![](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 9, 2005**

#### Electricity

**Update \-- Storms Caused Over 200,000 Outages in Minnesota**\
The Wednesday storms knocked power out to more than 200,000 Xcel Energy
customers in the Minneapolis metro area, and more than 63,500 customers
were still without power Wednesday afternoon.
<http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-storms,0,3944058.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines>

**Storms Knock Out Power to About 92,000 in St. Louis and Kansas City
Areas**

More than 20,000 AmerenUE customers in Missouri lost power Wednesday
evening. Hardest hit was the northern part of St. Louis and north St.
Louis County. Kansas City Power & Light reported about 54,000 customers
lost power, with about 22,000 still out of power this morning. About
18,000 Aquila Inc. customers also lost power.\
<http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/D6A59E9DCC751FE48625701B00167AAD?OpenDocument>
<http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20050609/lo_kmbc/2763767>\
<http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/business/11854252.htm>

**20,000 PG&E Customers Lose Power in Sacramento Valley, California**\
A pair of unrelated outages blacked out nearly 20,000 electricity
customers Wednesday in a band from as far south as Dunnigan to Elk Creek
on the west and Willows on the north.

<http://www.chicoer.com/Stories/0,1413,135~25088~2911973,00.html>

**More Storms Hit Michigan, About 10,000 Detroit Edison Customers Lose
Power\
**<http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20050609/lo_wdiv/2764460>

**SCPPA Preparing for Start up on New 310 MW Power Plant**

Southern California Public Power Authority (SCPPA) (Pasadena,
California) has completed construction and is preparing commercial
startup for the \$234 million, 310 megawatt Magnolia Power Project.
[http://powermarketers.netcontentinc.net/newsreader.asp?ppa=8knpp%5EZmrsoiqwYSlj%7DGL%7Dbfek%5C%21](http://powermarketers.netcontentinc.net/newsreader.asp?ppa=8knpp^ZmrsoiqwYSlj}GL}bfek\!)

[**FERC\'s Wood Says Cyber Attack on Power Grid Is a \'Real
Concern\'**](http://intelligencepress.com/subscribers/power/news/p20050609b.html)
<http://intelligencepress.com/>

### Update - Exelon's 1,162 MW Byron 2 Nuclear Unit In Illinois Up to 100%

Bloomberg 07:40, June 9, 2005

**Duke Power's 1,129 MW Catawba 1 Nuke Unit At 100%**

The unit shut on May 23 to fix a problem with the condenser.

Bloomberg 07:40, June 9, 2005

**Southern Co.\'s Vogtle 2 Reactor in Georgia Resumes Operation**

Bloomberg 10:24, June 9, 2005

### Calpine's 281 MW Gas-fired Delta Unit in California Shut June 9

Reuters 14:20, June 9, 2005

#### Petroleum

**Tropical Storm Arlene Approaches Gulf - Chevron Evacuates 600
Workers**

As the first named storm of the 2005 Atlantic Ocean hurricane season,
Arlene developed today in the northwest Caribbean Sea and is expected to
move into the Gulf of Mexico.

Bloomberg 13:56, June 9, 2005

**Update \-- OPEC President Sees Group Keeping Output Over 30-mil b/d**

OPEC is set to maintain actual oil production at more than 30-mil b/d
after a meeting next week in a bid to stabilize prices and may need to
raise output in the third quarter to meet rising demand later this year,
the group\'s president said Thursday.

<http://www.platts.com/Oil/News/4999780.xml?S=n>

[**Problems Force Iraq to Cut Contract
Volumes**](http://www.energyintel.com/DocumentDetail.asp?document_id=150090)\
The State Oil Marketing Organization (Somo) allocated reduced volumes of
Basrah Light crude to most US and European term customers for the second
half of the year, while keeping most Asian volumes intact.\
Oil Daily, June 9, 2005
<http://www.energyintel.com/PublicationHomePage.asp?publication_id=5>

####### UPDATE -- Third Day Iraq's Shipping Operations Halted By Rough Seas

####### Reuters 02:13, June 9, 2005

**Natural Gas**

Nothing to report.

######## Other News

**New Western Kentucky Mines to Boost Region\'s High-sulfur Production**

New underground coal mines being developed in western Kentucky could
boost the high-sulfur coal region\'s annual production by 3 mil-5 mil
t/yr.

######## [**http://www.platts.com/Coal/News/5189838.xml?S=n**](http://www.platts.com/Coal/News/5189838.xml?S=n)  

######## Energy Prices 

+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
|                               | **Latest  | **Week    | **Year     |
|                               | (06       | Ago**     | Ago**      |
|                               | /09/05)** |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
| **CRUDE OIL**                 | 54.15     | 53.46     | 37.60      |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **West Texas Intermediate     |           |           |            |
| US**                          |           |           |            |
|                               |           |           |            |
| \$/Barrel                     |           |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
| **NATURAL GAS**               | 7.22      | 6.63      | 6.04       |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **Henry Hub**                 |           |           |            |
|                               |           |           |            |
| \$/Million Btu                |           |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+

> Source: Reuters

**This Week in Petroleum** from the Energy Information Administration
(EIA)

[*http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/twip/twip.asp*](http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/twip/twip.asp)

Updated on Wednesdays

**Weekly Petroleum Status Report** from EIA**\
**[*http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/weekly_petroleum_status_report/wpsr.html*](http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/weekly_petroleum_status_report/wpsr.html)

Updated after 1:00pm (Eastern time) on Wednesdays

**Natural Gas Weekly Update** from EIA

[*http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/ngw/ngupdate.asp*](http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/ngw/ngupdate.asp)

Updated after 2:00 pm (Eastern time) on Thursdays

**ENSEC threat awareness blog site** from Energy Assurance

[*http://ensec.blogspot.com*](http://ensec.blogspot.com/)