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October 10, 2011
"[T]here is no basis at this time to doubt that the Commission has authority to adopt privacy rules for either ESPs [electric service providers] or CCAs [community choice aggregators]," California PUC President Michael Peevey said in a scoping ruling concerning smart grid privacy standards, though a…
October 10, 2011
A draft California PUC decision would determine that unbundled RECs may not be used to satisfy the Pub. Util. Code § 399.16(b)(1) RPS requirement, which under the recent SB 2 (1X) is the largest among three carve-outs in the RPS, starting at 50% of the total RPS requirement for the 2013 compliance…
October 7, 2011
A draft California PUC resolution (E-4420) would allow Pacific Gas & Electric to share additional customer information with community choice aggregators (CCAs) and entities investigating becoming CCAs.
October 3, 2011
Exelon Corporation announced its acquisition of Antelope Valley Solar Ranch One, a 230-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) project under development in northern Los Angeles County, Calif., from First Solar, which developed and will build, operate, and maintain the project.
September 30, 2011
The Illinois Commerce Commission has, apparently, revised the Price to Compare for residential non-space heating customers at Commonwealth Edison for the period October 2011 through May 2012. The Price to Compare page on Plug In Illinois, as well as an updated news release, now lists the ComEd Price…
September 16, 2011
FERC yesterday ordered the RTOs to engage in ongoing compliance reviews of market participants' risk management policies, further expanding the breadth of RTOs' power beyond their originally intended functions.
September 13, 2011
Constellation Energy has launched VirtuWatt 3.0, the next generation of its online energy management application for commercial users. VirtuWatt 3.0 provides users the ability to customize data views, including grid load, temperature and electricity price correlation, and day-ahead and real-time…
September 9, 2011
"Much" of the shopping at Met-Ed and Penelec has been "successfully captured" by FirstEnergy Solutions, FirstEnergy Corp. CEO Anthony Alexander told investors yesterday at a Barclays Capital conference.
September 8, 2011
Regulation, Ramping RA Obligation for California LSEs Deferred to Future Rulemaking
September 7, 2011
The New Hampshire PUC adopted a standard form environmental disclosure statement which electric suppliers and utilities will be required to provide to customers (DE 10-226).
September 2, 2011
A NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, subsidiary has entered into an agreement to sell its ownership interest in a portfolio of natural gas-fired generating assets to an affiliate of LS Power for $1.05 billion, subject to working capital and other adjustments.
August 30, 2011
The California ISO will soon be submitting a filing with FERC to remove from its current market design the ability for parties to submit virtual bids at the interties, with such activity to be prohibited as soon as early November 2011 (ER11-4384).
August 26, 2011
Xoom Energy Receives Michigan Gas License
August 24, 2011
A draft California PUC decision would conclude that the security posted by electric service providers must include all of the investor-owned utilities' (IOUs) incremental costs to serve customers involuntarily returned to the utility, and would adopt, with modifications, a formula proposed by…
August 22, 2011
PUCT Directs Enforcement Staff to Investigate Variable Rate Disclosures
August 22, 2011
FERC has opened a non-public, formal investigation regarding energy market manipulation that may have occurred in connection with certain bidding practices which artificially increased payments under the bid cost recovery mechanism in the California ISO (ER11-3856).
August 19, 2011
Printing Industries of Michigan Selects Constellation as Endorsed Supplier
August 11, 2011
Ampegy will expand to all of Spark Energy's territories by the end of the year, Todd Thoman, president of Ampegy, told Matters.
August 10, 2011
PUCT Approves Lower Discretionary Service Charges at TCC and TNC
August 10, 2011
The California PUC issued a proposed decision which would modify several aspects of the treatment of demand response under the Resource Adequacy (RA) mechanism.
August 9, 2011
PUCT Staff Seeks to Revoke REP Certificate of Elan Energy
July 29, 2011
The California PUC approved rules to protect the privacy and security of customer usage data generated by smart meters, and to provide customers with timely usage and pricing data (R.08-12-009).
July 26, 2011
FERC approved the California ISO's proposed level of its virtual award charge, which applies to scheduling coordinators engaged in convergence bidding (ER11-2128 et. al.)
July 18, 2011
Some 26,000 requests for direct access were rejected in California's Phase III of the process to implement the expanded direct access cap, according to a PUC Staff report detailing results of the Year 2 and Year 3 Notice of Intent periods (R.07-05-025.).
July 15, 2011
The California PUC approved a decision yesterday under which, except in limited circumstances, electric vehicle service providers operating in residential settings shall be served under the otherwise applicable residential rates (Docket R.09-08-009).
