November 2, 2010
The Delaware PSC should revise its regulations to permit the freezing of the minimum cumulative percentage requirements for the RPS and solar RPS carve-out for all electric service providers, not only Commission-regulated utilities, the Retail Energy Supply Association said in comments to the PSC…
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November 2, 2010
Dominion East Ohio has filed tariff changes which would limit the rate that competitive suppliers could charge under the tariffed "Monthly Variable Rate Commodity Service," which serves as a backstop for customers whose competitive supply contract is not renewed.
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October 28, 2010
The Georgia PSC adjudicated Atlanta Gas Light's rate case at its meeting yesterday, authorizing a $26.7 million increase in AGL's revenue requirement, compared with AGL's requested $48.2 million increase. A final written order was not issued immediately, and is expected to be issued within the next…
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October 26, 2010
The Ontario Energy Board denied the relief requested by several competitive energy suppliers regarding the treatment of renewals during the period in which the Board has yet to finalize new disclosure statements required to be provided to customers in order to perform automatic renewals.
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October 25, 2010
Several retail energy suppliers have informed the Ontario Energy Board that their renewal activities will be constrained by the lack of new final regulations governing the renewal process.
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October 22, 2010
PUCT Chairman Barry Smitherman reiterated his opposition to draft proposed rule §25.107(i)(3), which would require Commission pre-approval for REP changes in control (37685). The Commission will consider Staff's draft proposal for adoption at today's open meeting ( Matters, 10/8/10 ).
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October 21, 2010
PECO has proposed changes to its Electric Generation Supplier (EGS) tariff to modify the process for estimating a supplier's load requirements.
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October 21, 2010
An interim order which would withdraw proposed electric consumer protection rules in Illinois is set for consideration by the Illinois Commerce Commission on October 26 (Docket 09-0592), prompted by the upcoming one-year deadline since the rules were first noticed, and continuing work by an ALJ to…
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October 20, 2010
The Small Customer Marketer Coalition has opposed several tariff revisions filed by National Fuel Gas Distribution Corp. in New York to modify its treatment of imbalances for Supplier Transportation, Balancing and Aggregation (STBA) service.
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October 20, 2010
The Pennsylvania PUC's law bureau is "looking at" the issue of home rule municipalities conducting opt-out municipal aggregations under their home rule charters.
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October 19, 2010
Md. Staff Recommend Commission Note IGS Filing to Use Columbia Retail Energy Trade Name
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October 19, 2010
Pacific Gas & Electric said that its acceptance of six-month Notices of Intent from legacy direct-access eligible customers during the period between March 11, 2010 and April 11, 2010 complied with the California PUC's order regarding the direct access load cap and its own tariffs (R. 07-05-025).
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October 18, 2010
A proposed settlement in Pacific Gas & Electric's general rate case (A. 09-12-020 et. al.) would eliminate PG&E's proposed revenue requirement for customer retention activities.
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October 18, 2010
Northern Indiana Fuel and Light would offer retail natural gas choice to customers as part of its merger into affiliate Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO).
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October 15, 2010
The Pennsylvania PUC approved a settlement in PECO's 1307(f) Purchased Gas Cost rate investigation which requires PECO to increase the retainage volume adjustment for natural gas transportation service customers from 2.5% to 2.8% for a period of one year commencing December 1, 2010 (R-2010-2174034…
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October 15, 2010
The Pennsylvania PUC denied, 4-1, the Office of Small Business Advocate's request for rehearing of the PUC's decision allowing Direct Energy to retain, without affirmative action by the customer, the customers it currently serves under the aggregation program at Pike County Light & Power if those…
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October 15, 2010
The Pennsylvania PUC approved settlements in the 1307(f) rate investigations of UGI Central Penn Gas (R-2010-2172922) and UGI Penn Natural Gas (R-2010-2172928) which provide for the transition to mandatory direct capacity assignments to suppliers
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October 15, 2010
PUCT Staff posted final designations of non-volunteer POLRs for the 2011-12 term, along with the designation of the POLR responsible for the Electric Facts Label.
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October 14, 2010
Young Energy LLC, which offers prepaid service without the use of a customer prepayment device or system, opposed PUCT Staff's draft proposal for publication which would eliminate the offering of prepaid service without the use of a customer prepayment device or system (Project 38675).
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October 13, 2010
Consolidated Edison, Orange and Rockland Utilities, Consolidated Edison Solutions, and Consolidated Edison Development have jointly requested a declaratory ruling from the New York Public Service Commission that 200 MW of renewable energy projects to be developed and owned by ConEdison Solutions and…
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October 11, 2010
PUCT Staff have filed a proposal for publication in Project 38675 for new Subst. R. §25.498, governing prepaid service, under which REPs would be prohibited from offering prepaid service unless the REP uses a customer prepayment device or system (CPDS).
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October 8, 2010
The City of Meadville, Pennsylvania, has approved a municipal opt-out electric aggregation program proposed by FirstEnergy Solutions, according to the Meadville Tribune .
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October 6, 2010
Detroit Edison has filed with the Michigan PSC a Power Supply Cost Recovery (PSCR) plan calling for a PSCR Factor of (2.98) mills per kWh (i.e., negative 2.98 mills per kWh) in customers' bills for the period January 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011 (U-16434).
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October 6, 2010
Central Hudson has filed with the New York PSC several gas tariff amendments to clarify the daily balancing requirement and revise the monthly balancing and semi-annual settlement provisions contained in the company's retail access program. The company is proposing that these amendments become…
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October 5, 2010
Some 79% of Michigan residents said that homeowners and businesses should be able to select their electric company, just as they choose their telecommunications and natural gas providers, according to a recent poll by Marketing Resource Group.
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