October 4, 2013
Retail Supplier "Default" Drops Customers to Utility Supply Service
A Connecticut retail electric supplier has "defaulted" and its customers were dropped to utility service.
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October 3, 2013
License Briefs
Start-up Neighborhood Energy of New England, LLC registered as a New Hampshire electric aggregator.
September 30, 2013
Choose Energy Acquires Competing Online Energy Shopping Platform, Business
Choose Energy announced today that is has acquired Power2Switch, a competitor in the online energy shopping and brokering business.
September 27, 2013
North American Power Launches Service in New Territories
North American Power has launched electric service at Granite State Electric (Liberty Utilities) and Unitil in New Hampshire
September 26, 2013
Unitil Describes Mechanics of Solution to Purchase of Receivables
Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company, d/b/a Unitil, has updated the Massachusetts DPU on the status of purchase of receivables implementation, including a more detailed description of the mechanics to implement POR prior to a new CIS.
September 24, 2013
Briefly
Entergy Texas Refiles to Transfer Transmission to ITC
September 23, 2013
Maine PUC Sets New Standard Offer Rates
The Maine PUC has set the Standard Offer rates for the large non-residential classes at Central Maine Power and Bangor Hydro Electric for the month of October.
September 23, 2013
License Briefs
Plymouth Rock Energy Seeks Gas Supplier License in Another New State
September 23, 2013
Viridian Launches Partnership to Offer Distributed Solar, Also Launches Carbon Offset Product for Gas Service
Viridian Energy is teaming with Solar City to provide distributed solar installations to its customers.
September 20, 2013
License Briefs
PNE Energy Supply Seeks License in New State
September 20, 2013
ISO New England: "Difficult" to Call Capacity Market a Success When Resources Fail to Perform, and NERC Violation Occurs (Solution is to Borrow from Energy-Only Market!)
"It is difficult to declare the [ISO New England] capacity market a success if a significant number of the resources that have been selected and compensated as capacity resources fail to perform as needed," Robert Ethier, Vice President of Market Development for ISO New England, said in comments at…
September 19, 2013
Massachusetts DPU Chair: 70 Additional Communities Expected to Launch Municipal Aggregation in Next Two Years
Over 70 additional Massachusetts communities are expected to seek approval for opt-out municipal aggregations over the next two years, Ann Berwick, Chair of the Massachusetts DPU, told the Retail Energy Supply Association's Energy Competition Symposium.
September 18, 2013
Ambit to Launch in New States, Markets in October
Ambit Energy will offer retail electric service in two new states by the end of October, and expand to an additional natural gas market in an existing state.
September 17, 2013
Lesson for Texas: ISO-NE Capacity Market Fails; FERC (Again) Tells Retail Suppliers to Pound Sand; Allocates New, Unhedgeable Backstop Costs to Real-Time Load
Showing once again its utter indifference to realities of the retail electric market, FERC has assigned unhedgeable, out-of-market costs to load serving entities, such as retail suppliers, deeming that retail suppliers "benefit" from such costs.
September 16, 2013
Northeast Capacity Owner CEO Warns of "Disastrous" Consequences from Current Capacity Market Design; Calls Markets "Not Sustainable"
The northeast RTOs are facing "disastrous" consequences if they do not reform their capacity markets, Entergy Corporation Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Leo Denault said during a Barclays conference Friday, further affirming that capacity market designs are not successful markets which assure…
September 13, 2013
Connecticut Legislators Question Need for Retail Auction, Stress Need for Proposal to Originate at Energy Committee, Not Budget Process
Several Connecticut legislators, addressing the National Energy Marketers Association Connecticut Policy Leadership Roundtable, expressed skepticism about a retail auction of electric default service customers, and said that addressing the auction through the budget process, rather than the Energy &…
September 13, 2013
Connecticut DEEP Commissioner: Default Service Customers Have Done "Systemically" Less Well Than Choice Customers, Change "Imperative"
Default service electric customers in Connecticut have done systemically less well in terms of electric generation costs than customers who have exercised choice, which compels changes to the market, Daniel Esty, Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection…
September 12, 2013
With Blackouts in Capacity-Market Dependent PJM, Texas Has Its Answer on Whether It Needs Mandated Reserve Margin (The Answer is "No")
Although the superior policy was already clear for a variety of reasons, the institution of involuntary firm load shed in PJM, due in part to a lack of available generating capacity (click here for story) , provides Texas with the inescapable conclusion that requiring a mandated reserve margin to be…
September 11, 2013
New Canadian Retail Supplier to Expand to U.S., with Wealth of Retail Market Veterans
A Canadian retail energy supplier is expanding its operations to the United States.
September 10, 2013
Briefly
AEP, Dominion Retail File Settlement Over SECA Charges
September 10, 2013
License Briefs
Texas REP Files to Use Trade Name Beyond Power
September 9, 2013
North American Power Launches in New State Today, Names Next Markets for Entry
North American Power will formally launch its Georgia natural gas service today, for customers at Atlanta Gas Light.
September 5, 2013
ISO-NE Seeks to Change Capacity Market Rules Because Current Regs Have Yet to Require Capacity Resources to Perform
ISO New England has sought changes to the forward capacity market design because the current rules have never actually required capacity resources to meet performance obligations.
September 4, 2013
License Briefs
Retail Supplier Union Atlantic Electricity Seeks License in New State
September 4, 2013
ecobee Partners with New Retail Supplier to Offer Wi-Fi Connected Thermostats
ecobee announced a new partnership with retail supplier Electricity Maine and Thayer Corporation to execute a pilot project as part of the Efficiency Maine Innovation Program.