May 24, 2011
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has approved updated supplier tariffs at the FirstEnergy utilities, including memorializing the companies' withdrawal of any change in the switching fee.
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May 18, 2011
The Pennsylvania PUC should abate the customer referral mailer for residential customers at Met-Ed and Penelec while moving forward with the referral program for small businesses, Direct Energy Services said in comments to the PUC.
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May 5, 2011
PUCO Directs AEP Companies to Cease Collection of POLR Charges, Certain Environmental Carrying Costs
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May 3, 2011
FirstEnergy Solutions plans to grow its non-aggregation residential and small commercial retail generation sales to 3.3 TWh annually by 2013, it will report to investors this morning at an analyst conference.
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April 13, 2011
FERC denied a complaint from EnerNOC against FirstEnergy Corp. relating to the Fixed Resource Requirement integration auctions which were part of moving the American Transmission Systems Inc. load into PJM (EL10-63).
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April 6, 2011
Penn Power has posted the results from its March procurement of fixed block energy supply to serve a portion of residential default service. The products procured were 25 MW monthly blocks of On-Peak and Off-Peak energy delivered to the Penn Power zone, within the delivery period of June 1, 2011…
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April 4, 2011
Hudson Energy officially began marketing in Canada under the Hudson brand on April 4 in Ontario. Hudson Energy, a unit of Just Energy, currently supplies over 7,500 GWh of power across its electricity markets and close to 160 million therms (or 16 million GJ) of natural gas.
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April 1, 2011
The Pennsylvania PUC will solicit comments regarding whether the provision of supplier referral letters to customers at Met-Ed and Penelec should be delayed given the current minimal number of suppliers offering residential service in the territories (P-2009-2093053 et. al.).
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March 18, 2011
The Pennsylvania PUC's written order prohibiting opt-out municipal aggregation programs developed by home rule municipalities affirms the Commission's "strong preference for individual choice," but finds that the Commission itself may approve an opt-out program under "unique circumstances."
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March 17, 2011
At this morning's public meeting, the Pennsylvania PUC held that opt-out municipal aggregation by home rule municipalities may not proceed.
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March 15, 2011
Constellation Energy Launches New Website
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February 25, 2011
The Pennsylvania PUC approved, without additional retail market-related conditions, a non-unanimous stipulation authorizing the merger of FirstEnergy Corp. and Allegheny Energy (A-2010-2176520 et. al.).
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February 17, 2011
FirstEnergy Solutions increased its share of sales in its affiliated franchised utility territories in Ohio to 81.4%, FirstEnergy Corp. disclosed in reporting fourth-quarter earnings.
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February 9, 2011
ERCOT Reverts uth Percentile to Prior Level ERCOT is reverting the "uth" percentile used to determine exposure for Point-to-Point (PTP) Obligation Bids in the Day Ahead Market (DAM) to the 90th percentile starting with the DAM run on February 9, 2011, for Operating Day February 10, 2011. As…
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February 2, 2011
The Michigan PSC has posted year-end customer counts and load served by individual alternative electric suppliers, as part of its report to lawmakers on customer choice .
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January 28, 2011
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has approved the results of the latest procurement for default service supplies under the FirstEnergy Ohio utilities' electric security plan.
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January 20, 2011
As first reported in a flash on EnergyChoiceMatters.com yesterday morning, the Maryland PSC approved the merger of FirstEnergy Corp. and Allegheny Energy without any conditions related to the competitive wholesale or retail market (Case 9233).
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January 18, 2011
FirstEnergy Solutions Revises Residential Pricing FirstEnergy Solutions has revised its residential electric pricing in several areas. FirstEnergy Solutions' new residential pricing is as follows:
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January 14, 2011
AEP Retail Energy has begun offering residential electric service in Ohio.
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January 13, 2011
IDT Energy Offering PECO Residential Service on PA Power Switch IDT Energy has started offering a residential electric rate on PA Power Switch for the PECO territory. IDT is offering a variable rate currently priced at 9.8139¢/kWh. As previously reported, IDT Energy began offering service through PA…
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January 12, 2011
AEP Ohio sought rehearing of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio's order establishing a state compensation mechanism for capacity under the AEP Ohio Fixed Resource Requirement (FRR) plan, arguing that PUCO lacks such authority, and that PUCO's order infringes upon FERC's exclusive jurisdiction…
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December 29, 2010
FirstEnergy Solutions has begun offering retail electricity to individual residential customers at West Penn Power and Met-Ed, making FirstEnergy Solutions' the second residential supplier in each area, after Palmco Power.
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December 24, 2010
Several large non-residential customers have objected to Duke Energy Ohio's proposed Market Rate Offer for accelerating the transition to full market rates versus a five-year transition envisioned by statute, while retail suppliers sought to make several additional charges bypassable.
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December 21, 2010
An initial decision from two Pennsylvania ALJs would accept without modification a non-unanimous stipulation which would approve the merger of FirstEnergy Corp. and Allegheny Energy (A-2010-2176520 et. al.).
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December 13, 2010
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has asked FERC to dismiss the application of Columbus Southern Power and Ohio Power to institute a formula rate for capacity compensation from retail suppliers, given that PUCO action has made the issue moot (FERC Docket ER11-2183).
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