SAN DIEGO-- Energy services holding company Sempra Energy lowered the high end of its 2013 guidance range on Thursday, sending its shares lower in midday trading. The company said it now expects 2013 earnings of $4.30 to $4.60 per share.
Mitsui, Mitsubishi and Nippon Yusen reached a joint venture agreement with the U.S. firm Sempra Energy. The project, estimated to cost $10 billion, plans to produce 12 million tons of liquefied natural gas a year by 2017, or equivalent to 10% of annual Japanese demand. The Nikkei's Sachiko Kishida reports.
*Mexico imports record amounts of US natural gas. The two countries have abruptly changed positions over the past decade: Mexico, once the growing energy power, is struggling to maintain production; the United States, once a guaranteed importer, is enjoying a lucrative energy boom.
May 1- Privately held U.S. power company LS Power said Wednesday it completed the first 19- megawatt block of the 127- MW Arlington Valley II solar photovoltaic power plant in Arizona. Japanese electronics firm Kyocera Corp and South Korea's Hyundai Solar supplied the photovoltaic panels, LS Power said.
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HOUSTON, April 30- Southern California Edison may decide to retire one or both reactors at its San Onofre nuclear station by year end if U.S. nuclear regulators deny its request to restart one of the station's damaged nuclear reactors, said Ted Craver, chief executive of SCE parent Edison International on Tuesday.
HOUSTON, April 30- If U.S. nuclear regulators deny Southern California Edison's request to restart one of the damaged San Onofre nuclear reactors, the utility may decide to retire one or both units by year-end, said Ted Craver, chief executive of SCE parent Edison International on Tuesday.
*Gulf states Louisiana to power proposed cameron lng export facility. *Signed an agreement with cameron lng to supply up to 200 mw of additional. *Says power contract between Entergy gulf states Louisiana and cameron lng is.
HOUSTON, April 10- Nuclear regulators on Wednesday said a license request change submitted by operators of the damaged San Onofre nuclear station in California may not represent an increased safety risk, according to a release.
HOUSTON, March 18- Southern California Edison, operator of the shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant in California, submitted additional analysis to nuclear regulators to demonstrate that the 1,070- megawatt Unit 2 can be restarted safely, the utility said on Monday.
March 14- The costs to California residents to meet the ambitious goal of using renewable power for one-third of the state's electric needs by 2020 are beginning to come down, according to a state regulatory report.
March 7- More than one-third of U.S. nuclear power plants suffered safety-related incidents over the past three years, and nuclear regulators and plant operators need to improve inspections to prevent such events, the Union of Concerned Scientists said in a report on Thursday.
HOUSTON, Feb 28- Southern California Edison, operator of the shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant in California, and its regulators are discussing ways the utility can avoid a lengthy public airing of problems that led to a year-long shutdown of the twin reactors.
NEW YORK, Feb 22- A free trade agreement between the United States and Europe could open new markets for domestic natural gas, but without access to big growth Asian markets there still may not be enough demand to launch the export revolution that the industry desires.
*LNG exports planned from Elba Island near Savannah, Georgia. NEW YORK, Jan 28- With U.S. natural gas prices stuck at much less than half global levels, Royal Dutch Shell and Kinder Morgan Inc said on Monday they are teaming up to export liquefied natural gas from a terminal that was originally built to import gas.
HOUSTON, Dec 17- The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission may issue a decision in March on whether operators of the damaged San Onofre Unit 2 nuclear reactor in California can restart the unit, according to a timeline on the agency's website.