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 13, 2010
A stipulation in Texas-New Mexico Power's rate case would increase the residential customer charge but not implement the significant change in rate design originally sought by TNMP which would have placed 50% of the total revenue requirement in a fixed monthly charge (38480).
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December 2, 2010
Gexa Energy topped J.D. Power and Associates 2010 Texas Business Retail Electric Provider Customer Satisfaction Study, with a score of 681 out of 1,000.
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November 29, 2010
Increasing the costs of distribution service which are recovered through a fixed customer charge, rather than a volumetric charge, at Texas-New Mexico Power will not have a material impact on the design or structure of the products that REPs offer customers, TNMP contended in rebuttal testimony in…
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November 18, 2010
Updated November 19 with Additional Details on REP Interaction (starting 7th paragraph)
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November 18, 2010
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November 16, 2010
MXenergy Seeking Illinois Electric License MXenergy has submitted an application for an Illinois alternative retail electric supplier license. A copy of MXenergy's application was not immediately available.
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November 9, 2010
TXU Energy and the Office of Public Utility Counsel separately opposed Texas-New Mexico Power's proposal to cover 50% of the revenue requirement for residential and Secondary < 5 kW customers through a fixed customer charge (38480).
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November 5, 2010
SouthStar Energy Services Seeks Md. Gas Supply License SouthStar Energy Services, LLC filed an application for a Maryland natural gas supplier license. A copy of SouthStar's application was not available. According to the maillog summary, SouthStar applied to do business as Maryland Energy.
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November 5, 2010
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October 29, 2010
TXU Energy's residential customer churn accelerated further in the quarter ending September 30, 2010, as TXU lost 30,000 residential customers (net) versus June 30, 2010.
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October 11, 2010
Viridian Seeks to Expand Pa. Electric License
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October 7, 2010
As exclusively noted by Matters yesterday , Brighten Energy LLC, an affiliate of TXU Energy, has applied for a Pennsylvania electric generation supplier license.
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October 6, 2010
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October 5, 2010
Several stakeholders urged the PUCT not to adjust the design of the ERCOT System Administration Fee (SAF) ahead of potential action by the legislature in the 2011 session in response to the Sunset Commission report, while TXU Energy said that the current mechanism for charging the fee appropriately…
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October 4, 2010
CenterPoint Energy does not believe that the disconnect and reconnect discretionary charges for customers with provisioned advanced meters should be reduced to zero prior to the reduction of other discretionary charges, as suggested by PUCT Staff and some REPs, but has alternatively suggested that…
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