January 11, 2013
Entergy's explanations regarding power purchase agreements Entergy intends to modify at FERC, to allow the PPAs to terminate upon MISO membership, are, "almost to the point of being unbelievable," Texas Public Utility Commissioner Kenneth Anderson said during yesterday's open meeting.
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January 11, 2013
The Illinois Commerce Commission has issued orders initiating proceedings to determine whether the Commission should suspend the agent, broker, and consultant licenses of 10 brokers for allegedly failing to file their 2011 reports by March 31, 2012.
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January 10, 2013
Texas Approves Further Change in Ownership of Retail Provider
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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 9, 2013
Alpha Gas and Electric Seeks Licenses in New State
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January 8, 2013
Affiliated Electric Group Seeks Aggregator Certificate
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January 7, 2013
Land O'Lakes, Inc. has been granted an Ohio electric supplier license to self-supply power to its own facilities.
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January 4, 2013
Ameren Rate Zone II (CILCO) saw a net decline in the number of residential electric customers on competitive supply from October 31, 2012 to November 30, 2012, according to a snapshot of statistics posted by the Illinois Commerce Commission.
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January 3, 2013
Detroit Edison and Consumers Energy have filed their initial electric choice caps for 2013.
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January 3, 2013
Perigee Energy, LLC has applied for a Pennsylvania electric supplier license to serve all customer classes in all service areas.
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January 2, 2013
Buckeye Energy Brokers, Inc. Expanding to New State
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December 28, 2012
The Maryland PSC granted Bith Solar I, LLC an electric supplier license to serve commercial and industrial customers. See prior story for background on Bith Solar
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December 28, 2012
Direct Energy Services, LLC (DES) has proposed to make a $25,000 charitable donation to resolve 13 Michigan enrollments which occurred without customer authorization, with such unauthorized enrollments the result of four sales agents that, "purposefully manipulate[d] DES's quality assurance measures…
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December 28, 2012
FERC erred in requiring the Midwest ISO to include in its tariff a mechanism allowing the Provider of Last Resort to recover, through the MISO tariff, "administrative" costs of procuring so-called "gap" capacity -- demand that is unserved due to load switching among load serving entities, MISO said…
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December 28, 2012
Retail suppliers in the Midwest ISO contesting their assigned demand forecasts, and the capacity obligations inherent in such forecasts, will be subject to the MISO alternate dispute resolution process, a process which MISO concedes is, "neither rapid nor free of costs."
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December 26, 2012
The Michigan PSC has adopted revised license applications to be used by prospective alternative electric suppliers and alternative natural gas suppliers.
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December 26, 2012
Entergy Texas, Inc.'s intention to file at FERC to change the termination language of certain unit purchased power agreements (PPAs) between Entergy Texas, Inc. (ETI) and Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, LLC (EGSL) may change the net costs and benefits of ETI joining MISO, and the finding that MISO…
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December 24, 2012
A written order from the Illinois Commerce Commission on the Illinois Power Agency procurement plan provides that customers on competitive supply, and not alternative retail electric suppliers themselves, will be charged a share of the costs from the procurement of supply from the FutureGen 2.0…
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December 21, 2012
Ameren Corporation (Ameren) has determined that, "it intends to, and it is probable that it will," exit its Merchant Generation business segment before the end of the previously estimated useful lives of that business segment's long-lived assets.
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December 20, 2012
EQT Corporation today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement for the transfer of its natural gas distribution business, Equitable Gas Company, LLC, to Peoples Natural Gas.
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December 20, 2012
Verde Energy USA announced that it has been selected by the Illinois communities of Glen Ellyn, Hinckley, Oak Lawn, and Somonauk to provide energy under their opt-out electricity aggregation programs.
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December 20, 2012
The Illinois Commerce Commission yesterday entered an order approving the Illinois Power Agency's 2013 default service procurement plan, which orders the utilities to procure power from a clean coal plant, and then charge retail suppliers a share of such costs.
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December 19, 2012
PUCO today deferred consideration of both settlements for consideration on its next agenda
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December 19, 2012
TXU Energy Reports Customer Engagement with Energy Management Tools
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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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