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January 17, 2011
5Linx Enterprises, Inc., a direct/multi-level marketing company that offers various telecom and other services, is expanding its product suite to include competitive electricity and natural gas sales, with a rollout sometime this month.
January 13, 2011
The Secretary of the New York PSC has denied an appeal from Hess Corporation regarding a record access officer's earlier determination denying confidential protection to sales contracts which Hess filed with the PSC in compliance with the Uniform Business Practices.
January 11, 2011
Energetix has started offering residential electric service at PPL Electric Utilities.
January 11, 2011
The Maryland PSC has rejected as unsupported a largely consensus working group report which would have governed the use of standard electronic transactions between natural gas local distribution companies and competitive suppliers, per COMAR 20.59.
January 7, 2011
Green Mountain Energy's contract to supply the Empire State Building ( 1/6 ) is intended to boost the supplier's visibility and credibility with its new target market of larger commercial customers, and is the type of contract facilitated by Green Mountain ownership under NRG Energy, Green Mountain…
January 6, 2011
Major Energy Receives Maryland Electric License The Maryland PSC granted Major Energy Electric Services, LLC an electric supplier license to serve residential, commercial and industrial customers at Baltimore Gas & Electric ( 11/2 ).
January 5, 2011
The New York ISO and New York Transmission Owners have asked FERC to approve several "criteria and considerations" for identifying a possible need for new capacity zones, and for triggering a requirement to further evaluate such potential zones (ER04-449 et. al.).
January 3, 2011
The New York ISO has filed with FERC proposed tariff amendments to revise provisions concerning the Market Power Mitigation Measures and the Market Monitoring Plan.
December 31, 2010
FERC has re-prioritized initiatives designed to mitigate the impacts of Lake Erie loop flows, emphasizing interface pricing revisions and congestion management/market-to-market coordination agreements while removing buy-through congestion as a top priority (ER08-1281).
December 30, 2010
Hess Corporation has appealed a New York PSC records access officer's determination that standard form contracts submitted by ESCOs to show compliance with the Uniform Business Practices are not eligible for confidential protection.
December 28, 2010
Maine PUC Discloses Standard Offer Supply Winners NextEra Energy Power Marketing, LLC won 33% of the Standard Offer load requirements for the residential and small commercial customer class at Central Maine Power for the three year period beginning March 1, 2011. New Brunswick Power Generation…
December 28, 2010
A New York PSC records access officer denied Hess Corporation's request for continued confidential treatment of a standard variable rate contract submitted as part of compliance with the Uniform Business Practices, and granted a Freedom of Information Law Request (FOIL) from Halifax-American Energy…
December 27, 2010
The New York ISO has filed with FERC proposed tariff revisions to improve shortage pricing for its Regulation Service and Operating Reserves products by modifying the existing demand curves applicable to those products to better reflect the value of energy during shortage conditions and to improve…
December 27, 2010
The National Energy Marketers Association has recommended revisions to several safe harbor provisions proposed by National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation in its New York tariff revisions regarding imbalances and cash-outs (10-G-0474, 12/8 ).
December 27, 2010
An unopposed settlement in Pike County Light & Power's default service proceeding would continue the current spot market based procurement for an additional year, through May 31, 2012 (P-2010-2194652).
December 24, 2010
The New York PSC has maintained an October 1, 2011 start date for the expansion of hourly pricing to default service customers at Central Hudson Gas & Electric with demands greater than 500 kW in any two months during the previous twelve months (Case 08-E-0887).
December 23, 2010
Planet Energy Seeking Pa. Gas License Canadian retail supplier Planet Energy has applied for a Pennsylvania natural gas supplier license to serve residential and all sizes of commercial customers at PECO and Columbia Gas. Planet Energy further confirmed that it is, "currently taking steps to expand…
December 22, 2010
ICC Opens Rulemaking on ABC Licensing, Rules The Illinois Commerce Commission has opened Docket 10-0733 to address in a rulemaking amendments to 83 Ill. Adm. Code 454, relating to electric agent, broker, and consultant licensing. No documents are yet associated with the docket. However, legislation…
December 21, 2010
An analysis of the New York ISO ICAP market for the Winter 2009-2010 and Summer 2010 Capability Periods did not raise any withholding concerns, the New York ISO reported to FERC.
December 20, 2010
The Small Customer Marketer Coalition has raised new concerns regarding revised imbalance procedures at National Fuel Gas Distribution in New York, specifically regarding the components used in the index price for cash-outs (10-G-0474).
December 20, 2010
ESCOs will have to receive a new customer consent to renew residential customers onto contracts with material changes, but the definition of material changes excludes changes only in price, or renewals onto a monthly variable rate, under revisions to the New York Uniform Business Practices issued…
December 17, 2010
FERC Approves FirstEnergy-Allegheny Merger In an unsurprising decision given its merger review history, FERC approved the merger of FirstEnergy Corp. and Allegheny Energy without any conditions relating to mitigation of market power. In doing so, FERC rejected protests from the Pennsylvania Office…
December 17, 2010
The New York PSC instituted a proceeding to review Lost And Unaccounted For gas at Consolidated Edison, and also instituted a review of stranded natural gas capacity costs at New York State Electric and Gas.
December 17, 2010
As noted during our live blog yesterday, the New York PSC adopted a final ESCO Consumer Bill of Rights. A written order has not yet been published, though a copy of the Bill of Rights can be found attached to the PSC's press release .
December 15, 2010
A recommended decision in Niagara Mohawk's rate case needs to reconcile disparate treatment of true-ups for the Merchant Function Charge (MFC) paid by full service customers and the POR discount rate, New York PSC Staff said in a brief on exceptions (10-E-0050). Staff did not opine on its preference…
