January 30, 2013
The California PUC adopted a formula to determine the amount of financial security and re-entry fee requirements applicable to Electric Service Providers (ESPs), and also defined the size of customers for which security must be provided.
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January 24, 2013
NRG Energy Signs as Partner of San Francisco 49ers Stadium
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January 23, 2013
DB Energy Trading LLC will pay a $1.5 million civil penalty, and disgorge $172,000 plus interest, to resolve a FERC show cause proceeding regarding manipulation of California power markets.
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January 23, 2013
Ambit Energy announced this morning that it officially passed 1 million residential customers in December.
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January 14, 2013
A California PUC proposed decision would advance the deadline by which electric service providers must show their monthly compliance with resource adequacy obligations.
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January 14, 2013
Network marketer Independence Energy is now marketing residential natural gas supply in four states, with Diversegy brokering the supply and Infinite Energy and Vista Energy among the suppliers of the offers
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January 10, 2013
EDF Trading this morning announced that it has acquired the Midwest commercial and industrial natural gas customer portfolio of ConocoPhillips.
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January 3, 2013
Southern California Edison has petitioned the California PUC to recover costs of the 45 MW McGrath Peaker Generating Station, with such recovery applying to all "benefiting" customers, not just bundled service customers.
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December 26, 2012
A proposed decision from the California PUC would allow Southern California Edison to procure nearly 1,800 MW in local capacity requirements, with such procurement eligible for cost allocation mechanism (CAM) treatment. The draft order would also decline to make any changes in the CAM, such as those…
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December 21, 2012
Calif. Adopts Lottery to Assign Available Direct Access Load
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December 19, 2012
Melissa Lauderdale, Director of Government & Regulatory Affairs at Integrys Energy Services, has been elected president of the Retail Energy Supply Association.
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December 18, 2012
FERC has approved a settlement between its Office of Enforcement, EnerNOC, Inc., and Celerity Energy Partners San Diego LLC under which EnerNOC and Celerity agree to pay a civil penalty of $820,000 and disgorge $656,000, plus interest, to resolve Enforcement's investigations into whether EnerNOC…
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December 17, 2012
New York has lost its position as the second-highest ranked state for a competitive residential retail electric market under the latest Annual Baseline Assessment of Choice in Canada and the United States (ABACCUS), providing a cautionary vision of markets which flirt with, but ultimately fail to…
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December 14, 2012
Glacial Energy has started offering residential natural gas supply in California.
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December 11, 2012
A California PUC agenda (draft) decision would adopt joint parties' recommendations for institution of a lottery process to assign any unsubscribed direct access load, and to require annual reporting of direct access migration and the lottery process.
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December 5, 2012
Several direct access (DA) parties in California have petitioned the California PUC for a rulemaking relating to nonbypassable charges and utility generation and procurement cost allocation issues in light of certain directives contained in SB 790.
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November 27, 2012
Two interrelated draft decisions recently issued by the California PUC would grant retail natural gas suppliers at Pacific Gas & Electric a modicum of relief regarding the cost of capacity assigned by Pacific Gas & Electric, but would deny marketers' request for an opt-out of certain capacity…
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November 27, 2012
Network marketer Independence Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Plus Holdings LLC (an NRG Energy, Inc. company) has announced its initial natural gas markets.
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November 21, 2012
The California PUC has posted a proposed decision which would adopt rules governing the treatment of Community Choice Aggregators (CCAs) by electrical corporations (utilities), and establishing an expedited complaint procedure for use by Community Choice Aggregators (R. 12-02-009).
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November 21, 2012
A proposed California PUC decision would adopt a formula to determine the amount of financial security and re-entry fee requirements applicable to Electric Service Providers (ESPs), and would also define the size of customers for which security must be provided (R. 07-05-025).
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November 19, 2012
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved a settlement between its Office of Enforcement and Gila River Power LLC for what FERC said was, "Gila River's manipulation of power markets in California."
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November 15, 2012
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission suspended the market-based rate authority of J.P. Morgan Ventures Energy Corporation for a period of six months, to become effective on April 1, 2013, for what FERC found to be, "repeated submission of false and misleading statements" to the California ISO…
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November 12, 2012
A draft California PUC decision would adopt 2013 Power Charges for the Department of Water Resources (DWR), and would also set the 2013 DWR Bond Charge.
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November 6, 2012
NRG Energy, through its eVgo subsidiary, is moving forward with its deployment of an electric vehicle (EV) charging network in California after FERC approved a settlement under which NRG Energy will deploy the network.
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November 2, 2012
Exelon has cut its outlook for retail supply volumes and margins from an earlier forecast in response to, "aggressive competition and pricing," Exelon CEO Chris Crane said during an earnings call yesterday.
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