The 20-year cost of the Midcontinent Independent System Operator's compliance with the US Clean Power Plan could be as little as $5.8 billion to as much as $104 billion in today's dollars, depending on which strategies are pursued, ...
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The NYMEX January natural gas futures contract continued its downward slide Tuesday, dropping 6.8 cents to settle at $1.826/MMBtu as warm weather forecasts continue to put significant pressure on the contract. The National Weather ...
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The NYMEX January natural gas futures contract settled at $1.990/MMBtu Friday, down 2.5 cents. A prompt-month contract has not settled lower since reaching $1.975/MMBtu on April 24, 2012. The fall in the January contract comes as the ...
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Utilities are burning less coal than they previously expected, a survey the US Surface Transportation Board conducted shows. During a Rail Energy Transportation Advisory Committee hearing Tuesday in Washington, committee member John Carr, ...
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Duke Energy Indiana has deferred into 2016 some coal contracted for delivery this year as it seeks to cut down on a stockpile that at one point approached 5 million st or 80 days of supply, a company official said in a filing to the state's ...
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US coal stockpiles essentially held steady at 141 million st in the week that ended Thursday, but are likely to begin declining in the coming weeks as coal burn increases with summer demand, according to Bentek Energy. Bentek, a unit of ...
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DTE Electric, Michigan's largest power utility with more than 2.1 million customers, plans to retire a third of its coal-fired generation, more than 2,000 MW, by 2025, and rely more on natural gas and renewables, mostly wind, the company ...
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An explosion Wednesday at Williams' 1.5-Bcf/d Opal Processing Plant in Wyoming was continuing to significantly cut into Rockies flows Thursday and helped lift Western spot gas and forwards prices. Prior to the incident, Opal plant ...
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US propane and propylene stocks fell 1.2 million barrels to 26.71 million barrels for the reporting week ended February 14, Energy Information Administration data showed Thursday. Gulf Coast stocks saw a draw of 533,000 barrels to fall to ...
Gulf Coast propane prices continued to hold a premium over Midcontinent product Wednesday as the market stabilizes into its traditional price relationship. Propane at Mont Belvieu, Texas, was assessed at $1.555/gal on Wednesday while ...
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US Gulf Coast propane was assessed 9% lower at $1.55/gal Tuesday on a warmer weather forecast for much of the US, sources said. "This is what happens when you get strong run-up in prices," said analyst Peter Fasullo of EnVantage. Gulf ...
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Conway propane continued to slide on Tuesday morning as the market corrects from all-time high levels, sources said. Conway propane was heard trading at $2.25/gal, which was 65 cents lower from Monday's assessment. "I think we had a tad ...
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Spot January propane was trading at $3.95/gal early Monday at the Conway, Kansas, NGL trading hub, some 6 cents lower than Friday's assessment. Conway propane was assessed nearly $1/gal lower than on Thursday on Friday at $4.01/gal as ...
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Allocated pipelines and terminals and potential brine issues at the Conway, Kansas, storage facility are likely behind the 25.3% spike in propane prices at the Midcontinent NGL trading hub this week, sources said Friday. On Friday, Conway ...
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US propane and propylene stocks are 31% under were they stood in 2012 on increasing exports, cold weather and changing infrastructure, Energy Information Administration data released Friday showed. The stocks fell 2.51 million barrels to ...