If natural gas prices rise from their low prices, CPV's 1,050-MW Fairview Energy Center near Johnstown, Pa., can add up to 25% ethane into its fuel mix.

Lower natural gas prices and increased renewable penetration pushed wholesale power prices down sharply in most of the country last year.

NARUC Winter Policy Summit panelists said the use of natural gas will decline as states electrify buildings and the cost of alternative fuels comes down.

ISO-NE’s Energy Security Improvements proposal neared the end as study refinements showed a reduction in customer payments compared to preliminary results.

The California PUC launched an examination of the state’s natural gas infrastructure and the rules governing it for the first time in 16 years.

The party-line feud between FERC commissioners over whether to consider GHG emissions in reviews of natural gas infrastructure continued last year.

ISO-NE said the region has sufficient resources to meet peak demand this winter but warned some gas-fired plants may not be able to get fuel when needed.

National Grid is facing pressure from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo over its decision to deny natural gas service to residents under a moratorium.

The EnVision Forum by FERC and the University of Kentucky’s Center for Applied Energy Research featured discussions on storage, markets and transmission.

PJM’s grid coasted through an “uneventful” summer highlighted by a new record for weekend peak load and the lowest forced outrage rate in five years.