March 2, 2012
Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. has petitioned the New York PSC for a declaratory ruling concerning its application of a Minimum Demand for the Market Supply Charge (MSC) capacity component.
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March 1, 2012
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) today finalized an intermediate work plan as part of its Retail Electricity Markets Investigation designed to improve the state's retail electricity market.
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February 29, 2012
The Maryland PSC denied rehearing of its decision to terminate the choice program at Columbia Gas .
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February 28, 2012
Staff of the Maryland PSC has recommended that the Commission deny requests for rehearing of the PSC's decision to terminate the Columbia Gas choice program.
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February 28, 2012
The Maryland PSC has opened a formal rulemaking (RM 46) to address minimum disclosure requirements to govern the obligation of electricity and gas suppliers to post on the internet information regarding services and rates for small commercial and residential gas and electric customers.
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February 27, 2012
The Oregon PUC agreed to open a docket to address generic issues relating to direct access.
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February 24, 2012
John Russell, president and chief executive officer of CMS Energy and subsidiary Consumers Energy, told investors yesterday that there is "no interest" from Gov. Rick Snyder in taking on energy legislation to change PA 286 which passed in 2008, which, among other things, instituted a 10% cap on…
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February 23, 2012
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) this morning disapproved AEP-Ohio's electric security plan (ESP) as it was outlined in a settlement agreement submitted by 21 of 31 parties to the case, and initially approved by PUCO, with modifications, in December .
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February 22, 2012
Gerard Anderson, DTE Energy's chairman, president and CEO, said during an earnings call last week that he, "feel[s] good about the political climate," concerning the potential to expand the current 10% electric choice cap.
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February 17, 2012
FERC has decided to retain its existing policies regarding the analysis of horizontal market power when reviewing transactions under section 203 of the Federal Power Act and in its electric market-based rate program (RM11-14).
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February 17, 2012
The District of Columbia PSC opened Formal Case 1096 to review issues related to electric vehicles.
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February 17, 2012
PUCT Staff have filed a draft Proposal for Publication to amend P.U.C. SUBST. R. 25.361 in order to give ERCOT the authority to conduct pilot projects to evaluate new and emerging technologies, such as energy storage projects, to determine the benefits that these technologies may bring to the ERCOT…
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February 15, 2012
The National Energy Marketers Association filed comments in support of a rehearing request regarding the Maryland PSC's decision to end the choice program at Columbia Gas (see 1/9) .
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February 15, 2012
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has denied FirstEnergy Solutions' requested retail market enhancements at Dayton Power & Light.
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February 10, 2012
AEP said this morning that it plans to file today at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to separate its Ohio businesses and to terminate and replace the Interconnection Agreement for its eastern generating assets with a new power cost sharing arrangement.
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February 9, 2012
The California PUC has directed the investor-owned utilities to file proposals for the calculation of electric service provider security.
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February 8, 2012
A draft California PUC decision would grant Stanford University a requested waiver of the application of the direct access cost responsibility surcharge (CRS) for certain amounts of its load, but would tailor the decision narrowly to the instant circumstances and decline to set a blanket policy for…
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February 8, 2012
CMS Energy, parent of Consumers Energy, told investors yesterday that it is "pretty comfortable" that there will be no change in the current electric retail open access cap in Michigan in the near term.
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February 7, 2012
A California PUC agenda (draft) resolution would institute a rulemaking to consider and adopt a code of conduct, rules, and enforcement procedures governing the conduct of electrical corporations relative to the consideration, formation, and implementation of community choice aggregation (CCA)…
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February 6, 2012
PUCT Staff have filed a draft proposal for publication to exempt certain non-residential secondary voltage service customers from the demand ratchet (39829).
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February 6, 2012
AEP Ohio will not be required to immediately revise its detailed implementation plan (DIP) regarding the allocation of discounted capacity to comply with a recent clarification from PUCO, an Ohio attorney examiner held Friday.
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February 3, 2012
Retail suppliers and other competitive supply parties have asked the California PUC to consider the further unbundling of distribution rates at Pacific Gas & Electric.
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February 2, 2012
The New Hampshire legislature is conducting a hearing today on a bill (House Bill 1238) which would require Public Service of New Hampshire (PSNH) to divest its fossil, hydro, and biomass generation assets by December 31, 2013.
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February 1, 2012
Marking its 15th year of service, the National Energy Marketers Association recently met in executive session and adopted policy priorities for 2012.
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February 1, 2012
Consumers Energy has filed its final electric choice cap for the year 2012 with the Michigan PSC.
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