December 29, 2016
New York State Electric & Gas Corporation (NYSEG) and Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation (RG&E) have petitioned the New York PSC for approval of the territory-wide deployment of advanced metering infrastructure for their electricity and gas meters
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December 27, 2016
The New York PSC has scheduled for January 18, 2017 a procedural conference concerning Track I of the PSC's recently initiated evidentiary process reviewing the retail energy markets, including a potential total ban on mass market ESCO service
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December 23, 2016
Says Courts Have Rejected "Carte Blanche" Rationale Of State Agencies Engaging In Legislative Functions Through Broad General Authority
Cites Court's Strike Of NYC Soda Ban As Precedent Preventing Agencies From Using Broad General Authority For Legislative Purposes
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December 20, 2016
Liberty Power Holdings LLC ("Liberty") has sought clarification and/or rehearing on the New York PSC's Zero Emissions Credit (ZEC) order with respect to implementation of the calculation of ZEC obligations for individual LSEs, saying a "material" drop in Liberty Power Holdings LLC's load in New York…
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December 20, 2016
PSC: "Appropriate" To Mitigate Full Service Customers' Supply Bill In Light Of Simultaneous Delivery Rate Increase Demand Costs Had Been Set "Too Low" For Full Service Customers
The New York PSC has approved a deferral of certain supply costs that would have otherwise been required to be reflected in default service rates at KeySpan New York (The Brooklyn Union Gas Company d/b/a National Grid NY) starting on January 1, 2017, citing, in part, the need to temper the bills of…
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December 19, 2016
The New York PSC has reinstated Astral Energy, LLC's ability to market to and enroll non-residential customers.
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December 19, 2016
ESCO Must Show Why Eligibility Should Not Be Revoked
The New York PSC has issued a show cause order to Atlantic Power & Gas, LLC, after a Staff Notice of Apparent Failure (NOAF) alleged non-compliance with several of the UBP’s marketing requirements.
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December 19, 2016
As noted in our related story today, the PSC is permitting ESCOs to seek a waiver of the low-income prohibition for guaranteed savings products, and the PSC said in such order that it would potentially reconsider any other products identified in the larger mass market review that are found to offer…
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December 19, 2016
The New York PSC has given ESCOs only 30 days from the effective date of the PSC's December 16 order prohibiting ESCO service to low-income customers to seek a waiver of the prohibition through the offering of a guaranteed savings product
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December 15, 2016
Allows ESCOs To Seek Waiver For Certain Product Commissioner Burman: NY PSC, "Regulating By Press Release" Critical Of Process, Burman Says She Only Learned Of Mass Market Evidentiary Hearing Process Through Press
Update 2 (12/16): Additional Notes And Statements Made During PSC Meeting:
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December 15, 2016
On December 8, 2016, Abest Power & Gas executed an Asset Purchase Agreement with Public Power, LLC, a unit of Crius Energy, pursuant to which Public Power will acquire Abest’s retail electric supply customers.
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December 12, 2016
KeySpan New York and KeySpan Long Island (National Grid) have initiated an ESCO collaborative process, as provided for in a recent rate case, to address several ESCO-related issues.
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December 8, 2016
New York ESCO Receives Licenses In New State
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December 6, 2016
Citing the "misleading" impact large prior period reconciliations have on customers' purchasing decisions and comparison of ESCO and utility supply rates, the National Energy Marketers Association said that the New York PSC's utility gas cost reconciliation process as set forth in the Commission’s…
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December 5, 2016
Price Caps, Prohibiting Door-to-Door And Telemarketing, And Adding Recourse To POR Other Potential Outcomes Void Of Existing ESCO Contracts Under Consideration
The New York PSC has established an evidentiary hearing process to consider whether to adopt a complete prohibition on ESCO service to mass market customers, or other market, "reforms."
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December 2, 2016
The National Energy Marketers Association is seeking a court order to conduct discovery on data filed by the New York PSC in support of its order imposing a moratorium on ESCO service to Assistance Program Participant customers, alleging that the data is, "deeply flawed." The PSC opposed discovery…
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December 2, 2016
Crius Energy announced its first cross-brand promotion, designed to celebrate the company's one millionth customer milestone.
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December 2, 2016
Staff of the New York PSC have issued a Staff Assessment Report on Niagara Mohawk's Clifton Park Demand Reduction Reforming the Energy Vision Demonstration Project, which includes NiMo's proposal for what is essentially a utility-directed opt-out municipal aggregation program coordinated with the…
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December 1, 2016
Sungevity, Inc. and Just Energy Group Inc. announced a partnership to offer solar power systems to residential customers
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November 29, 2016
The New Hampshire PUC has proposed revisions to its electric supplier rules that include new disclosures required from aggregators.
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November 23, 2016
The "forcible de-enrollment" of New York low-income customers from ESCO service in New York, as ordered by the New York PSC (with such order subject to a temporary court injunction), will deprive low-income customers of savings available versus utility supply rates, compels low-income customers, "to…
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November 21, 2016
An analysis by New York PSC Staff filed with the Supreme Court for the County of Albany indicates that low-income customers served by ESCOs in aggregate paid $96 million more than what the cost would have been under default service for the period January 2014 through June 2016.
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November 21, 2016
PSEG Energy Solutions LLC, PSEG's new retail supplier, has applied for a Pennsylvania electric supplier license to serve large commercial (over 25 kW), industrial, and governmental customers in all service areas.
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November 20, 2016
Calpine Energy Services Holdco LLC has entered into a transaction under which it will indirectly acquire all of the membership interests of North American Power and Gas, LLC and North American Power Business, LLC from various private individuals and entities formed for the benefit of certain of…
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November 18, 2016
Uplift Allowed For Costs in Excess of $2,000/MWh FERC Acknowledges Difficulties in Verifying Costs Above $1,000, Subjects Load To Them Anyway
FERC has adopted a hard cap of $2,000/MWh for the energy markets in all the FERC-jurisdictional RTOs, with offers up to $2,000/MWh permitted to set LMP, and offers in excess of $2,000/MWh also permitted but with offers in excess of $2,000/MWh not setting LMP and addressed instead through make-whole…
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