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January 27, 2012
Just Energy Group Inc. announced that its common shares have been approved for listing and trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) commencing on January 30, 2012 under the trading ticker symbol "JE". The company's common shares will continue to be listed for trading in Canada on the Toronto…
January 24, 2012
Constellation Energy today announced an agreement with PureSense Environmental, Inc. to provide automated load response programs to customers of PureSense Environmental's energy response program, PureSenseESP.
January 18, 2012
A California PUC comment (draft) resolution would direct Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric to negotiate to enter into a contract with Calpine's Sutter Energy Center to end no later than December 31, 2012, and would adopt a nonbypassable charge to pay…
January 17, 2012
The amount of new direct access load available under Phase IV of the limited re-opening of direct access in California has already been fully subscribed, several suppliers told Matters after January 13, the first day that suppliers and customers were permitted to file six-month notices to take…
January 13, 2012
The California PUC has directed the investor owned utilities to better account for expected direct access load in their bundled procurement plans.
January 3, 2012
Pacific Gas & Electric has filed an application with the California PUC to modify the fees charged for various services provided to electric service providers and community choice aggregators, which includes an increase in certain consolidated billing fees.
December 30, 2011
A California PUC comment (draft) resolution would adopt Pacific Gas & Electric's proposed New Customer Protection Rules applicable to Core Transport Agents (CTAs) with two modifications, relating to the effective date, and to the treatment of recently merged companies in measuring compliance.
December 16, 2011
The California PUC yesterday adopted a final decision to implement the new RPS portfolio content categories established in SB 2 (1X).
December 14, 2011
A revised California PUC agenda decision would add greater detail regarding rules for reselling RPS-eligible contracts in order to maintain the contract's original classification into one of three statutory RPS categories, but would not provide two major revisions sought by retail suppliers (R.…
December 9, 2011
Usource Enters New Marketing Partnerships
December 2, 2011
The California PUC adopted as final new rules governing security requirements applicable to electric service providers, and adjustments to the Market Price Benchmark (MPB) used to determine the nonbypassable indifference charges assigned to customers leaving bundled utility service (Rulemaking 07-05…
November 28, 2011
FERC accepted but suspended the California ISO's tariffs to eliminate convergence bidding at intertie locations, finding that the proposal may be unjust, unreasonable, unduly discriminatory, or preferential, and ordered a technical conference (ER11-4580).
November 22, 2011
A fourth revision to a California PUC proposed decision regarding electric service provider security requirements would exclude certain small commercial accounts from triggering heightened security requirements for electric service providers, while also deferring to a subsequent proceeding the…
November 21, 2011
NRG Energy, Inc. announced this morning that it has acquired San Francisco-based Solar Power Partners, a developer of commercial and industrial distributed solar projects.
November 17, 2011
BlueStar Energy Solutions announced this morning that it has acquired TruBrite Energy Management.
November 16, 2011
Constellation Energy and Marriott International, Inc. announced this morning an agreement to develop over 23 megawatts of load response capability across more than 250 Marriott-managed hotel properties in the mid-Atlantic, New England, New York, Texas and California.
November 16, 2011
A draft California PUC decision (A. 11-06-004) would require Pacific Gas and Electric to file a petition for modification of the decision establishing its Power Charge Indifference Amount (PCIA) for 2012 within 60 days of the issuance of a decision in R.07-05-025, where changes to the methodology…
November 14, 2011
The California PUC approved a final resolution allowing community choice aggregators (CCAs), and communities studying CCA implementation, to receive additional customer information from Pacific Gas & Electric (1/7) .
November 1, 2011
Hearing Date Pushed Back for Consideration of Use of AEP Trade Name by Mass Market REP
October 26, 2011
Ambit Energy has begun offering residential and commercial electric service at Duquesne Light.
October 21, 2011
The California PUC opened Rulemaking 11-10-023 to establish local resource adequacy (RA) procurement obligations, and make other refinements to the RA program, for the 2013 compliance year.
October 20, 2011
Stanford University has requested that the California PUC modify Decision 03-04-030 to clarify that loads that were served by customer generation prior to February 1, 2001 and that subsequently switch to direct access (DA) service are only obligated to pay DA cost responsibility surcharges (CRS)…
October 20, 2011
A California PUC agenda (draft) decision concerning electric service provider (ESP) security requirements would remove certain costs, for non-mass market customers, originally proposed to be included in the security requirements (R. 07-05-025).
October 14, 2011
updated 1:35 p.m. with statement from Chairman Powelson
October 12, 2011
Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. has expressed interest in acquiring Western Wind, a renewable energy developer with assets in California and Arizona, though the two companies now dispute whether Algonquin has made a formal offer.
