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March 11, 2013
A recommended decision from a Pennsylvania ALJ would establish the new bypassable Gas Procurement Charge, reflecting an unbundling of certain supply-related costs currently in base rates, at Peoples TWP LLC.
March 8, 2013
Electricity Maine, LLC has petitioned the Maine PUC for a rulemaking to revise the rules governing Standard Offer and retail supply receivables, and to change the procurement length for Standard Offer contracts.
March 7, 2013
Texas Assigns Docket for Rulemaking Relating to Provider of Last Resort
March 6, 2013
The Retail Energy Supply Association has recommended that the New York PSC adopt a standardized format for ESCO contract renewal letters.
March 6, 2013
Dayton Power & Light's, "claims of impaired financial integrity," for which it is seeking certain nonbypassable riders as part of its new electric security plan, "are self-inflicted and are the direct result of its improper business relationship with DPL Retail," Industrial Energy Users-Ohio alleged…
March 1, 2013
The Pennsylvania PUC adopted without modification a settlement to establish the level of new, bypassable Gas Procurement Charges at the three UGI natural gas distribution companies in Pennsylvania.
February 28, 2013
Interstate Gas Supply, Inc. has recommended that the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio introduce a form of shopping credit for natural gas customers at Duke Energy Ohio due to the inclusion of natural gas procurement costs in nonbypassable base rates.
February 27, 2013
A recent order from the Kentucky PSC will allow more businesses to shop for natural gas supply at Louisville Gas & Electric, by lowering the threshold to take transportation service.
February 18, 2013
The Pennsylvania PUC's final order on an end state retail electric market design contains no substantive changes, and virtually no changes at all, sought by retail suppliers to reduce current barriers to competition which have caused migration to competitive supply to slow to a trickle.
February 15, 2013
Retail suppliers participating in the Met-Ed, Penelec, Penn Power and West Penn Power opt-in customer aggregation program will not have to provide the rate for their eight-month fixed price offer (delivery under which will start in about October 2013) as early as February 2013, the PUC ruled…
February 15, 2013
The Pennsylvania PUC yesterday issued an order regarding various retail electric market enhancement programs at PECO which allows the recovery of implementation costs from retail suppliers through an adjustment to the POR discount rate under certain circumstances.
February 11, 2013
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority directed The Connecticut Light and Power Company and The United Illuminating Company to notify the Authority when any electric supplier serving Connecticut customers is in default at ISO New England, "or when a significant number of any electric…
February 6, 2013
A New York ESCO has proposed that the New York PSC grant local distribution companies expanding natural gas service a rate of return of 20% for new gas plant associated with the expansion of natural gas service to new customers.
February 1, 2013
Detroit Edison has filed with the Michigan PSC its final 10% electric choice cap for 2013.
January 31, 2013
House Republicans in Michigan have included a "review" of the current 10% electric choice cap as a legislative priority.
January 30, 2013
The California PUC adopted a formula to determine the amount of financial security and re-entry fee requirements applicable to Electric Service Providers (ESPs), and also defined the size of customers for which security must be provided.
January 30, 2013
The Pennsylvania PUC will not require electric distribution companies to use a standard script when informing new or moving customers about electric choice, and instead issued messaging to be used in the development of specific EDC language.
January 30, 2013
The Attorney General of the State of New York has proposed regulations to the PSC that would effectively prohibit the offering of fixed rate energy contracts by ESCOs to low-income customers.
January 25, 2013
Consumers Energy has filed its final electric choice cap for the year 2013 with the Michigan PSC.
January 23, 2013
The Retail Energy Supply Association has asked the Maryland PSC to modify the cost recovery mechanism for Baltimore Gas and Electric's natural gas Provider of Last Resort (POLR) Capacity cost rate, under BGE's Rider 7 - Gas Choice and Reliability Charges, such that the POLR charge is recovered…
January 18, 2013
A recommended decision from a Pennsylvania ALJ would establish the level of new, bypassable Gas Procurement Charges at the three UGI natural gas distribution companies in Pennsylvania.
January 14, 2013
A California PUC proposed decision would advance the deadline by which electric service providers must show their monthly compliance with resource adequacy obligations.
January 11, 2013
Bob Stump, the newly designated chair of the Arizona Corporation Commission, wants the Commission to investigate whether electric choice should be introduced to Arizona, according to a report by the Verde Independent .
January 10, 2013
Texas State Representative Byron Cook, Chair of the House Committee on State Affairs, has proposed that the current structure of the Public Utility Commission of Texas be replaced with a single commissioner.
January 10, 2013
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio adopted a stipulation which provides triggers for Columbia Gas' automatic exit from the merchant function for non-residential customers, and adopted mechanisms to allocate any non-shopping customers at that time, and any future non-shopping customers.
