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March 23, 2012
The California PUC has directed Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric to enter into contract negotiations with Calpine for Calpine to maintain operation of the Sutter Energy Center, with costs recovered via nonbypassable charge.
March 8, 2012
Consistent with a prior PUC decision, the large California investor-owned utilities have submitted plans to provide third-parties with access to customers' electricity usage data via the utility's backhaul, when authorized by the customer.
March 2, 2012
Several direct access parties have petitioned the California PUC to direct the investor-owned utilities to report on the status of the most recent direct access Notice of Intent period, and to update their websites to reflect current room under the direct access cap.
February 22, 2012
A proposed California PUC decision would find that there is no need for additional generation by 2020 at this time, and would refine the process to compare competitive offers to build new generation with utility owned generation.
February 17, 2012
FERC approved a settlement adjusting the capacity price under the California ISO's Capacity Procurement Mechanism (CPM), and other terms of the mechanism (ER11-2256).
February 16, 2012
WGES Names Melanie Santiago-Mosier Director of Regulatory and Legislative Affairs
February 15, 2012
Clearview Electric Receives License in New State
February 9, 2012
CL&P Reports Last Resort Service Suppliers
February 9, 2012
The California PUC has directed the investor-owned utilities to file proposals for the calculation of electric service provider security.
February 8, 2012
A draft California PUC decision would grant Stanford University a requested waiver of the application of the direct access cost responsibility surcharge (CRS) for certain amounts of its load, but would tailor the decision narrowly to the instant circumstances and decline to set a blanket policy for…
February 7, 2012
A California PUC agenda (draft) resolution would institute a rulemaking to consider and adopt a code of conduct, rules, and enforcement procedures governing the conduct of electrical corporations relative to the consideration, formation, and implementation of community choice aggregation (CCA)…
February 3, 2012
Retail suppliers and other competitive supply parties have asked the California PUC to consider the further unbundling of distribution rates at Pacific Gas & Electric.
February 1, 2012
Marking its 15th year of service, the National Energy Marketers Association recently met in executive session and adopted policy priorities for 2012.
January 24, 2012
Constellation Energy today announced an agreement with PureSense Environmental, Inc. to provide automated load response programs to customers of PureSense Environmental's energy response program, PureSenseESP.
January 18, 2012
A California PUC comment (draft) resolution would direct Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric to negotiate to enter into a contract with Calpine's Sutter Energy Center to end no later than December 31, 2012, and would adopt a nonbypassable charge to pay…
January 17, 2012
The amount of new direct access load available under Phase IV of the limited re-opening of direct access in California has already been fully subscribed, several suppliers told Matters after January 13, the first day that suppliers and customers were permitted to file six-month notices to take…
January 13, 2012
The California PUC has directed the investor owned utilities to better account for expected direct access load in their bundled procurement plans.
January 3, 2012
Pacific Gas & Electric has filed an application with the California PUC to modify the fees charged for various services provided to electric service providers and community choice aggregators, which includes an increase in certain consolidated billing fees.
December 30, 2011
A California PUC comment (draft) resolution would adopt Pacific Gas & Electric's proposed New Customer Protection Rules applicable to Core Transport Agents (CTAs) with two modifications, relating to the effective date, and to the treatment of recently merged companies in measuring compliance.
December 16, 2011
The California PUC yesterday adopted a final decision to implement the new RPS portfolio content categories established in SB 2 (1X).
December 14, 2011
A revised California PUC agenda decision would add greater detail regarding rules for reselling RPS-eligible contracts in order to maintain the contract's original classification into one of three statutory RPS categories, but would not provide two major revisions sought by retail suppliers (R.…
December 2, 2011
The California PUC adopted as final new rules governing security requirements applicable to electric service providers, and adjustments to the Market Price Benchmark (MPB) used to determine the nonbypassable indifference charges assigned to customers leaving bundled utility service (Rulemaking 07-05…
November 28, 2011
FERC accepted but suspended the California ISO's tariffs to eliminate convergence bidding at intertie locations, finding that the proposal may be unjust, unreasonable, unduly discriminatory, or preferential, and ordered a technical conference (ER11-4580).
November 22, 2011
A fourth revision to a California PUC proposed decision regarding electric service provider security requirements would exclude certain small commercial accounts from triggering heightened security requirements for electric service providers, while also deferring to a subsequent proceeding the…
November 21, 2011
NRG Energy, Inc. announced this morning that it has acquired San Francisco-based Solar Power Partners, a developer of commercial and industrial distributed solar projects.
