November 17, 2011
BlueStar Energy Solutions Acquires TruBrite Energy Management
BlueStar Energy Solutions announced this morning that it has acquired TruBrite Energy Management.
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November 16, 2011
Constellation, Marriott Sign Load Response Agreement for 250 Properties
Constellation Energy and Marriott International, Inc. announced this morning an agreement to develop over 23 megawatts of load response capability across more than 250 Marriott-managed hotel properties in the mid-Atlantic, New England, New York, Texas and California.
November 16, 2011
Calif. Draft Would Set Deadline for Modification of Power Charge Indifference Amount Upon New Methodology
A draft California PUC decision (A. 11-06-004) would require Pacific Gas and Electric to file a petition for modification of the decision establishing its Power Charge Indifference Amount (PCIA) for 2012 within 60 days of the issuance of a decision in R.07-05-025, where changes to the methodology…
November 14, 2011
Calif. PUC Approves Greater Access to Customer Info. for CCAs
The California PUC approved a final resolution allowing community choice aggregators (CCAs), and communities studying CCA implementation, to receive additional customer information from Pacific Gas & Electric (1/7) .
November 1, 2011
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Hearing Date Pushed Back for Consideration of Use of AEP Trade Name by Mass Market REP
October 21, 2011
Calif. PUC Opens 2013 Local Resource Adequacy Rulemaking
The California PUC opened Rulemaking 11-10-023 to establish local resource adequacy (RA) procurement obligations, and make other refinements to the RA program, for the 2013 compliance year.
October 20, 2011
Stanford Seeks Exemption from Direct Access Cost Responsibility Surcharge for Historically Self-Served Load
Stanford University has requested that the California PUC modify Decision 03-04-030 to clarify that loads that were served by customer generation prior to February 1, 2001 and that subsequently switch to direct access (DA) service are only obligated to pay DA cost responsibility surcharges (CRS)…
October 20, 2011
Revised Calif. Draft Would Remove Some Procurement Costs from Retail Supplier Security Calculations
A California PUC agenda (draft) decision concerning electric service provider (ESP) security requirements would remove certain costs, for non-mass market customers, originally proposed to be included in the security requirements (R. 07-05-025).
October 12, 2011
Algonquin Power & Utilities Expresses Interest in Acquiring Western Wind
Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. has expressed interest in acquiring Western Wind, a renewable energy developer with assets in California and Arizona, though the two companies now dispute whether Algonquin has made a formal offer.
October 10, 2011
Calif. Scoping Ruling: "No Basis" at this Time to Exclude ESPs from Smart Grid Privacy Rules
"[T]here is no basis at this time to doubt that the Commission has authority to adopt privacy rules for either ESPs [electric service providers] or CCAs [community choice aggregators]," California PUC President Michael Peevey said in a scoping ruling concerning smart grid privacy standards, though a…
October 10, 2011
Calif. Draft Would Exclude Unbundled RECs from Meeting Largest RPS Carve-Out Category
A draft California PUC decision would determine that unbundled RECs may not be used to satisfy the Pub. Util. Code § 399.16(b)(1) RPS requirement, which under the recent SB 2 (1X) is the largest among three carve-outs in the RPS, starting at 50% of the total RPS requirement for the 2013 compliance…
October 7, 2011
Calif. Draft Would Increase Customer Info Accessible by Community Choice Aggregators
A draft California PUC resolution (E-4420) would allow Pacific Gas & Electric to share additional customer information with community choice aggregators (CCAs) and entities investigating becoming CCAs.
October 3, 2011
Exelon, NextEra Acquire Projects from First Solar
Exelon Corporation announced its acquisition of Antelope Valley Solar Ranch One, a 230-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) project under development in northern Los Angeles County, Calif., from First Solar, which developed and will build, operate, and maintain the project.
September 30, 2011
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The Illinois Commerce Commission has, apparently, revised the Price to Compare for residential non-space heating customers at Commonwealth Edison for the period October 2011 through May 2012. The Price to Compare page on Plug In Illinois, as well as an updated news release, now lists the ComEd Price…
September 13, 2011
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Constellation Energy has launched VirtuWatt 3.0, the next generation of its online energy management application for commercial users. VirtuWatt 3.0 provides users the ability to customize data views, including grid load, temperature and electricity price correlation, and day-ahead and real-time…
September 8, 2011
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Regulation, Ramping RA Obligation for California LSEs Deferred to Future Rulemaking
September 2, 2011
NextEra Subsidiary to Sell Four Generating Assets
A NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, subsidiary has entered into an agreement to sell its ownership interest in a portfolio of natural gas-fired generating assets to an affiliate of LS Power for $1.05 billion, subject to working capital and other adjustments.
August 30, 2011
CAISO to Soon File Tariff Changes to Cease Virtual Bidding at Interties
The California ISO will soon be submitting a filing with FERC to remove from its current market design the ability for parties to submit virtual bids at the interties, with such activity to be prohibited as soon as early November 2011 (ER11-4384).
August 26, 2011
License Briefs
Xoom Energy Receives Michigan Gas License
August 24, 2011
Calif. Draft Would Make Electric Supplier Bond Cover All Incremental Costs from Involuntary Mass Transition
A draft California PUC decision would conclude that the security posted by electric service providers must include all of the investor-owned utilities' (IOUs) incremental costs to serve customers involuntarily returned to the utility, and would adopt, with modifications, a formula proposed by…
August 22, 2011
FERC Opens Probe of Manipulation of California Bid Cost Recovery Mechanism
FERC has opened a non-public, formal investigation regarding energy market manipulation that may have occurred in connection with certain bidding practices which artificially increased payments under the bid cost recovery mechanism in the California ISO (ER11-3856).
August 19, 2011
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Printing Industries of Michigan Selects Constellation as Endorsed Supplier
August 11, 2011
Ampegy to Expand to All Spark Energy Territories By Year End
Ampegy will expand to all of Spark Energy's territories by the end of the year, Todd Thoman, president of Ampegy, told Matters.
August 10, 2011
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PUCT Approves Lower Discretionary Service Charges at TCC and TNC
August 10, 2011
Calif. PUC Draft Would Impose Conditions for Demand Response to Receive Local RA Credit
The California PUC issued a proposed decision which would modify several aspects of the treatment of demand response under the Resource Adequacy (RA) mechanism.