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November 24, 2010
Dynegy shareholders rejected a $605 million bid from The Blackstone Group to acquire the independent power producer, which also stops NRG Energy's planned acquisition, at least as originally envisioned, of what would have been several of the newly acquired plants from Blackstone.
November 23, 2010
Calif. PUC Adds Nonbypassable Charge Issues to Phase III of Direct Access Proceeding The California PUC has added issues relating to nonbypassable charges for departing load, referred to as the "power charge indifference amount" (PCIA), to Phase III of the direct access re-opening proceeding…
November 16, 2010
WGL Holdings, Inc. has executed a $50 million solar system investment agreement with California-based residential solar system installer, American Solar Direct Inc. (ASDI). Along with the agreement, WGL Holdings has also made a $5 million equity investment in ASDI's parent company, American Solar…
November 16, 2010
The California PUC has issued a proposed decision (Rulemaking 10-05-006) which would adopt upfront standards for investor owned utilities (IOUs) Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E), and Southern California Edison (SCE) to participate in convergence…
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.
November 16, 2010
The California PUC has issued a proposed decision which would adopt a core brokerage fee $0.025 per decatherm at Pacific Gas & Electric, effective January 1, 2011 through June 30, 2013 (A. 09-05-026).
November 10, 2010
Sempra Energy's commodity operations recorded a loss of $134 million in the third quarter of 2010, compared with earnings of $75 million in the third quarter of 2009.
October 28, 2010
Md. PSC Approves Nov. 1 Start for Standard Electronic Gas Market Transactions at BGE
October 26, 2010
Champion Energy Lowers PECO Residential Pricing
October 25, 2010
West Penn Power Completes Default Service Procurements
October 22, 2010
FERC clarified its decision regarding the California PUC's Combined Heat and Power purchase obligation and associated pricing, currently only applicable to the investor owned utilities, to hold that, "the concept of a multi-tiered avoided cost rate structure is consistent with the avoided cost…
October 22, 2010
Under the guise of reform, FERC issued an order on RTO credit policies which will increase end users' costs for generation service by millions of dollars annually (RM10-13).
October 20, 2010
The agenda decision of California PUC President Michael Peevey, which would place a cap on tradable REC usage for RPS compliance by electric service providers, would retroactively apply this limit effective as of March 11, 2010 (the effective date of the earlier tradable REC decision, D.10-03-021)…
October 19, 2010
Md. Staff Recommend Commission Note IGS Filing to Use Columbia Retail Energy Trade Name
October 19, 2010
Pacific Gas & Electric said that its acceptance of six-month Notices of Intent from legacy direct-access eligible customers during the period between March 11, 2010 and April 11, 2010 complied with the California PUC's order regarding the direct access load cap and its own tariffs (R. 07-05-025).
October 18, 2010
A proposed settlement in Pacific Gas & Electric's general rate case (A. 09-12-020 et. al.) would eliminate PG&E's proposed revenue requirement for customer retention activities.
October 11, 2010
Viridian Seeks to Expand Pa. Electric License
October 4, 2010
The California ISO, several California generators, and the state's major investor-owned utilities have filed a settlement at FERC governing the allocation of payments required of market participants to cover defaults in the CAISO market. Several municipal utilities as well as FERC Staff have…
October 1, 2010
Calif. ALJ Posts Updated Local RA True-Up White Paper
September 30, 2010
Commercial Energy of Montana, under proceeding R. 07-05-025, petitioned the California PUC to issue an order to show cause to Pacific Gas & Electric directing PG&E to demonstrate, "why it should not be deemed out of compliance with the Commission's Decision (D.) 10-03-022, regarding implementation…
September 28, 2010
An assigned commissioner's ruling from California PUC Commissioner Nancy Ryan in the PUC's review of third-party access to electricity usage data directed the state's investor-owned utilities to describe current practices for providing customers with access to usage and pricing information; the…
