Sempra Energy News

MACQUARIE GROUP is closing in on its third and largest major energy acquisition within a year after being named in the British press as one of three final bidders for the A 2.5 billion Sempra energy trading business.

Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Royal Bank of Scotland is lining up a number of sales aimed at raising more than A 3bn in the new year.

A deal that will see Aberdeen Asset Management acquire Royal Bank of Scotlanda s funds arm is expected to be finalised in the early part of the new year, The Herald has learned.

Aberdeen Asset Management is interested in buying the funds arm of Royal Bank of Scotland , two sources familiar with the situation said, as the bank offloads a raft of assets after a government-backed bailout.

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 10:24 a.m. Assemblyman Joel Anderson may think he's out of trouble now that he's paid a big fine to the FPPC for his attempt at campaign finance money laundering.

San Diego-based Sempra Energy and the Royal Bank of Scotland Group have narrowed to three the list of possible buyers for their commodities trading joint venture, according to reports in The Times of London and Reuters.

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The Friends' award was one of thirty Sempra grants totaling $1 million, awarded to Southern California non-profits, focused on natural resource protection and conservation, environmental education, and environmental health and safety.

Sempra is constructing a natural gas pipeline. The project will carry natural gas from Ensenada to Mexicali.

Sempra Generation said an agreement approved by state regulators yesterday will allow it to build a big solar plant near Las Vegas and provide electricity from the sun cheaper than anyone else.

Deutsche Bank has emerged as a bidder for the joint commodities-trading business of Royal Bank of Scotland and Sempra Energy , a report says.

The nonprofit group Friends of Ballona Wetlands has landed a $50,000 grant to support education programs at the ecological reserve, the group said Monday.

For much of the last three decades, California companies like Sempra Energy and Pacific Gas & Electric have tried to foist expensive, environmentally questionable liquefied natural gas onto this state's consumers.

Energy stocks reversed course and rose slightly Wednesday on a draw down in petroleum inventories, but supplies of gasoline increased.

Our interviewer Steve Player speaks with Joe Householder, SVP, controller, and chief accounting officer of Sempra Energy about his finance career and how the energy company develops its talent.

Solar energy installations in the United States are poised to grow about 50 percent annually in the next three years as the country closes in on Germany, the largest solar market in the world.

The company's have retained Lazard Ltd. to seek bidders for the business, the paper said.

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Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. OVERVIEW Background: During the 2000-01 energy crisis, state officials signed expensive power agreements with Sempra Energy and other big power producers.