January 17, 2018
Bill Filed To Allow All Virginia IOU Customers To Take Service From Competitive Electric Provider For 100% Renewable Energy, Regardless Of Utility Offerings
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January 17, 2018
Including Large C&I Customers In Municipal Aggregations On Opt-Out Basis Pushed In New York
A Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) Subgroup tasked with examining barriers to municipal aggregation, particularly with respect to the use of CCAs in meeting various clean energy goals, has filed a report with the New York PSC on the working group process that summarizes various recommendations…
January 12, 2018
Texas PUC's Marquez: Treatment Of Energy Related To TDU-Owned Electric Storage As Unaccounted-For Energy (UFE) "Problematic"
After hearing oral arguments concerning an application by AEP Texas to install two battery storage facilities on its distribution grid, Commissioner Brandy Marty Marquez said during a Texas PUC open meeting yesterday that AEP Texas's proposed treatment of the energy involved in the battery…
January 12, 2018
Lubbock City Council, Utility Board Pass Resolutions Stating Intent To Offer Retail Electric Customer Choice at Municipal Utility LP&L
The Lubbock, Texas City Council passed a resolution which expresses an "intent" to provide retail electric customer choice to the 470 MW of load at Lubbock Power & Light which the utility is seeking to have transitioned to ERCOT from SPP.
January 3, 2018
Texas Retail Providers Propose TDUs Assume "Financial Responsibility" For Critical Care Customers For Whom TDU Repeatedly Denies Valid Disconnect For Non-pay Requests
In comments on a period review of the electric substantive rules applicable to the Texas retail market, the Retail Electric Provider Coalition said that to the extent TDUs repeatedly refuse to perform valid disconnect requests for critical care customers, then the TDU should be required to assume…
January 3, 2018
Lubbock Mayor States Intent For Lubbock Power & Light To Implement Retail Choice As Part Of Joining ERCOT
LP&L, Texas' 3rd Largest Municipal Utility, Supports Move To Retail Electric Choice
In testimony filed with the Public Utility Commission of Texas concerning Lubbock Power & Light's sought transition from the Southwest Power Pool to ERCOT, Daniel Pope, Mayor of the City of Lubbock, stated an, "intent to pursue retail customer choice for City of Lubbock ('Lubbock') electric…
December 29, 2017
Several Michigan Utilities File Initial Levels For 2018 Electric Choice Caps
Several Michigan utilities have filed initial amounts for the 2018 electric choice caps
December 22, 2017
Citing Precedent At PPL, Low-Income Advocates Seek Limitation On Electric Choice For Low-Income Customers At FirstEnergy Pa. EDCs
The Coalition for Affordable Utility Service and Energy Efficiency in Pennsylvania (CAUSE-PA) said that they will seek a limitation on the ability of customer assistance program (CAP) customers to take competitive electric supply at the FirstEnergy Pennsylvania utilities, as part of the PUC's review…
December 19, 2017
New York ALJs Deny NEM Motion To Subpoena Office of General Services
The presiding ALJs in the New York PSC's evidentiary proceeding reviewing the retail energy mass markets have denied a request from the National Energy Marketers Association to subpoena the Office of General Services (OGS)
December 18, 2017
Allowing Municipal Aggregations To Obtain, Under Data Security Agreement, Aggregated Customer Data Which Fails Privacy Screen Under Consideration In New York As Further Comments Sought
The New York PSC has issued a request from stakeholders for further input regarding the appropriate balance between the benefit of making more utility customer aggregated usage data available and the need to maintain consumer privacy.
December 18, 2017
New Jersey Nuclear Subsidy Bill Would Place Obligation On Utilities For All Customers, Not Retail Suppliers
Text of a newly filed bill (S3560) in New Jersey to provide certain subsidies to nuclear generation would place the obligation to procure nuclear diversity certificates (NDCs -- the mechanism for the subsidy) on, "electric public utilities," for their distribution customers, and would not impose an…
December 15, 2017
New York Sets Fees For Municipal Aggregations' Receipt Of Customer Info, Lists
The New York PSC has established fees for access to aggregated community load data, as well as the customer information needed for opt-out mailings, for municipal aggregation (community choice aggregation or CCA) programs.
