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December 17, 2010
FERC Approves FirstEnergy-Allegheny Merger In an unsurprising decision given its merger review history, FERC approved the merger of FirstEnergy Corp. and Allegheny Energy without any conditions relating to mitigation of market power. In doing so, FERC rejected protests from the Pennsylvania Office…
December 17, 2010
AEP Ohio has withdrawn a stipulation governing its Significantly Excessive Earnings Test which also would have impacted rates at Columbus Southern Power and committed signatories to supporting the pending merger of Columbus Southern Power and Ohio Power into a single operating company.
December 17, 2010
The New York PSC instituted a proceeding to review Lost And Unaccounted For gas at Consolidated Edison, and also instituted a review of stranded natural gas capacity costs at New York State Electric and Gas.
December 17, 2010
The California PUC has ordered that Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Diego Gas & Electric Company, and Southern California Edison Company shall procure Combined Heat and Power resources on behalf of electric service providers (ESPs) and community choice aggregators (CCAs), with costs recovered…
December 16, 2010
Md. PSC Eliminates Minimum Stay in BGE Gas Tariff The Maryland PSC approved Baltimore Gas & Electric's revisions to its Gas Service Tariff to remove a provision from Rate Schedules C and D that required customers to remain with a supplier for at least three months prior to switching to another…
December 16, 2010
As first reported in our live blog yesterday, the Maryland PSC has suspended Baltimore Gas & Electric's electric purchase of receivables tariff revisions relating to sales tax, and directed the supplier coordination working group to address the issues ( 12/14 ).
December 15, 2010
Delaware PSC Sets Workshop on Net Metering Changes The Delaware PSC has scheduled a workshop on revisions to its net metering rules, required under SB 267, after receiving stakeholder comment on a Staff proposal (Reg. Dckt. No. 49). SB 267 allows customers to aggregate individual meters for the…
December 15, 2010
A recommended decision in Niagara Mohawk's rate case needs to reconcile disparate treatment of true-ups for the Merchant Function Charge (MFC) paid by full service customers and the POR discount rate, New York PSC Staff said in a brief on exceptions (10-E-0050). Staff did not opine on its preference…
December 14, 2010
PPL Electric Utilities has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC its final calculation of its 2011 Transmission Service Charge for the period January 1, 2011 through May 31, 2011 (M-2010-2207826).
December 14, 2010
The Texas Office of Public Utility Counsel has endorsed a mechanism that would allow current customers of financial prepaid, or advance pay, products to continue receiving this type of prepaid service despite proposed new rules which would require that all prepaid service in Texas be conducted…
December 14, 2010
United Illuminating is seeking to move the recovery of the Generation Service Charge (GSC) Administrative Adder from the bypassable Generation Service Charge rate component to the Non-Bypassable Federally Mandated Congestion Charge (NBFMCC) rate component (10-08-01).
December 13, 2010
Staff of the New York Public Service Commission has proposed lowering the cutoff for mandatory hourly pricing at Orange & Rockland to 300 kW from the current 500 kW cutoff. Staff's recommendation came in testimony in O&R's electric rate case (10-E-0362).
December 13, 2010
A stipulation in Texas-New Mexico Power's rate case would increase the residential customer charge but not implement the significant change in rate design originally sought by TNMP which would have placed 50% of the total revenue requirement in a fixed monthly charge (38480).
December 10, 2010
PUCT Staff filed a draft report on the scope of competition in the electric markets of Texas in Project No. 38264.
December 10, 2010
PUCT Staff have filed a proposal for adoption which would institute a distribution cost recovery factor (DCRF) to be charged to REPs, and would shorten the notice to REPs of the new rate under the DCRF from 45 days to 35 days (38298).
December 8, 2010
National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation has filed further revisions to its imbalance and cash-out procedures with the New York PSC, adding a "safe harbor" provision to the pricing of imbalances.
December 8, 2010
Halifax-American Energy Co., a unit of Freedom Energy Logistics which acts as an agent for South Jersey Energy Co., has filed a Freedom of Information Law Request with the New York PSC seeking access to and disclosure of the variable energy price contracts of several ESCOs.
December 7, 2010
Pacific Gas & Electric is seeking to turn ratepayers into a source of venture capital, the Western Power Trading Forum, Direct Access Customer Coalition, and the Marin Energy Authority (collectively, the competitive supply parties) said in a protest at the California PUC concerning a proposed…
December 7, 2010
Several REPs currently offering prepaid service in ERCOT without the use of a customer prepayment device or system (defined here as advanced pay, also known as financial prepaid service) urged the PUCT to not eliminate the ability of REPs to offer prepaid service based on estimated usage for those…
December 6, 2010
Two Texas ALJs have recommended that the PUCT deny CenterPoint Energy's alternative cost recovery mechanism which would have significantly raised the fixed customer charge for residential customers. The proposal was an alternative to CenterPoint’s original request for a Distribution Cost Recovery…
December 3, 2010
Nelson Suggests Price Comparison Tool for Texas Power to Choose Commissioner Donna Nelson has proposed that the PUCT's Power to Choose website offer a savings and comparison calculator so that customers may compare savings under different product offers as well as their current rate. Nelson said…
December 3, 2010
PUCT Commissioners discussed at yesterday's open meeting several areas in which they may seek additional legislative guidance or authority through recommendations in the scope of competition report. Commissioners did not adopt a final report with legislative recommendations at yesterday's meeting…
December 3, 2010
The Michigan PSC has directed the electric distribution utilities to file specific tariffs governing the participation of retail customers in RTO markets, but delayed the filing of such tariffs until further orders from FERC regarding participation of aggregators of retail customers (ARCs), which…
December 2, 2010
The Maryland PSC is likely to open additional proceedings regarding rules governing the marketing of electric and natural gas suppliers and associated consumer protections, PSC Chairman Douglas Nazarian said during yesterday's administrative meeting.
December 1, 2010
Entergy Texas, Inc. filed an unopposed motion to sever issues related to Competitive Generation Service (CGS) from the remaining settled issues in Docket 37744, addressing Entergy's rates and reconciled fuel costs. Entergy said that parties active in the Competitive Generation Service discussions…
