February 23, 2012
Penelec and New York PSC Staff have filed a joint proposal under which Penelec will move its New York customers to market-based default service rates effective June 1, 2012, with the rate increases mitigated in a competitively neutral manner (Case 11-E-0594).
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February 20, 2012
FirstEnergy Solutions on Friday announced a new offer available to residential electric customers at AEP Ohio, open to the first 15,000 customers who enroll by March 31, 2012.
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February 15, 2012
FirstEnergy Solutions has petitioned the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to compel AEP Ohio to comply with certain provisions of the adopted AEP Ohio electric security plan, specifically concerning the information provided to competitive retail suppliers regarding discounted capacity and GS-2…
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February 15, 2012
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has denied FirstEnergy Solutions' requested retail market enhancements at Dayton Power & Light.
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February 7, 2012
FirstEnergy Solutions has begun offering residential electric service in Maryland.
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February 2, 2012
The Michigan PSC has posted its annual report on retail electric choice, which includes the load served by each alternative supplier in 2011.
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February 1, 2012
Frontier Utilities, LLC, has been acquired by a group of independent Texas-based investors led by Quintana Infrastructure & Development LLC and Jay D. Hellums, an industry veteran.
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January 26, 2012
FirstEnergy Corp. announced this morning that its generation subsidiaries will retire six older coal-fired power plants located in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland by September 1, 2012.
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January 18, 2012
Allowing 50% of default service customers to participate in a retail opt-in auction, "may create unintended issues and challenges for the EDCs [electric distribution companies] and default service," the Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate said in comments on a tentative PUC order concerning a…
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January 11, 2012
The National Energy Marketers Association has announced National Policy Committee Chairs and its Regional Advocacy Team Leaders for 2012.
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January 4, 2012
FirstEnergy Solutions has petitioned the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to maintain then-current (as of the December 30, 2011 date of FES' motion) rates at AEP Ohio, or alternatively maintain the then-current cost of capacity, until such time as AEP Ohio has accepted the partial stipulation, as…
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December 30, 2011
FirstEnergy Solutions has signed an eight-year electricity supply agreement with the City of Lorain, Ohio which includes supplying six city facilities and sponsorship of Pipe Yard Stadium.
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December 29, 2011
FirstEnergy Solutions has petitioned FERC, in a complaint, to direct PJM to allocate incremental real-time congestion charges to all transmission customers (EL12-19).
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December 23, 2011
FirstEnergy Solutions said that its following residential pricing at several Pennsylvania distribution companies will expire December 31.
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December 21, 2011
The New York PSC approved without modification a revised auction plan for the divestiture of fossil generation owned by Rochester Gas & Electric and an affiliate (10/24) . As previously reported, the revised auction plan separates the original bundle of assets to remove less attractive assets, in…
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December 1, 2011
FirstEnergy Solutions has signed a long-term agreement to purchase the output from the Maryland Solar Farm, which is to be constructed in Hagerstown, Md.
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November 30, 2011
ERCOT has filed in PUCT Docket 39916 its report on the monthly coincident peak loads on the ERCOT system for the months of June, July, August and September 2011 (2011 4CP). The 2011 4CP dates were June 15, July 27, August 3, and September 2, 2011.
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November 22, 2011
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved, without modification at this time, an unopposed stipulation to establish an electric security plan governing default service at Duke Energy Ohio for the period January 1, 2012 through May 31, 2015, though PUCO expressed concerned about the use of…
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November 17, 2011
Consistent with prior direction from PUCO, CRA International submitted an unredacted list of winning bidders in the FirstEnergy Ohio utilities' default service auction held in October.
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November 2, 2011
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio said that it is appropriate to explore further distinguishing the activities of consultants versus brokers, and suggested that the matter should be addressed in a future rulemaking, as the Commission denied a complaint against Palmer Energy Company filed by…
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November 2, 2011
Continuing the pace seen in the second quarter of 2011, direct retail sales by FirstEnergy Solutions in the third quarter of 2011 increased by two-thirds versus the year-ago quarter, FirstEnergy Corp. disclosed yesterday in reporting earnings.
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October 28, 2011
DPL Energy Resources is serving 85% of migrated sales at affiliate Dayton Power & Light as of the quarter ending September 30, 2011, DPL Inc. reported in a 10-Q.
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October 27, 2011
During an earnings call yesterday, Exelon CEO John Rowe continued a victory lap on recent, yet unapproved, settlements at Duke Energy Ohio and AEP Ohio that would require both utilities to begin procuring 100% of capacity for customers through the Reliability Pricing Model in 2015.
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October 25, 2011
A settlement among most parties to establish Duke Energy Ohio's procurement and pricing of the Standard Service Offer (SSO) for the period January 1, 2012 through May 31, 2015 forces certain retail suppliers to subsidize their competitors, by jettisoning an innovative proposal to remove capacity…
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October 20, 2011
Liberty Power Selected to Supply Philly Buying Power
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