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March 14, 2011
Niagara Mohawk would lower the mandatory hourly pricing threshold to 250 kW effective with the June 2013 billing cycle, under an implementation plan filed with the New York PSC (10-E-0050).
March 14, 2011
Connecticut lawmakers have drafted language for SB 1, essentially incorporating language nearly identical to the language of SB 493 which was vetoed in the 2010 session.
March 10, 2011
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio Commissioner Cheryl Roberto said in a dissent yesterday that the Commission's decision on the payment of a credit to Columbus Southern Power customers under the Significantly Excessive Earnings Test (SEET) does not exclude customers taking competitive supply…
March 8, 2011
Several direct access parties have petitioned the California PUC for an immediate ruling to stay any changes to the Power Charge Indifference Amount (PCIA) calculation at Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric until a final decision by the PUC regarding direct access exit fees (R.…
March 7, 2011
Retail gas suppliers could begin serving customers in what are currently the Kokomo Gas and Fuel and the Northern Indiana Fuel and Light Company Inc. territories in Indiana within two months as the operating companies are merged into affiliate Northern Indiana Public Service Company and opened to…
March 7, 2011
An Illinois ALJ would direct Ameren to revise its electric tariff with respect to the rescission period to apply a three day rescission period for internet enrollments of mass market customers, rather than the 10-day period provided for in the tariff, under a proposed order issued Friday (Docket…
March 2, 2011
A consultant's "preferred" method of transferring Sharyland's Stanton and Colorado City divisions from the Southwest Power Pool to ERCOT is not viable, but two other alternatives which contemplate a complete transfer of the divisions into ERCOT would still benefit customers, Sharyland said in…
February 28, 2011
Illinois' current and proposed rules regarding electric agent, broker and consultant licensing "wrongly impl[y] that the existence of any agreement between a supplier and an ABC renders the ABC no longer independent, or potentially makes them an affiliate of the supplier," Constellation NewEnergy…
February 25, 2011
PUCT Adopts Rule Clarifying ERCOT Oversight
February 25, 2011
PUCT Commissioners discussed pending changes to rules applicable to prepaid electric service under Subst. R. 25.498 yesterday, though Commissioners did not vote on a final order (38675).
February 24, 2011
More than one month after voting on the final rules, the Pennsylvania PUC has served on parties a final written order concerning the competitive retail gas market, addressing issues such as the Price to Compare, Purchase of Receivables, and capacity release (Docket L-2008-2069114).
February 23, 2011
Aggie Energy to Offer Partial Renewable Products Aggie Energy, offered by broker Branded Retail Energy Company and supplied by Champion Energy Services, said yesterday that it will begin offering partial renewable plans in a bid to make rates more affordable to customers. Previously, Aggie Energy…
February 23, 2011
Illinois Commerce Commission Staff have asked the Commission to suspend an exceptions deadline contemplated by a proposed First Notice Order regarding electric consumer protection rules, so that parties may have the benefit of actual rule language when drafting exceptions (Docket 09-0592).
February 22, 2011
Washington Gas Light has filed revised District of Columbia tariff changes to Rate Schedule No. 3 (Interruptible Sales Service), Rate Schedule No. 3A (Interruptible Delivery Service) and Rate Schedule No. 6 (Small Commercial Aggregation Pilot), which WGL said are designed to ensure that competitive…
February 18, 2011
PUCT Staff have asked that the Commission address several threshold policy issues regarding prepaid electric service at the February 24 open meeting to inform Staff's development of a formal proposal for adoption regarding revised Subst. R. 25.498 (Project 38675).
February 17, 2011
Pennsylvania customers will have the right to restrict the sharing of all of their information, and not just certain data, from being included on eligible customer lists (ECL) provided by utilities to electric suppliers under a supersedeas from the Commonwealth Court; however, the supersedeas will…
February 11, 2011
PUCT Chairman Barry Smitherman believes that state lawmakers should use the Sunset review process to engage in a holistic review of the PUCT, ERCOT, and Railroad Commission, and should start "with a blank sheet of paper."
February 10, 2011
During an earnings call yesterday, Gerard Anderson, DTE Energy President and CEO, said that proponents of raising the electric choice cap are not getting any traction, and that Michigan's new governor, Rick Snyder, in particular understands that choice advocates are looking for a "free option."
February 9, 2011
A settlement among several parties would approve Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania's petition to convert its accounting methodology for gas storage inventory from an annual Last-in, First-out (LIFO) methodology to a weighted average cost of gas (WACOG) methodology with several clarifications…
February 9, 2011
Illinois' Office of Retail Market Development has asked electric suppliers to informally comment on the reasons for the lack of residential competition at Ameren.
February 9, 2011
Columbia Gas of Ohio has petitioned PUCO to delay the necessary posting of deposits for new winning SSO suppliers until the service start date of April 1, 2011 ( see related story for auction results ).
February 8, 2011
Duke Energy Ohio has agreed, as part of its market rate offer (MRO) application, to institute an electric Purchase of Receivables program, should the MRO application be approved (10-2586-EL-SSO).
February 7, 2011
PUCT Staff have filed in Project No. 38338 a proposed order that would provide that ERCOT's annual budget is subject to Commission review, but which tweaks other aspects of an earlier draft of rules meant to clarify and codify the Commission's existing authority over ERCOT ( see 8/13 ).
February 4, 2011
The District of Columbia PSC adopted updated energy utility affiliate code of conduct rules (FC 1009, 3/10/09 ).
February 4, 2011
PUCT Commissioners agreed to adopt provisions in a proposal for decision relating to the customer charge at CenterPoint Energy, in voting on a final order in CenterPoint's rate case (Docket 38339).
