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December 5, 2013
DTE Gas (MichCon) has scaled back certain elements of its proposal to require alternative gas suppliers to post rates to a utility-run rate comparison website, but suppliers and Michigan PSC Staff raised concerns with several remaining proposals.
December 3, 2013
ERCOT filed with the Public Utility Commission of Texas its report on the monthly coincident peak (4CP) Loads in the ERCOT system for the months of June, July, August and September 2013 (2013 4CP Report). The 4CP dates were June 27, July 31, August 7, and September 3. The report, including load by…
December 3, 2013
Two Michigan utilities have filed tariffs with the PSC to further restrict the types of customers eligible to take electric customer choice.
December 2, 2013
The New Hampshire PUC has ruled that, under current law, electric suppliers are not subject to the assessment levied on various regulated entities to fund the Commission.
November 21, 2013
The Public Utility Commission of Texas has created two dockets concerning the sharing of customer information.
November 21, 2013
A report from the Michigan PSC and Michigan Energy Office concerning electric choice offers no policy recommendations, and only outlines several alternatives.
November 18, 2013
The New York PSC has ruled that it does not have jurisdiction over publicly available electric vehicle charging stations.
November 15, 2013
Parties have informed the Public Utility Commission of Texas that they have reached an agreement in principle in the rate unbundling proceeding for Sharyland Utilities, L.P., covering the Stanton, Colorado City, Brady, and Celeste divisions which are being transitioned to retail choice.
November 15, 2013
The Pennsylvania PUC has adopted a definition for fixed price electricity contracts that bans any and all pass-throughs under such contracts.
November 14, 2013
In a wide-ranging retail market order issued yesterday, the Maine PUC said that it will reopen the customer protection provisions of Chapter 305 to consider the following provisions:
November 11, 2013
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed a draft proposal for adoption that would, consistent with recent legislation, require retail electric providers to send a copy of a disconnection notice to municipalities when ordering the disconnection of certain multi-family dwellings.
November 11, 2013
The Illinois Commerce Commission has approved a first notice order to adopt rules concerning procedures governing opt-in and opt-out municipal aggregations. The rules will now be sent to the Secretary of State.
November 5, 2013
Texas-New Mexico Power Company has filed at the Public Utility Commission of Texas revisions to Rider HCRF - Hurricane Cost Recovery Factor, in order to terminate collection of such approved Hurricane Ike restoration recovery costs prior to any over-collection.
November 5, 2013
Several Texas retail electric providers have warned the Public Utility Commission of Texas that introducing retail choice to Sharyland Utilities' former Cap Rock service areas during the summer -- if a rate case schedule does not permit a May 1, 2014 transition to competition as originally…
October 28, 2013
A bill backed by retail electric suppliers has been introduced into the Pennsylvania Senate to auction off default service electric customers to retail electric generation suppliers (EGS), and transition default service to a pure backstop service.
October 18, 2013
The California PUC adopted a final order setting mandates for load serving entities, including competitive electric service providers, to procure electricity storage resources
October 18, 2013
The Michigan PSC has directed Cloverland Electric Cooperative to allow MPI Acquisition, LLC to purchase electric supply from a competitive supplier in an amount which does not exceed the 10% statutory cap, but which also does not fully serve MPI Acquisition's load.
October 17, 2013
In updating rules related to metering (largely relating to a smart meter opt-out, click here for related story ), the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio declined a request from a retail supplier for the provision of de-identified customer energy usage data from advanced meters to retail suppliers.
October 16, 2013
The Michigan Energy Office issued a draft report regarding electric choice policy options
October 16, 2013
DTE Gas Company (MichCon) has filed with the Michigan PSC changes to its voluntarily offered natural gas customer choice program, including the creation of a mandatory supplier rate board, and PSC Staff review of pricing
October 11, 2013
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has scheduled for December 10 a workshop concerning a review of the certain default service rules contained in Chapter 4901:1-35, Ohio Administrative Code.
October 8, 2013
Staff of the New Jersey BPU have issued for comment a series of questions relating to the potential removal of the RPS requirement from the BGS procurement process, and also asked about transferring the RPS obligation of retail suppliers to the electric distribution companies.
October 7, 2013
Blaming Ohio's "energy policy transition to market," Ormet announced that it was shutting down its Hannibal, Ohio aluminum smelting plant after the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio declined to fully grant Ormet's latest request for subsidized electric rates.
October 7, 2013
The capital requirements of Texas retail electric providers should be increased if changes to the ERCOT market, specifically higher system-wide offer caps, impose increased risks on REPs, several transmission and distribution utilities told the Public Utility Commission of Texas.
October 7, 2013
AEP Ohio has sought a waiver to its corporate separation plan from the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to allow it to retain contractual entitlements from generating resources owned by Ohio Valley Electric Corporation (OVEC), as other owners of OVEC have not consented to the assumption of these…
