CME Group, the world’s largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, announced that it will launch 18 new natural gas basis, index and swing swaps futures contracts on ClearPort®, beginning on October 19 for trade date October 20.
The new futures contracts and their commodity codes are: NGPL STX natural gas basis swap (T5); Algonquin Citygate natural [...]
John Hanger, immediate past secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, former member of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, and nationally-recognized expert on energy, the economy, and the environment, issued a statement today on his blog about the documentary “Gasland,” nominated for an Academy Award to be awarded tonight. The blog is located at [...]
USA Biomass Chairman Robert Cleaves will chair Platts’ highly anticipated national Biomass Power Forum November 6-7 in Florida, which features biopower experts from throughout the country — including Cleaves — who will explore biomass economics, key biomass finance structures, the role biomass plays in meeting RPS, and opportunities for expansion and financial investment in this [...]
Public Service Electric and Gas Co. (PSE&G) is prepared for the remnants of Tropical Storm Hanna, a storm system that could bring strong winds and heavy rain to New Jersey this weekend. PSE&G has all available personnel scheduled throughout the weekend to quickly respond and restore service should the inclement weather result in outages.
PSE&G is [...]
Quicksilver Resources Inc. announced today that it has formed a strategic alliance with major integrated energy company Eni for acquisition, development and exploitation of unconventional natural gas resources in an area covering approximately 270,000 acres surrounding Quicksilver’s Alliance properties in the Fort Worth Basin. The parties have executed a definitive purchase agreement whereby Eni will [...]
Hiland Partners, LP today announced a new system expansion project with the signing of an agreement with a third-party producer to construct and operate natural gas gathering pipelines, compression and related facilities around its existing Kinta gathering system in eastern Oklahoma. With the signing of this agreement, the third-party producer has dedicated approximately 7,040 gross [...]
Plug Power Inc. a leader in providing clean, reliable energy solutions, today announced that the NASDAQ Listing Qualifications Panel (the “Panel”) has granted the Company’s request for continued listing on The NASDAQ Capital Market pursuant to an extension of time, as permitted under NASDAQ’s Listing Rules, to comply with the minimum $1.00 bid price [...]
Pioneering Technology Inc. of Mississauga, Ontario was advised today by Rhode Island’s Providence Housing Authority (PHA) that they have been awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Fire Prevention and Safety (FP&S) grant program for the purchase and installation of Pioneering Technology’s Safe-T-element cooking technology.
The Fire Prevention [...]
New York Regional Interconnect Inc., the proposed 190-mile transmission line that will bring electrical energy from upstate New York to meet the growing demand in the southeastern part of the state, today announced that it has received the official support of Unions for Jobs and the Environment (UJAE). UJAE includes unions that build and maintain [...]
China Energy Corporation, a leading producer of coal, heat, and electricity in Inner Mongolia, China, is pleased to announce that it has successfully completed the construction of new facilities in an ongoing expansion of its heating supply capacity.
“The addition of 14 new heat transfer stations to our heat supply network has greatly increased the total [...]