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June 12, 2013
The failure of Connecticut to pass a retail auction of Standard Service customers during this year's legislative session is a sobering reminder of the Herculean challenges facing an expansion of retail choice, and like the Pennsylvania experience, will negatively impact efforts in other states to…
June 10, 2013
5LINX Enterprise, Inc. has purchased 75% of the ownership interests in a retail energy supplier.
May 30, 2013
The Hercules, Calif. City Council has approved an agreement under which Pacific Gas and Electric Company will purchase the assets of Hercules Municipal Utility (HMU).
May 29, 2013
FERC has scheduled a technical conference regarding its intrusion into California's resource adequacy policy debate
May 29, 2013
A proposed decision from a California ALJ would impose a flexible capacity requirement on load serving entities, including retail suppliers, as part of the current bilateral resource adequacy (RA) framework, but would not institute the requirement for the 2014 RA year.
May 8, 2013
Several California end-users, along with competitive market trade associations, sent a series of letters to the California General Assembly in support of a bill to increase the current caps on the amount of electric direct access load.
April 30, 2013
New England and New York could follow California in essentially re-regulating new build power generation through the use of regulator-directed procurements, Julien Dumoulin-Smith said in a note to UBS Investment Research clients.
April 30, 2013
The trend in the retail electric sector is, "towards re-regulation; not further de-regulation," Julien Dumoulin-Smith said in a note to UBS Investment Research clients.
April 15, 2013
Pacific Gas & Electric has filed for California PUC approval of a settlement agreement with certain parties, including TURN, to revise PG&E's original green option tariff and allow customers to voluntarily purchase up to 100% renewable power on a "bundled" (asset-backed) basis. PG&E said that the…
April 2, 2013
Direct Energy Business announced that it is now offering natural gas supply to non-residential customers at three California utilities.
April 1, 2013
Just as it has done in the Northeast, FERC is setting up the California market for FERC's preferred resource adequacy construct, ordering a technical conference to "collectively" pursue solutions to "reliability," but in reality meaning generation adequacy.
February 14, 2013
A final decision from the California PUC allows Southern California Edison to procure over 2,000 MW of electric capacity to meet local capacity requirements, with the procurement eligible for cost allocation mechanism (CAM) treatment. The PUC also declined to make any changes in the CAM, such as…
February 13, 2013
PacifiCorp and the California Independent System Operator Corporation have released a memorandum of understanding that commits the two largest western U.S. grid operators to work toward creating a real-time energy imbalance market (EIM) by October of 2014.
February 5, 2013
eVgo, NRG Energy's electric vehicle charging service provider, confirmed to Matters that it will be offering chargers and related services to homeowners in the District of Columbia area in addition to building out a public EV charging network, which was announced last week .
February 1, 2013
NRG Energy announced that its eVgo electric vehicle charging network will work with Nissan to deliver 40 EV Fast Chargers to the Washington D.C. area.
January 30, 2013
The California PUC adopted a formula to determine the amount of financial security and re-entry fee requirements applicable to Electric Service Providers (ESPs), and also defined the size of customers for which security must be provided.
January 24, 2013
NRG Energy Signs as Partner of San Francisco 49ers Stadium
January 23, 2013
DB Energy Trading LLC will pay a $1.5 million civil penalty, and disgorge $172,000 plus interest, to resolve a FERC show cause proceeding regarding manipulation of California power markets.
January 23, 2013
Ambit Energy announced this morning that it officially passed 1 million residential customers in December.
January 14, 2013
A California PUC proposed decision would advance the deadline by which electric service providers must show their monthly compliance with resource adequacy obligations.
January 14, 2013
Network marketer Independence Energy is now marketing residential natural gas supply in four states, with Diversegy brokering the supply and Infinite Energy and Vista Energy among the suppliers of the offers
January 10, 2013
EDF Trading this morning announced that it has acquired the Midwest commercial and industrial natural gas customer portfolio of ConocoPhillips.
January 3, 2013
Southern California Edison has petitioned the California PUC to recover costs of the 45 MW McGrath Peaker Generating Station, with such recovery applying to all "benefiting" customers, not just bundled service customers.
December 26, 2012
A proposed decision from the California PUC would allow Southern California Edison to procure nearly 1,800 MW in local capacity requirements, with such procurement eligible for cost allocation mechanism (CAM) treatment. The draft order would also decline to make any changes in the CAM, such as those…
December 21, 2012
Calif. Adopts Lottery to Assign Available Direct Access Load
