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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

**Office of Electricity and\
Energy Assurance**

**ENERGY ASSURANCE DAILY**

**April 14, 2005**

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Roseville Power Plant in CA Gets Approval\
The California Energy Commission approved a license for a 160 MW natural
gas-fired power plant in Roseville, California on Wednesday.\
[**http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2005/04/11/daily22.html?jst=b_ln_hl**](http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2005/04/11/daily22.html?jst=b_ln_hl)

**Duke\'s 1,100 MW McGuire 2 Nuke in North Carolina Back On-line April
14**

The power plant had shut down on March 1 to repair a steam leak and
refuel.

Bloomberg News, 1409 April 14, 2005

**FERC Proposes New Rules to Encourage Wind-Generated Electricity**

The current tariff is designed for plants burning fuels with a
controlled amount of electricity going into the grid; wind-generated
power does not have this. The new rule takes into consideration the
fluctuations in electricity generation inherent in any wind generator.

Reuters, 1606 April 13, 2005

### TXU's 750 MW Coal-fired Monticello 3 Unit Back On-line Soon

The unit should be back on-line by Friday after repairing a boiler tube
leak.

Reuters, 0751 April 14, 2005

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### New Undersea Electricity Cable to Connect New Jersey to Long Island

Neptune Regional Transmission System will start laying the cable in the
next couple of months. The cable is expected to enter service in
mid-2007. The cable will allow Long Island to get much needed less
expensive electricity from outside of New York.

Reuters, 1413 April 14, 2005

### 900 MW Intermountain Coal-fired Unit 1 in Utah Has Problem, is Repaired

The plant was taken off-line due to vibration problems, but was back
on-line within the day as the problem was resolved.

Reuters, 1411, April 14, 2005

### Outage on DC Pacific Intertie

The line was supposed to be back in service today after a temporary
outage.

Reuters, 1411 April 14, 2005

######## Petroleum

**Arizona Environmental Office Approves Air Permit for New Oil
Refinery**

No U.S. refinery has been built since Marathon's refinery in Garyville,
LA was opened in 1976. Although there is much to do to meet the planned
2009 opening date, this is a major milestone, since no refinery proposed
since the 1970s has gotten this far along in the permitting process.

Getting an air pollution permit approved is no easy task.

Bloomberg News, 1333 April 14, 2005

Reuters, 1444 April 14, 2005

**With Crude Oil Drop, OPEC May Not Increase Production**

Crude dropped for a tie Thursday to under \$50 for the first time in
almost two months. With the drop in crude oil over the past week or so,
several OPEC countries have expressed disagreement with any increase in
production. These countries include: Algeria, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, and
Venezuela.\
<http://www.platts.com/Oil/News/3235080.xml?S=n>

Agreement to Build a Crude Oil Pipeline to Avoid Bosporus Bottlenecks

Bulgaria, Greece, and Russia governments signed an agreement to allow a
crude oil pipeline to be built connecting Bourgas in Bulgaria with
Alexandroupolis in Greece.

Nefte Compass, April 14, 2005\
[**http://www.energyintel.com/PublicationHomePage.asp?publication_id=3**](http://www.energyintel.com/PublicationHomePage.asp?publication_id=3)

Northwest Petroleum Pipeline in Washington to Replace Corrode Pipes

The U.S. Department of Transportation ordered that the corroded portions
of the pipeline be replaced.

Source: Seattle Times, April 14, 2005

<http://pro.energycentral.com/professional/news/gas/news_article.cfm?id=5597538>

**Pipeline Infrastructure OK in Gulf for Additional LNG**

Trunkline capacity from the U.S. Gulf Coast to the rest of the nation is
not a major concern of LNG developers, according to participants at an
LNG conference held yesterday.

Reuters, 2051 April 13, 2005

### Citgo Lake Charles Refinery in Louisiana Increases Capacity

A Citgo official yesterday stated that the Lake Charles refinery has
brought on-line 105,000 bpd in additional crude processing capacity.

Reuters, 1643 April 13, 2005

### PDVSA's Amuay Refinery in Venezuela Back On-line

The plant is now almost fully recovered from the shut down several weeks
ago due to a power failure.

Reuters, 1313 April 14, 2005

**Natural Gas**

FERC Approves 3 Gulf Coast Gas Storage Projects

Natural Gas Intelligence, April 13, 2005

Trunkline Gas Co Plans to Expand System

This will entail building 40 more miles of 30-inch pipeline.

Natural Gas Intelligence, April 13, 2005

Some Unscheduled Maintenance on Trunkline's Terrebonne System

Three points along the line will not be accepting nominations from
Friday April 15 through about Monday April 19.

<http://infopost.panhandleenergy.com/InfoPost/jsp/NoticeDetail.jsp?NoticeId=1891>

 

**Other News**

####### Powder River Basin Coal in Wyoming Surges in 2005 In 2004 the price of coal in the Eastern United States jumped dramatically, but prices remained stable in Powder River Basin, until now. Since January Powder River Basin Coal has increased about 25%. It is still a bargain at about \$7.15 per ton compared to the price of eastern coal such as found in Appalachia for example, that may go for around \$60 per ton today. [**http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/04/13/build/wyoming/28-wyocoal.inc**](http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/04/13/build/wyoming/28-wyocoal.inc)

**Energy Prices**

+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
|                               | **Latest  | **Week    | **Year     |
|                               | (04       | Ago**     | Ago**      |
|                               | /14/05)** |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
| **CRUDE OIL**                 | 51.11     | 54.12     | 36.62      |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **West Texas Intermediate     |           |           |            |
| US**                          |           |           |            |
|                               |           |           |            |
| \$/Barrel                     |           |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
| **NATURAL GAS**               | 7.02      | 7.50      | 5.73       |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **Henry Hub**                 |           |           |            |
|                               |           |           |            |
| \$/Million Btu                |           |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+

> Source: Reuters

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