Addressing the parliamentary meeting Tuesday morning in the Capitol in Sacramento, the capital of California, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has called for a new recovery plan to save California from economic stagnation in which she remains entangled.
The governor of California last Wednesday in Sacramento. Photo credits: AP
Never change a winning team. GDF Suez announced Tuesday in a statement that the public contract that binds the group to the state for 2010-2013 was signed December 23. The formalization of this announcement comes a week after the Official Journal published a decree defining new rules for setting regulated prices for natural gas. "This agreement also strengthens and clarifies the conditions of tariff changes through a transparent, automatic and taking into account all costs of the company," said Gérard Mestrallet, CEO of GDF Suez.
Now, each year, the state, which holds more than 35% of GDF Suez, will set in order, the conditions of changing prices for the coming year. Then, while respecting this context, GDF Suez will propose an increase or decrease these rates."The natural gas rates will change based on costs incurred by the company to supply the final customer," the statement said. The new framework provides, inter alia, a review of annual costs out of supply (transmission, distribution, storage …) and quarterly changes in supply costs. Subsequently, these proposals will be subject to approval by the Regulatory Commission of Energy (CRE).
GDF Suez said that rising oil prices will not be reflected in the price of gas.
At mid-session, the stock price GDF Suez wins 0.90% (30.20 euros) to the Paris Bourse, where the Cac 40 in advance of 0.55%.
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Consumer associations and owners want to end abusive billing trustees. Six of them (the Association of responsible ownership (Arc), the General Confederation of Housing (LMA), rural families, CNAFC consumers, UFC-Que Choisir and Union of Women civic and social) challenge the government on Thursday and request the publication of an order prohibiting certain pricing practices clearly. Objective: To achieve greater transparency in contracts of trustees and limit the share of additional fees.
In late October, the Secretary of State for Consumer Affairs, Herve Novelli, has announced that the list of benefits included in the package paid by the owners would be fixed by decree.If they welcome the decision they demanded two years, associations have expressed concern that the Government merely the final text was minima, taking the advice of the National Consumer Affairs September 27, 2007. Notice that as they raise problems of interpretation. They denounce such abuse by the multiplication of the trustees pay benefits when these services should be integrated into the annual management plan.
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