COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 20, 2000 – Higher natural gas prices helped touch off the crisis in electricity suffered by consumers and companies in southern California, Sempra Energy Chairman Stephen Baum said Wednesday at the Governor’s Natural Gas Summit sponsored by the Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC).
LAKE PLACID, N.Y., Sept. 20, 2000–The New York Power Authority (NYPA) is moving aggressively to help New York State meet the challenges of a competitive electric industry and to assure its own future strength, Eugene Zeltmann, NYPA president and COO, told representatives of the state’s municipal electric systems and rural cooperatives Wednesday.