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December 12, 2011
Atmos Energy Corporation will pay a civil penalty of $6.4 million under a consent agreement approved by FERC addressing various flipping and shipper-must-have-title violations by subsidiaries Atmos Energy Marketing, Inc. (AEM) and Trans Louisiana Gas Pipeline, Inc. (Trans La).
December 9, 2011
Frontier Utilities Inc. would pay $28,500 under a settlement with PUCT Staff to resolve allegations that Frontier Utilities was not in full compliance with 15 provisions of the Substantive Rules (39981).
December 6, 2011
BP Energy to Pay $20,000 to Settle Ancillary Shortfall
December 6, 2011
Horizon Power and Light reported its customer count in filing a response at the District of Columbia PSC to concerns raised by the Office of People's Counsel.
November 21, 2011
Young Energy would pay $18,000 under a settlement with PUCT Staff to resolve allegations that Young Energy was not in full compliance with 10 provisions of the Substantive Rules (39920).
November 21, 2011
Stream Spe, Ltd. would pay $20,000 under a settlement with PUCT Staff to resolve allegations that Stream, "in certain limited instances," was not in compliance with several provisions of the Substantive Rules.
November 18, 2011
Liberty Power Corporation has filed a complaint with the District of Columbia PSC regarding the application of the SOS minimum stay rule to a non-residential customer, as Liberty sought an order from the PSC directing Pepco to enroll the customer with Liberty, among other relief.
November 17, 2011
IntelliGen Resources to Pay $20,000 for RRS Shortfall
November 17, 2011
Liberty Power will pay $5,000 under an agreement approved by the Maine PUC to resolve a Staff investigation.
November 17, 2011
Castlebridge Energy Group, LLC requested that the Maryland PSC order Baltimore Gas & Electric to show cause why a delay in testing new gas suppliers' communication with BGE via Extensible Markup Language (XML), which is a pre-requisite to serve customers, is not unreasonable.
November 10, 2011
PUCT Chairman Donna Nelson put REPs on notice that the she will not offer to help REPs which run afoul of the Commission's certification rules in the future, saying that she regretted granting time for dPi Energy to come into compliance rather than revoking the certificate.
November 4, 2011
The Illinois Commerce Commission has opened two proceedings to investigate whether two electric brokers have failed to file an annual recertification report, and whether their ABC licenses should be suspended.
November 2, 2011
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio said that it is appropriate to explore further distinguishing the activities of consultants versus brokers, and suggested that the matter should be addressed in a future rulemaking, as the Commission denied a complaint against Palmer Energy Company filed by…
November 2, 2011
Green Mountain Energy Company has petitioned FERC for a limited, one-time waiver of a New York ISO tariff provision requiring penalties for the withholding of capacity, after Green Mountain said that it, "inadvertently withheld a small amount of capacity from the NYISO installed capacity ('ICAP')…
November 1, 2011
An internal memo dated August 31, 2011 from the PUCT's Oversight and Enforcement Division recommended an administrative penalty against Glacial Energy for several alleged violations relating to its original REP application and ongoing ownership. The memo, at one point, also recommends certificate…
October 20, 2011
Bangor Hydro-Electric has informed the Maine PUC that it has committed a violation of Ch. 304 of the Commission's rules regarding Standards of Conduct, specifically relating to recommendations of competitive electricity providers, due to a quote from a BHE employee included in a third-party press…
October 20, 2011
The District of Columbia Office of People's Counsel has requested that the D.C. PSC investigate a series of claims against Horizon Power and Light made by customers to OPC.
October 14, 2011
updated 1:35 p.m. with statement from Chairman Powelson
October 10, 2011
A proposed order from PUCT docket management would allow TexRep6 LLC, which is owned by Smartcom Energy Technologies, LLC, to maintain its REP certificate and would deny Staff's original petition to revoke the certificate (38732).
October 7, 2011
Constellation Confirms Small Business Gas Service at PECO, PGW
October 7, 2011
Brooklyn Union Gas (National Grid/KeySpan New York) is seeking to involuntarily terminate Blue Rock Energy's right to serve customers at Brooklyn Union, due to a failure to deliver, and Blue Rock Energy has filed a complaint at the New York PSC to stop the termination (Case 11-01982).
October 6, 2011
MXenergy reported to the Connecticut PURA that it erroneously sent early termination fee collection letters to several customers, and "a small percentage" of those customers paid the fee in error as a result.
October 4, 2011
The Connecticut PURA has opened an investigation of Public Power, LLC under Docket 11-10-06.
October 3, 2011
The Pennsylvania PUC issued an annual report on customer complaints for 2010, including data on electric and gas slamming.
October 3, 2011
Taqueria El Zarape (TEZ) and Just Energy Texas, LP have filed a stipulation (38448) to resolve a billing dispute brought before the PUCT which originally implicated larger market issues such as how REPs pass through ERCOT unaccounted for energy (UFE) and RMR charges (4/27/10) .
