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December 16, 2010
Energy Management Resources of Missouri Fined $100, Receives Md. Broker License The Maryland PSC fined Energy Management Resources of Missouri, Inc. (EMR) $100 for brokering electric service without the requisite license and granted EMR an electric broker license to serve non-residential customers…
December 15, 2010
BlueStar Energy Services, Inc. has petitioned the Illinois Commerce Commission to rule on several pending motions in its complaint against Ameren concerning the rescission period.
December 15, 2010
Notwithstanding Zahed Lateef's proposal to place ownership of dPi Energy into a trust over which he has no control, PUCT Staff is still seeking revocation of dPi Energy's REP certificate, with Staff alleging in testimony that, "[i]t appears that Mr. Lateef has been convicted and found liable for…
December 2, 2010
The Maryland PSC fined Peninsula Energy Services Company, Inc. $1,826.22 for acting as a gas supplier without the requisite license, and granted Peninsula Energy Services a license to operate as a gas supplier and broker serving non-residential customers.
November 29, 2010
United Illuminating has informed Cianbro Energy, LLC that UI considers Cianbro Energy to be in material breach of Cianbro's obligations under the supplier service agreement executed with UI, due to an unpaid invoice.
November 24, 2010
Ontario to Extend Off-Peak Pricing Period A long-term energy plan from the Ontario provincial government will advance the start of the off-peak usage hours for Regulated Price Plan customers to 7 p.m., rather than the current 9 p.m. start time. The change is to take affect for the May 2011 Regulated…
November 23, 2010
Calif. PUC Adds Nonbypassable Charge Issues to Phase III of Direct Access Proceeding The California PUC has added issues relating to nonbypassable charges for departing load, referred to as the "power charge indifference amount" (PCIA), to Phase III of the direct access re-opening proceeding…
November 19, 2010
Champion Energy Services would pay $30,000 under a settlement with PUCT Staff to resolve allegations from Staff that Champion violated 12 provisions of the Substantive Rules relating to consumer protection (38905).
November 19, 2010
The Ontario Energy Board has issued an administrative penalty and costs totaling up to $299,000 against Summitt Energy Management related to sales agent activities that the Board found contravened the Ontario Energy Board Act, 1998 (all dollar amounts Canadian).
November 10, 2010
The Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court's decision to dismiss a lawsuit against Stream Energy and affiliated companies (collectively, Stream), finding that the contract which the plaintiff, Perry Betts, had with Stream's marketing arm Ignite was not unenforceable merely…
November 9, 2010
Zahed "Ed" Lateef, owner of dPi Energy, LLC, intends to divest 100% of the ownership of dPi held by members of the Lateef family so that dPi Energy can receive an amendment to its Texas REP certificate which is currently being contested by Staff for, among other reasons, Lateef's prior involvement…
November 8, 2010
The Connecticut DPUC issued a Notice of Violation and Assessment of Civil Penalty against Starion Energy for what the Department said were violations of Connecticut General Statutes §§ 16-245o(e), 16-245o(h), and 16-245(g)(2), relating to, among other things, authorization for customer switches and…
November 5, 2010
dPi Energy has agreed to the entry of a consent order by the PUCT under which dPi would pay an administrative penalty of $104,250 for its non-compliance with 27 provisions of the Substantive Rules as alleged by Staff in a Notice of Violation in Docket 38384.
November 5, 2010
Staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio and Just Energy have entered into a stipulation to resolve customer complaints received by PUCO, and Staff's earlier recommendation to suspend Just Energy's gas supplier certificate (02-1828-GA-CRS).
November 4, 2010
The Maryland PSC took under advisement the application of Affinity Energy Management for an electric broker license after Staff recommended granting the license, and fining the broker $22,500 for its operations in the state prior to licensure.
November 1, 2010
The Retail Energy Supply Association has filed a petition at the Pennsylvania PUC for a declaratory order regarding the ability of home rule municipalities to conduct opt-out aggregations under the current legislative regime (P-2010-2207062).
October 29, 2010
FERC has accepted a settlement which compels North America Power Partners to pay a civil penalty of $500,000 and disgorge $2.2 million, plus interest, in unjust profits, relating to FERC Enforcement Staff's allegations that North America Power Partners engaged in a fraudulent scheme or artifice…
October 26, 2010
Tara Energy, LLC would pay $13,000 under a settlement with PUCT Staff to resolve allegations from PUCT Staff that Tara Energy was not in compliance with nine provisions of the Substantive Rules (Docket 38839).
October 25, 2010
The Office of the Ohio Consumers' Counsel, along with two gas marketers and other parties, filed a complaint against Interstate Gas Supply at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio concerning IGS' use of the Columbia Retail Energy trade name (10-2395-GA-CSS).
October 20, 2010
The Maine PUC has initiated an investigation of Central Maine Power Company's credit and collection practices and how such practices and related accounting methods may have influenced CMP's Standard Offer-related uncollectible balances and write-offs (2010-327).
October 14, 2010
TexRep6, LLC said that it has hired Sequoia Advisors to meet the risk management and other technical fitness requirements of PUCT Subst. R. 25.107, but still has not completed financing to meet the financial requirements of §25.107.
October 14, 2010
The Connecticut DPUC has revoked the license of Turris Associates LLC to operate as an electric aggregator, finding that Turris, "has failed to comply with the provisions of Conn. Gen. Stat. §16-245(l)(5)."
October 14, 2010
PUCT Chairman Barry Smitherman has recommended that the Commission reject a proposed settlement between AllStar Energy (TexRep 5 LLC) and Commission Staff concerning AllStar's application for an amended REP certificate and Staff's counter-petition to revoke AllStar's certificate, with Smitherman…
October 13, 2010
FERC has opened a proceeding pursuant to section 206 of the Federal Power Act to determine whether Shell Energy North America (US), LP's market-based rate authority in the Central and Southwest (CSWS, American Electric Power-West) balancing authority area remains just and reasonable after Shell's…
October 13, 2010
The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a civil investigation into competitive issues concerning certain practices and policies of the Entergy utility companies - Entergy Arkansas, Inc.; Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, LLC; Entergy Louisiana, LLC; Entergy Mississippi, Inc.; Entergy New Orleans, Inc…
