![](media/image1.jpeg){width="8.5in" height="3.5027777777777778in"}U.S.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

**Office of Electricity, Delivery and\
Energy Reliability**

**ENERGY ASSURANCE DAILY**

**June 27, 2005**

**Electricity**

**51,000 Lose Power After Chicago Fire**

At least 51,000 customers were without power the night of Friday, June
24 after an explosion and fire in a ComEd underground power vault. Power
was restored to all customers by Saturday night.

<http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-outage25.html>

### Greenlight Energy Approved to Build Large Scale Wind Farm in Colorado

The company received approval from the Washington County Commission to
develop the 200 to 300 MW wind farm near the town of Akron.
<http://www.energycentral.com/centers/news/daily/article.cfm?aid=5762849>

**Two New FPL Generating Units Begin Operation in Florida**

The new gas-fired units will add an additional combined 1,900 MW of
generation to FPL's Martin and Manatee county plants.

<http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050627/275922.html?.v=1>

# TXU's 560 MW Coal-fired Big Brown 1 Back Soon in Texas

The unit was shut on June 25 to repair a boiler tube leak and will
likely be back in service Monday June 27.

Reuters 08:21, June 27, 2005

# FPL's 693 MW Turkey Point 4 Shut on June 27 in Florida

The unit was shut due to a transformer fire. The cause of the fire is
still under investigation.

Reuters 13:33, June 27, 2005

# DTE's 1,111 MW Fermi 2 Nuke Shut in Michigan

The unit was shut to repair a non-radioactive leak in the drywell.
Repairs are estimated to take about a week.

Reuters 13:33, June 27, 2005

### Duke's 510 MW Gas-fired Moss Landing 2 Shut on June 27

Reuters 14:00, June 27, 2005

**CDWR's 281 MW Hyatt Hydro Plant Shut June 24 in California**

Reuters 14:00, June 27, 2005

**TXU's 565 MW Coal-fired Monticello 2 Shut June 26 in Texas**

The unit tripped during testing of the turbine governor valve and was
returned to service later the same day.

Reuters 08:21, June 27, 2005

######## Petroleum

# Deer Park Texas Refinery Unit Resumed Production June 25

The 67,000-barrel per day catalytic cracking unit at Shell's Deer Park
refinery was shut to repair a heater steam coil on June 15.

Bloomberg News 14:13, June 27, 2005

# Sunoco Marcus Hook, PA FCC Unit Down

The 95,000-barrel per day FCC unit at Sunoco's Marcus Hook refinery went
down on Saturday. The cause of the downtime and expected date of return
to service are unknown.

OPIS Price Watch Alert, 10:57 June 27, 2005

# Support Shown for Proposed OPEC Output Quota Increase

A proposal to raise OPEC's output quota by almost 2 percent has been
backed by Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, and Kuwait. In addition to the output
quota increase, Saudi Arabia will agree to increase production to 11
million barrels per day and Nigeria will agree to increase by 40,000
barrels per day to meet demand. A decision is expected within the week
to raise the output ceiling to 28.5 million barrels per day.

Bloomberg News 12:07, June 27, 2005

**Natural Gas**

### El Paso Receives Certificate of Approval for Natural Gas Pipeline

The 88-mile, 502 million cubic feet per day pipeline, dubbed Line 1903,
will extend from Ehrenberg, Arizona to Cadiz, California. The line is
expected to be in service in late 2005.

<http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050627/dam015.html?.v=13>

# Joint Woodside-Crystal Energy LNG Terminal Plans Scrapped

Plans to develop a \$350 million LNG plant off the U.S. coast by
Australia's Woodside Petroleum and Houston-based Crystal Energy have
been canceled. Woodside said it would plan to develop its own LNG
terminal to supply the U.S.

Reuters 21:07, June 26, 2005

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######## Other News

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### Construction Begins on Arch Coal Underground Coal Mine in West Virginia

The mine, known as Mountain Laurel, will be one in a series of new mines
and expansions by companies cashing in on rising U.S. coal demand. At
its peak, the mine is expected to produce 5 million tons of coal per
year.

<http://www.industrialinfo.com/index.jsp?qiSessionId=CFF01351DE930CC9F9D24809AB5D49B2.chop>

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######## Energy Prices 

+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
|                               | **Latest  | **Week    | **Year     |
|                               | (06       | Ago**     | Ago**      |
|                               | /27/05)** |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
| **CRUDE OIL**                 | 60.65     | 59.19     | 36.25      |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **West Texas Intermediate     |           |           |            |
| US**                          |           |           |            |
|                               |           |           |            |
| \$/Barrel                     |           |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
| **NATURAL GAS**               | 7.47      | 7.80      | 6.13       |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **Henry Hub**                 |           |           |            |
|                               |           |           |            |
| \$/Million Btu                |           |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+

> Source: Reuters

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