro-Quebec Power Pact Gensler: Wall Street Support for OTC Reform Tepid at Best Virginia's Push for Offshore Drilling Could Benefit Renewables Market Monitor: PJM Markets Remain Competitive CERA: Mind the 'Efficiency Gap' Collins Presses Interior to Speed Up Permitting of Alternative Energy GHG Policy Coming, Says ExxonMobil Exec Dry, Mild Weather Softens Next-Day Eastern Power Senate Trio's Climate Change Briefing Short on Details Colorado Raises Renewable Goal to 30% by 2020 Forecast: 'Much More Active' Hurricane Season This Year New England Power Executive Nominated for FERC SoCal Edison Buys 200 MW of Solar PV Panels Ontario Approves 510 Alternative Energy Projects Wellinghoff: Congress Should Resolve FERC/CFTC Jurisdiction Dispute DOE's Chu Says Cap on Carbon Emissions Vital EIA Revises Projection for Gas Demand by Power Sector This Year Wind Industry to Congress: Wake Up to Need for Renewable Energy Standard NRG Clean Coal Project to Receive $154M in Federal Funding Energy Efficiency Push Could Equal 333,000 Jobs, Backers Say US Renewables Group Forms Subsidiary to Help Wind Power Development Iowa Has Room for More Wind Power, Report Says EPA Pressed for Details of GHG Emissions Regulation Exelon CEO: GHG Regulation Is Looming DOE Announces $40M for Next Generation Nuclear Plant Work

Modest Gains Prevail in Mostly Flat Market
from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index  March 12, 2010
Screen support, occasional colder conditions give slight boost to prices. ( more )

Storage Was Lightened by 111 Bcf; Futures Probe Lower
from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index  March 12, 2010
Could a $3 handle be in the near future? ( more )

BP to Buy Devon's Noncore Properties in $7B Cash Deal
from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index  March 12, 2010
The transaction is expected to enhance BP's position in North America and internationally. ( more )

Spend Through the Cycle for Long Term, Says ExxonMobil
from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index  March 12, 2010
The oil and gas major commits to spend an average $25-30 billion a year through 2014. ( more )

Opposition to EPA Regulation of GHG Emissions Spreads Beyond Beltway
from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index  March 12, 2010
Governors and trade organizations are now appealing to lawmakers. ( more )

ExxonMobil: No Future for Natgas as Transportation Fuel
from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index  March 12, 2010
CEO Rex Tillerson said using natural gas for long distances and consumer travel "has a lot of limitations." ( more )

Gensler: Wall Street Cool to OTC Regulatory Reform
from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index  March 12, 2010
Proposed increase in Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) budget would enable closer watch of markets, said CFTC head. ( more )

Virginia Continues Push for Offshore Lease Sale
from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index  March 12, 2010
Gov. Bob McDonnell said the legislation positions his state to become the "energy capital of the East Coast." ( more )

Statoil Seeking North American Opportunities
from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index  March 12, 2010
The Norwegian producer already has a large Houston staff. ( more )

Pennsylvania PUC to Examine Marcellus Jurisdictional Issues
from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index  March 12, 2010
Development "creates numerous issues and unanswered questions," commission members said. ( more )

In the Shale Era, Perryville Is the New Henry, Some Say
from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index  March 11, 2010
New supply areas and pipeline infrastructure have created a North Louisiana Hub. ( more )

Yergin: 'Shale Gale' Transforms Gas Market
from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index  March 11, 2010
North America's unconventional gas has changed the game, says Pulitzer Prize-winning author. ( more )

Despite Oversupply, Gas Investment a Must, Say Energy Executives
from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index  March 11, 2010
Long-term global gas demand is expected to increase nearly 30% over next two decades, according to ExxonMobil Corp. ( more )

Sequent's Schantz Fondly Remembered Following Accidental Drowning
from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index  March 11, 2010
Autopsy reveals that Schantz likely hit his head while falling into the river. ( more )

Bastardi Sees 'Much More Active' Hurricane Season This Year
from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index  March 11, 2010
Fading El Nino event will drive the formation of as many as 18 tropical storms, the forecaster said. ( more )

Senate Climate Change Briefing Lacked Specifics
from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index  March 11, 2010
Scarce on details, the Senate climate change proposal continues to be work in progress. ( more )

Chevron to Cut 2,000 from Workforce
from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index  March 11, 2010
Upstream, not refineries and marketing, is to be the new focus. ( more )

Obama Taps Former National Grid Executive for FERC
from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index  March 11, 2010
Former New England electricity executive picked by White House for fifth seat at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. ( more )

ConocoPhillips CEO: Government Ignoring Shale's Potential
from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index  March 10, 2010
Natural gas offers a "real future, not the pipe dreams of hydrocarbon deniers," said Jim Mulva. ( more )

Douglas Schantz's Body Found in Mississippi River
from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index  March 10, 2010
Police believe Sequent Energy Management president drowned accidentally. ( more )

FERC, CFTC Continue to Spar Over Jurisdiction
from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index  March 10, 2010
Commissions state their cases in front of a hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in Washington, DC, Tuesday. ( more )

Despite Upswing in Rig Activity, EIA Sees Gas Output Decline This Year
from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index  March 10, 2010
Federal government projects decline in natural gas production this year despite rise in working gas rigs. ( more )

Utah Senator Decries Proposed Fee Hikes on Oil, Gas Production
from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index  March 10, 2010
Bennett says proposed hikes would increase unemployment, decrease federal revenues. ( more )

Natural Gas 'Key Enabler' of Renewable Energy, Says DOE's Chu
from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index  March 10, 2010
Natural gas, "in a certain sense, is the first responder for changes in energy," he said. ( more )

TVA Contracts for East Tennessee Capacity
from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index  March 10, 2010
The pipeline will deliver gas to a new combined-cycle power plant. ( more )