December 14, 2017
New York PSC Grants Waiver To Another ESCO Allowing It To Serve Low-Income Customers
The New York PSC at its session today granted a waiver to Utility Expense Reduction, LLC allowing the company to serve assistance program participant (APP) customers with a product that guarantees savings versus default service
December 13, 2017
NEM Asks ALJs To Subpoena NYS Office of General Services Regarding Retail Market Testimony
The National Energy Marketers Association (NEM) has requested that the presiding ALJs in the New York PSC's evidentiary proceeding reviewing the retail energy mass market issue a subpoena to the New York State Office of General Services (OGS) to produce responses to prior requests for admissions…
December 13, 2017
As New York Retail Mass Market Evidentiary Hearings Close, ESCOs Again Seek Agreement On Certain Issues, Suggest Joint Proposal
At the conclusion of the evidentiary hearings in the New York PSC's review of the retail energy mass market, ESCOs again sought to reach consensus among the parties on certain issues
December 12, 2017
Utility NV Energy Says Implementing Electric Choice In Nevada Would Cost $5-7 Billion
An "initial" estimate of "some" of the costs of implementing a proposed Constitutional Amendment to institute electric choice in Nevada range from $5 billion to $7 billion, NV Energy said in comments to the Nevada PUC
December 11, 2017
Draft Calif. PUC Resolution Would Require Municipal Aggregations To File Statement Of Intent To Serve Load One-Year Before Service, In Order To Include As Part Of RA Allocation Process
A draft California PUC resolution would alter the timeline for implementation of community choice aggregations (CCAs) such that CCAs would be required to file a statement of intent to serve load at least one year before such service starts, so that the CCA's load can be included in resource adequacy…
December 11, 2017
OCA: 120-Day Window For Retail Suppliers To Drop CAP Customers To Default Service Is Too Long
In comments on a tentative order from the Pennsylvania PUC which sought to clarify when retail electric suppliers must drop Customer Assistance Program (CAP) customers at PPL Electric to default service, now that CAP customers may only shop through a CAP-specific standard offer program, the…
December 8, 2017
Texas PUC Staff File Draft Proposal For Publication Which Includes Proposed Requirement That REPs Offer Ability To Pay Deposits >$50 In Two Installments To All Small Volume Customers
Staff has filed a revised draft proposal for publication concerning changes to various customer protections extended to Lite-Up customers under the current rules due to the elimination of the SBF
December 7, 2017
Illinois Commerce Commission Creates Retail Market Advisory Committee
The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) on Wednesday unanimously adopted a resolution authorizing the creation of a Retail Market Advisory Committee which the ICC said is designed, "to advance efforts to foster a healthy retail marketplace in Illinois."
December 6, 2017
NY State Office of General Services Withdraws As Party To PSC Retail Market Evidentiary Review
The New York State Office of General Services (OGS) provided notice of its withdrawal as a party from the New York PSC's evidentiary proceedings reviewing the retail energy mass markets. As it is no longer a party, OGS said that it cannot provide testimony in the proceedings under the PSC's…
December 4, 2017
NY ESCO Seeking To Offer 100% Renewable, Guaranteed Savings Product To Low-Income Customers
Utility Expense Reduction, LLC has filed a letter with the New York PSC further clarifying its sought waiver of the PSC's prohibition on ESCO service to assistance program participant customers, and the product UER proposed to offer under the waiver
December 1, 2017
DPU Largely Strikes Grid Modernization Investment From Eversource (Nstar) Rate Case
Storage, EV Investments Permitted
The Massachusetts DPU, in an order on a rate case for Eversource (Nstar and WMECO) largely struck from consideration in the rate case proposed investments by the utilities in a host of grid modernization initiatives, with the exception of the energy storage and electric vehicle proposals
December 1, 2017
Regulator Approves Increase Which Nearly Quintuples Cost of Retail Supplier Referral Program
Rejects Changes To Supplier Coordination Tariff, Including Proposed Customer "Do Not Market" List
The Massachusetts DPU, in an order on an Eversource (Nstar, WMECO) rate case, has approved a significant increase in the charge for suppliers to participate in the retail supply customer referral program, but rejected (for now) a host of changes to the supplier terms and conditions (supplier tariff)
December 1, 2017
RESA Witness: NY PSC Staff's ESCO Vs. Default Service Comparison "Flawed"
"That's All That Staff's Got" In Push To End Choice, Witness Says
A "flawed" comparison of ex post revenues from default service customers versus ESCO customers, submitted by Staff of the New York Department of Public Service, is, "all that Staff's got," in Staff's push to largely end retail choice in the mass market (except for a limited set of products or…