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October 1, 2015
The success seen by Direct Energy during two critical peak events called during this summer in Texas under its behavioral demand response program "overwhelmed" the company, Liz Maberry, Senior Director of Innovation at Direct Energy, told attendees at the Gulf Coast Power Association fall conference…
September 22, 2015
The New Hampshire Office of Energy and Planning has urged the PUC to consider time-of-use pricing as part of the PUC's newly opened grid modernization proceeding.
September 21, 2015
Staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio have recommended that the FirstEnergy Ohio utilities file a business case that seeks to expand the utilities' existing smart grid program
September 4, 2015
New York PSC Staff will convene on September 9, 2015 a collaborative meeting with interested parties to investigate and evaluate low-income customer participation in community distributed generation, including removing potential barriers to their participation and devising possible demonstration…
September 4, 2015
The Pennsylvania PUC approved a deployment plan for PPL Electric to deploy smart meters fully compliant with the requirements of Act 129
September 3, 2015
The Maryland PSC opened Public Conference 40 (PC 40) to investigate the technical and financial barriers to the deployment of small distributed energy resources in the state, and scheduled an initial technical conference for October 20, 2015.
August 21, 2015
ERCOT has posted a draft concept paper on distributed energy resources (DERs) in the ERCOT region intended to serve as a catalyst for development of new Protocols and other market rules affecting DERs in the ERCOT region and ERCOT wholesale markets, centered around two primary goals: (1)·Collection…
August 17, 2015
During Friday's open meeting, Texas Public Utility Commissioner Kenneth Anderson noted that during the recent heat in Texas, the ERCOT market has seen a significant and repeated reduction of load once certain prices are hit (non-emergency curtailments).
August 12, 2015
Constellation announced an agreement to develop 40 megawatts (MW) of Bloom Energy fuel cell projects for commercial and public sector customers in California, Connecticut, New Jersey and New York.
August 11, 2015
Duquesne Light sought Pennsylvania PUC approval for a delay in implementation of certain features of its smart meter deployment plan, specifically the ability to offer Time of Use and real-time pricing billing
August 10, 2015
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have sought guidance from the Commission whether the current 10 MW cap used to define distributed generation should be increased or eliminated from the rules governing distributed generation.
August 5, 2015
The New York PSC announced that the following Reforming the Energy Vision demonstration projects have been determined to meet the REV principles and will move forward with implementation plans. All descriptions of the plans are directly quoted from a PSC press release
August 5, 2015
As part of its proposed Reforming the Energy Vision demonstration projects in New York, Niagara Mohawk (National Grid) has proposed to bundle distributed energy resource (DER) services and products on customers' energy bills, while offering customers a flat bill per month, for customers residing in…
July 21, 2015
ERCOT is "amenable" to taking on certain data warehouse and management functions of Smart Meter Texas, but said that it should not be charged with any customer-facing aspects of SMT, such as the customer portal, ERCOT said in comments to the Public Utility Commission of Texas
July 16, 2015
A draft report on the market design for New York Reforming the Energy Vision does not envision that utilities will procure energy from distributed resources for resale to default service customers.
July 8, 2015
Several Texas TDUs have filed updated reports regarding customers electing to take non-standard metering service, and opting out of AMS.
July 7, 2015
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas invited stakeholders to populate a matrix with stakeholders' positions on the ownership, operation, and funding of the Smart Meter Texas web portal and data warehouse
July 1, 2015
Millions of dollars are still available for Texas retail electric providers to be reimbursed for providing no-cost programmable communicating thermostats and in-home displays to eligible low-income customers.
June 30, 2015
Texas-New Mexico Power has filed with the Public Utility Commission of Texas its six-month report regarding the program under which REPs provide free programmable communicating thermostats and in-home displays (collectively, in-home devices) to low-income customers, with costs, up to a cap…
June 24, 2015
The ERCOT Retail Market Subcommittee and Wholesale Market Subcommittee are jointly conducting a workshop for exploring potential improvements in third party access to customers’ Smart Meter Texas data and in-home devices.
June 15, 2015
Update: 9:52. TNMP sent a new market notice this morning stating that it has reached the 90% reimbursement threshold
June 15, 2015
Xoom Energy has launched a demand response program for Texas customers called Usage Optimizer, and is offering a free smart thermostat plus a $40 bonus for enrolling in the program.
June 8, 2015
As part of a new proceeding regarding energy storage (D.P.U. 15-ESC-12), the Massachusetts DPU has sought comment on utility ownership of energy storage Specifically, the DPU asked:
May 26, 2015
NRG Energy has been selected by Central Hudson Gas & Electric for a microgrid demonstration project under Central Hudson's proposed Reforming the Energy Visions demonstration projects.
May 26, 2015
The Texas Coalition for Affordable Power has partnered with Gexa Energy to design and implement several demand response programs for TCAP aggregation members.
