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Energy, most read: Wall Street giants jockey to run sale of Fla. utility

SNL Energy presents the most read stories for the week ended March 9.

1. Wall Street giants jockey to run sale of Jacksonville, Fla., utility

Seven Wall Street investment banks are working to woo Jacksonville, Fla., as the city contemplates selling its electric utility, JEA, with most of the firms framing the current market as primed for municipal asset purchases or partnerships.

2. Creditors to take over 4 of Exelon's Texas merchant power plants

Exelon Generation Co. LLC's merchant unit in Texas is moving through bankruptcy and nearing the confirmation of a plan to turn four gas-fired power plants over to seven creditors.

3. LNG industry would get 'existential shock' from Trump steel tariff, experts say

President Donald Trump's announcement that the U.S. will impose a 25% tariff on imported steel could have a huge impact on the domestic LNG industry, where proposed export projects with multibillion-dollar price tags could become uncompetitive if costs rise for a key material in liquefaction facilities and their supporting pipelines, experts warned.

4. Tax changes trigger billions in write-downs for group of US pipeline companies

While U.S. energy pipeline companies expect the recently reduced corporate tax rate to ultimately benefit their balance sheets, some midstream businesses took significant fourth-quarter 2017 earnings hits due to the diminished value of future tax breaks.

5. Replacing Clean Power Plan with efficiency focus may still challenge coal

Replacing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan with a policy emphasizing efficiency improvements to lower carbon dioxide emissions could still trouble some U.S. coal plants, industry supporters warned.