December 28, 2010
A New York PSC records access officer denied Hess Corporation's request for continued confidential treatment of a standard variable rate contract submitted as part of compliance with the Uniform Business Practices, and granted a Freedom of Information Law Request (FOIL) from Halifax-American Energy…
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December 22, 2010
ICC Opens Rulemaking on ABC Licensing, Rules The Illinois Commerce Commission has opened Docket 10-0733 to address in a rulemaking amendments to 83 Ill. Adm. Code 454, relating to electric agent, broker, and consultant licensing. No documents are yet associated with the docket. However, legislation…
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December 17, 2010
FERC Approves FirstEnergy-Allegheny Merger In an unsurprising decision given its merger review history, FERC approved the merger of FirstEnergy Corp. and Allegheny Energy without any conditions relating to mitigation of market power. In doing so, FERC rejected protests from the Pennsylvania Office…
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December 16, 2010
As first reported in our live blog yesterday, the Illinois Commerce Commission has approved tariffs to institute utility consolidated billing and Purchase of Receivables at Commonwealth Edison.
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December 14, 2010
United Illuminating is seeking to move the recovery of the Generation Service Charge (GSC) Administrative Adder from the bypassable Generation Service Charge rate component to the Non-Bypassable Federally Mandated Congestion Charge (NBFMCC) rate component (10-08-01).
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December 3, 2010
ConEdison Solutions entered the PECO residential market by offering a fixed-rate product with no termination fee, and an affinity program which includes donations to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
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December 3, 2010
Illinois Commerce Commission Acting Chairman Manuel Flores pressed intervenors yesterday during oral arguments regarding Commonwealth Edison's Purchase of Receivables tariff regarding what form of cost recovery would lead to more robust residential choice.
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November 24, 2010
Opt-out municipal aggregation programs, regardless of whether they are run by home rule municipalities, "operate in contravention to 66 Pa. C.S. § 2807(d)(1) and 52 Pa. Code § 57.173, thereby making them impermissible," the Pennsylvania PUC Office of Trial Staff said in supporting petitions for a…
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November 17, 2010
Direct Energy will be using a full array of marketing and advertising channels to support its new PECO residential electric offers, Cory Byzewski, Vice President and General Manager, US North, for Direct Energy Residential, told Matters yesterday.
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November 15, 2010
Commonwealth Edison's most recent calculation of a combined uncollectibles factor to be used in the Purchase of Receivables discount rate for all customer classes appears to have been calculated, "in a manner that is not consistent with the calculation used by Ameren Illinois in Docket Nos.…
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November 10, 2010
FirstEnergy Solutions Not Signing Opt-Out Aggregation Agreements Until PUC Matter Resolved FirstEnergy Solutions confirmed this morning that it is not signing any opt-out municipal aggregation contracts with Pennsylvania home rule municipalities until the PUC resolves the legal questions of such…
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November 8, 2010
Oasis Energy Seeking Pennsylvania Gas License Oasis Power LLC, d/b/a Oasis Energy, applied for a Pennsylvania natural gas supplier license to serve all customer classes, including residential customers, at UGI Utilities.
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November 8, 2010
Dominion Retail, Stream Energy, and Verde Energy USA Inc. have announced pricing for residential electric supply at PECO.
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November 4, 2010
Dominion Retail has filed a petition for a declaratory order from the Pennsylvania PUC finding that implementation of opt-out municipal aggregation programs, for home rule municipalities or otherwise, is illegal in the absence of an act of the General Assembly authorizing such activity…
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November 2, 2010
Illinois Commerce Commission Staff said that they have no objection to using the system average uncollectible factor found in Commonwealth Edison Rider UF if the Commission elects to impose a single discount rate on all customer classes under ComEd's Purchase of Receivables program.
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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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November 1, 2010
Dominion Retail reported EBIT of $14 million for the third quarter of 2010, versus $19 million a year ago.
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October 22, 2010
FERC approved Duke Energy Ohio and Duke Energy Kentucky's plan to exit the Midwest ISO and join PJM and conditionally accepted the Duke companies' proposed Fixed Resource Requirement (FRR) Integration Plan (ER10-2254 et. al.).
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October 18, 2010
The Massachusetts Attorney General asked the Massachusetts DPU to require competitive suppliers and the electric distribution companies to submit witness testimony and exhibits, with discovery and cross examination on such evidence, to support their respective positions regarding Purchase of…
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October 18, 2010
The Retail Energy Supply Association has asked the Pennsylvania PUC to adopt interim guidelines, to be followed by a subsequent rulemaking, to develop standards governing the use, by a competitive supplier, of a non-affiliated distribution company's name and/or logo. The request came in the…
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October 18, 2010
Champion Energy Services and the Energy Cooperative Association of Pennsylvania are among the suppliers which have announced pricing for their entry into the PECO residential electric market.
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October 13, 2010
FirstEnergy Solutions has signed a contract to supply electricity to the Pittsburgh Steelers at Heinz Field for a five-year term beginning April 2011, and is offering residential electric supply under what it labeled as "Steelers Offers" to customers in three western Pennsylvania territories.
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October 11, 2010
An Illinois ALJ has recommended that Commonwealth Edison's Purchase of Receivables discount rate be established solely as a fixed percentage discount off of a supplier's receivables, with no flat per-bill charge as proposed by ComEd (Docket 10-0138).
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September 30, 2010
The Ohio Consumers' Counsel, Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council, Border Energy, Inc, Stand Energy Corporation, and Delta Energy, LLC petitioned the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to require Interstate Gas Supply to, "immediately cease and desist from using the trade name 'Columbia Retail…
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September 28, 2010
PPL Electric Utilities has filed at the Pennsylvania PUC a modified Time of Use generation rate program to cover the period January 1, 2011 through May 31, 2013.
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