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January 4, 2012
Michigan Gas Utilities Corporation has proposed a new level for the Reservation Charge applicable to competitive suppliers, as well as an annual true-up of the Reservation Charge revenues with actual pipeline demand, supply, and reservation costs, in an application to implement a gas cost recovery…
January 3, 2012
Pacific Gas & Electric has filed an application with the California PUC to modify the fees charged for various services provided to electric service providers and community choice aggregators, which includes an increase in certain consolidated billing fees.
December 30, 2011
The Maryland Consumer Education and Customer Choice Workgroup (PC 25), tasked by statute with developing an electric choice education plan, has filed a final report with the Maryland PSC which finds that the primary purpose of any PSC efforts should be to inform customers about electric Choice, "not…
December 28, 2011
National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation has filed tariffs with the New York PSC to essentially "unbundle" one of its current low-income assistance programs, to allow customers served by ESCOs to receive service under the program as they would if they were sale service customers.
December 28, 2011
Central Hudson Gas & Electric has submitted tariff amendments to the New York PSC to make Winter Bundled Sales (WBS) Service mandatory for retail gas suppliers serving Service Classification Nos. 6, 12 & 13 customers.
December 26, 2011
Recent PUCO orders concerning electric security plans at Duke Energy Ohio and AEP Ohio provide Duke Energy Ohio with an, "undue preference and advantage," due to the disparate treatment of corporate separation plans addressing the separation of generation from the distribution utilities, AEP Ohio…
December 22, 2011
Texas State Rep. Phil King has written a letter to the PUCT asking the Commission to consider, "how we may be able to set up a system that does not punish REPs for being prudent in purchasing electricity in advance when POLR rates drop drastically when the MCPE goes negative."
December 21, 2011
The New York PSC has approved a voluntary Time of Use generation rate option for Service Classification No. 2 - Non-Demand (SC2-ND) customers at Niagara Mohawk.
December 21, 2011
The New Hampshire PUC has approved the nonbypassable recovery of certain supply costs related to PPAs that Public Service Company of New Hampshire will execute with several wood-burning generators (DE 11-184).
December 19, 2011
Opt-in auctions to place retail electric customers in Pennsylvania on competitive supply would not include service prior to June 1, 2013 under a tentative PUC intermediate retail market workplan.
December 16, 2011
The New York PSC approved tariffs at Niagara Mohawk to allow SC-3 Customers with demands below the 250 kW threshold and SC-2 Demand Customers to voluntarily elect hourly pricing for commodity supply from NiMo.
December 16, 2011
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) yesterday issued a proposed intermediate work plan as part of its Retail Electricity Markets Investigation designed to improve the state's retail electricity market.
December 16, 2011
The Pennsylvania PUC, via Secretarial Letter, ordered eight of the state's electric distribution companies (EDCs) to mail a postcard promoting electric shopping to small volume customers.
December 14, 2011
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved a modified stipulation establishing the AEP Ohio companies' electric security plan governing default service for the period 2012 through May 31, 2016, which revises the amount of "discounted" capacity made available to competitive retail suppliers (11…
December 12, 2011
The Massachusetts DPU rejected a proposed cost recovery mechanism from Fitchburg Gas & Electric (Unitil) regarding RECs to be procured under a long-term REC contract, finding that, "because even a small reduction in basic service prices could result ... the Company's proposed cost recovery mechanism…
December 12, 2011
Interstate Gas Supply has asked the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to cap the amount of discounted capacity available to governmental aggregations which would otherwise be made available under a pending non-unanimous settlement regarding AEP Ohio's electric security plan.
December 9, 2011
PUCT Commission Advising has filed a draft preliminary order addressing a list of issues concerning Sharyland Utilities' proposal to transition the four former Cap Rock service areas to retail competition (39592).
December 8, 2011
New Jersey will "consider" expanding dynamic pricing under its final energy master plan .
December 7, 2011
Texas State Representative Jim Pitts has asked the PUCT to review the current rule prohibiting electric offers to prepaid residential customers in excess of the Provider of Last Resort charge, stating that this rule negatively impacts prepaid providers who hedge.
December 6, 2011
"[M]ore than half of U.S. states allow retail competition for large industrial or commercial customers, [but] few today have competitive electricity retail markets at the residential level," says a new report by MIT.
December 5, 2011
Consumers Energy has announced the cancellation of a proposed clean coal plant project near Bay City and the anticipated suspension of operation of seven smaller coal-fired units in 2015.
December 2, 2011
Maryland PSC Staff have sought stakeholder comment on Public Utilities Article §7-507(j) which requires that an electricity supplier, "post on the Internet information that is readily understandable about its services and rates for small commercial and residential electric customers," as Staff noted…
December 2, 2011
The California PUC adopted as final new rules governing security requirements applicable to electric service providers, and adjustments to the Market Price Benchmark (MPB) used to determine the nonbypassable indifference charges assigned to customers leaving bundled utility service (Rulemaking 07-05…
December 2, 2011
PUCT Staff have filed a draft recommendation for a proposal for publication which would provide that energy storage equipment or facilities would be settled at the node when charging, and that such transactions would be considered wholesale transactions and would generally not be subject to…
December 1, 2011
The PUCT this morning set the 2012 interest rate apllicable to REPs. Texas electric customers who are over-billed will be paid 0.22 percent interest in 2012, while customers will receive 0.12 percent interest on deposits with REPs.
