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.
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January 19, 2012
Northeast Utilities shall not consummate its proposed merger with Nstar unless and until the Connecticut PURA has issued a final decision approving the merger, PURA ordered yesterday.
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January 19, 2012
The Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate has posted residential natural gas migration data as of January 1, 2012.
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January 5, 2012
EnerNOC, Inc., Maryland PSC Staff, the Office of People's Counsel, and three affected utilities have filed a settlement regarding EnerNOC's failure to attain demand response in the amount required under the Gap RFP contracts (Case 9149).
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December 6, 2011
Horizon Power and Light reported its customer count in filing a response at the District of Columbia PSC to concerns raised by the Office of People's Counsel.
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November 22, 2011
The District of Columbia Office of People's Counsel asked the District of Columbia PSC to require that Horizon Power & Light give 30 days' notice to the PSC before Horizon resumes sales calls in the District.
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November 18, 2011
The Maryland PSC has gone live with its website listing available residential electric offers in the market.
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November 4, 2011
D.C. to Close Investigation of Portfolio Management for SOS
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October 20, 2011
The District of Columbia Office of People's Counsel has requested that the D.C. PSC investigate a series of claims against Horizon Power and Light made by customers to OPC.
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October 5, 2011
Former People's Counsel Nominated to D.C. PSC
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September 26, 2011
The Maryland PSC should, "ensure that as much retail load as possible it covered by fixed-price forward contract obligations signed far in advance of delivery (at least two years)," to mitigate market power impacts from the Constellation-Exelon merger, the Maryland Energy Administration said in…
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September 19, 2011
Maryland PSC Staff requested that the PSC issue a show cause order to the four curtailment service providers selected under the "Gap RFP," as well as the utility counterparties, to ensure that double counting is not occurring and to, "address why all the Gap RFP Agreements should not be voided."
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September 13, 2011
The District of Columbia PSC has again rejected a series of changes to Washington Gas Light Rate Schedule No. 3 (Interruptible Sales Service), Rate Schedule No. 3A (Interruptible Delivery Service) and Rate Schedule No. 6 (Small Commercial Aggregation Pilot), finding that certain provisions remain…
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August 17, 2011
Mass Marketer GDF Suez Retail Energy Solutions Receives Maryland License
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July 21, 2011
In a protest at FERC (EC11-83), the Maryland Office of People's Counsel and Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate called the proposed mitigation offered by Exelon and Constellation Energy as part of their merger application inadequate, while also calling the analysis of retail market issues…
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June 27, 2011
"Under no circumstance," should competitive supplier early termination fees be included in purchased electric or gas receivables, the Maryland Office of People's Counsel said in comments to the PSC.
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June 9, 2011
The Maryland PSC denied Washington Gas Light's application for a permanent gas supply hedging program, but did authorize hedging through the 2011-12 winter (Case 9224).
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June 7, 2011
Pepco is not opposed to the introduction of Purchase of Receivables in the District of Columbia, but urged the PSC to carefully weigh costs and benefits of POR (FC 1085).
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May 12, 2011
An unopposed non-unanimous stipulation in Oncor's rate case would implement its proposal to modify how demand charges are applied to customers of REPs in the Secondary Service Greater than 10 kW class (38929, see 1/10 ).
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April 26, 2011
Changing the treatment of uncollectibles at Columbia Gas of Maryland from a Purchase of Receivables program to the proration of partial payments appears to be the best option for addressing choice implementation costs at Columbia, the Office of People's Counsel said in comments.
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April 18, 2011
The Pennsylvania PUC ordered that costs of PECO's optional dynamic pricing plan shall only be recovered from default service customers through the Generation Supply Adjustment (M-2009-2123944).
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March 22, 2011
Maryland utilities are using different approaches for the treatment of bypassable reconciliation factors in calculating weighted average SOS prices disclosed to customers, the Office of People's Counsel said in supplemental comments to the PSC.
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March 18, 2011
A proposed Maryland order which would completely eliminate the bypassable Standard Offer Service administrative charge at Pepco and Delmarva is "contrary to law" and "not supported by the record evidence," Maryland PSC Staff said in a memorandum on appeal to the Commission (Case 9226 & 9232).
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March 8, 2011
Parties Appeal Proposed Order Which Would Eliminate Bypassable SOS Admin. Charge at Pepco, Delmarva
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March 8, 2011
Allegheny Power in Maryland is currently including two weighted average prices of SOS service on its residential bills, but has not yet included recently accepted actual SOS rates through May 31, 2012, according to materials submitted by Allegheny in response to a petition from the Office of…
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