HomeNews By CategoryVPP, DER, and Smart Grid
Narrow these results by state, topic, company or docket — filters stack, and every story shown carries all of them.
May 15, 2012
The Maryland Office of People's Counsel has opposed a proposal to include reconciliations of revenues from the PJM market and the costs of credits paid to customers under critical peak rebates in the nonbypassable EmPOWER MD charge, further clouding cost recovery issues relating to the critical peak…
May 9, 2012
Allowing Pennsylvania utilities to forego installation of smart meters would, "stifle innovative products and services from the emerging competitive marketplace," the Retail Energy Supply Association said in testimony to lawmakers on House Bill 2188 yesterday.
March 19, 2012
Baltimore Gas & Electric and Pepco-Maryland will make their critical peak rebate programs available to all distribution customers within eligible customer classes, not only Standard Offer Service customers, under a consensus program design contained in a Maryland dynamic pricing working group report…
February 27, 2012
Georgia Power has opposed a bill before the Georgia legislature which it said amounts to deregulation.
February 24, 2012
Texas Customers Formally Petition for Advanced Meter Opt-Out Rulemaking
February 14, 2012
Non-utility stakeholders have not expressed interest in submitting a proposal for Maryland's electric vehicle pilot program, a final working group report said.
February 13, 2012
The Public Utility Commission of Texas will review the issue of providing customers with an "opt-out" from advanced metering.
February 7, 2012
AEP Texas Central Company and AEP Texas North Company have reached agreements to expand the amount of load in their 2012 commercial load management programs, in light of resource adequacy concerns.
January 26, 2012
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric informed the PUCT yesterday that it had reached agreement with several parties to expand its load management program, which pays enrolled customers for curtailments during called events at peak times.
January 23, 2012
Oncor Electric Delivery petitioned the Public Utility Commission of Texas for a good cause exception order to allow it to procure another 50 MW of curtailable load for the summer of 2012 (Docket 40123).
January 12, 2012
Simple Energy, a company which offers rewards to customers for reducing electricity usage, is offering its online program to customers at Oncor and CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric with provisioned advanced meters.
January 11, 2012
ERCOT is considering a Distributed Load Aggregation program, which would allow smaller customers to provide demand response during emergencies, it said in a resource adequacy status report to the PUCT.
November 16, 2011
Constellation Energy and Marriott International, Inc. announced this morning an agreement to develop over 23 megawatts of load response capability across more than 250 Marriott-managed hotel properties in the mid-Atlantic, New England, New York, Texas and California.
October 19, 2011
PUCO Sets Additional Comment Period for Smart Grid Privacy, Data Rules
October 12, 2011
Reliant will use 12 homes in Houston as a laboratory to evaluate a suite of smart energy tools and services, dubbed Reliant Innovation Avenue.
October 6, 2011
ConEdison Solutions and Viridity Energy, Inc. announced yesterday an expanded partnership offering customers "energy optimization," which the companies said is a, "first-to-market automated, revenue-generating, energy management offering."
September 27, 2011
NRG Energy, Inc. said that it is partnering with the University of Delaware to commercialize new technology that will enable electric vehicle (EV) owners to sell electric storage services from the batteries of parked EVs to help stabilize the electricity grid.
August 31, 2011
Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection Commissioner Daniel Esty has formally requested that the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority suspend PURA's two dockets concerning advanced meter implementation at Connecticut Light and Power and United Illuminating, claiming that…
August 30, 2011
A draft Connecticut PURA decision would deny Connecticut Light & Power's application for full deployment of advanced meters, concluding such deployment would result in net costs to customers (05-10-03RE04).
August 22, 2011
Potomac Edison, "should investigate the potential for the creation of a CSP [curtailment service provider] program administered by Potomac Edison that is similar to its programs in West Virginia and Pennsylvania," the Maryland PSC directed in an order issued Friday (9236).
August 22, 2011
Customer data should be made available, "in a timely manner to third parties who are authorized by the customer to receive it, and utilities should be compensated for their costs of providing such access," under the New York PSC's recently adopted smart grid policy statement.
July 29, 2011
The California PUC approved rules to protect the privacy and security of customer usage data generated by smart meters, and to provide customers with timely usage and pricing data (R.08-12-009).
July 11, 2011
The PUCT approved a stipulation authorizing Texas-New Mexico Power's plan for the territory-wide deployment of an advanced metering system (AMS) (Docket 38306).
June 29, 2011
EnerNOC has petitioned the Maryland PSC to amend its demand response capacity agreements with Potomac Edison, Pepco, and Delmarva Power, after failing to obtain the required capacity resources under the contracts for the 2011-12 delivery year at any of the three utilities.
June 10, 2011
Parties have filed an unopposed stipulation to approve Texas-New Mexico Power's advanced metering system (AMS) deployment plan (Docket 38306).
