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April 13, 2018
The Midcontinent ISO's capacity auction for the 2018-19 planning year resulted in a clearing price of $10 per MW-day for all zones except Zone 1 (DPC, GRE, MDU, MP, NSP, OTP, SMP)
February 2, 2018
The Michigan PSC issued its annual electric choice report for 2017, which includes, for each retail supplier, the number of customers and MW served for 2017, by service area
February 2, 2018
Michigan electric utilities filed final levels for their 2018 choice caps
January 5, 2018
Several more Michigan utilities have filed initial amounts for the 2018 electric choice caps
December 29, 2017
Several Michigan utilities have filed initial amounts for the 2018 electric choice caps
November 22, 2017
The Michigan PSC has set the amount for the state reliability mechanism (SRM) capacity charge that customers of alternative retail electric suppliers shall pay if their supplier fails to demonstrate that it has enough capacity into the future, or elects not to arrange generating capacity to meet the…
October 12, 2017
The Michigan Agency for Energy (MAE) has urged 4,500 former Energy America customers who may have signed up for service in 1998, "to check their bills to see if they are now being charged by Direct Energy Services as their natural gas supplier."
September 29, 2017
Entergy Corporation announced that it plans to operate Palisades Power Plant in Covert, Michigan, until the spring of 2022, under the existing Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Consumers Energy.
August 24, 2017
The Michigan PSC approved one of the options proposed by Consumers Energy under its Voluntary Large Customer Renewable Energy Pilot Program (VLC), which will offer large businesses the opportunity to purchase 100 percent renewable energy.
May 12, 2017
The Michigan PSC affirmed that determining how load serving entities, including retail suppliers, are able to demonstrate compliance with certain statutory capacity requirements shall be addressed in the PSC's previously adopted technical conference process, not utility rate cases nor cases…
May 12, 2017
The Michigan PSC denied a request from Consumers Energy which had sought to compel the disclosure of retail electric suppliers' confidential resource adequacy compliance showings filed with the PSC
April 14, 2017
MISO Says Still Working With Illinois On "State-Based" Approach For Long-Term Resource Adequacy
Clearing prices in the Midcontinent ISO capacity auction for the 2017-18 delivery year were $1.50/MW-day for all zones.
March 13, 2017
With FERC rejecting the Midcontinent ISO's proposal for a forward capacity auction specific to retail choice states, the Michigan PSC, consistent with recent legislation, has established a process to establish a State Reliability Mechanism (SRM), under which retail suppliers will be required to pay…
February 6, 2017
Michigan electric utilities have filed final levels for the 2017 10% choice caps.
December 30, 2016
Michigan electric utilities have filed initial levels for the 2017 10% choice caps.
December 21, 2016
The Michigan Public Service Commission opened a proceeding to seek additional information on Consumers Energy's announcement that it intends to terminate early its power purchase agreement (PPA) with Entergy Nuclear Palisades, LLC (ENP) for the purchase of electricity from the Palisades Nuclear…
November 8, 2016
The Michigan PSC adopted a settlement concerning the natural gas customer choice (GCC) program design at Consumers Energy which provides that retail suppliers shall not be subject to a capacity reservation charge at this time
October 11, 2016
Consumers Energy in Michigan touted a 36¢/Mcf decline in the default service natural gas supply rate versus last winter.
October 6, 2016
The Michigan PSC and Michigan Agency for Energy (MAE) announced that tens of thousands of people have used the CompareMIGas (https://w2.lara.state.mi.us/GasChoice/) natural gas shopping website in the year since its launch.
July 25, 2016
The Michigan PSC directed that the Michigan Agency for Energy Staff, on behalf of the Commission, shall conduct an investigation into the alleged unauthorized switching of natural gas customers by Direct Energy Services, LLC, to ensure that customers are not switched without the proper authorization…
March 9, 2016
Provision Power and Gas LLC applied for a Maryland natural gas supplier license to serve all customer classes in all service areas, as a supplier/marketer and aggregator.
February 2, 2016
The Michigan PSC has released its annual report on electric choice, which includes customer and load data for each supplier by utility service area
February 1, 2016
Michigan utilities have filed their final electric choice cap numbers for 2016, based on 10% of weather-adjusted retail sales.
October 6, 2015
The Michigan Public Service Commission has launched its natural gas price comparison website Michigan.gov/CompareMIGas
August 26, 2015
Nordic Energy Services has provided details on its recent expansion and future market entries.
