HomeNews By StateCalifornia
Narrow these results by state, topic, company or docket — filters stack, and every story shown carries all of them.
February 22, 2018
Centrica's North America Business (C&I) segment delivered a, "poor financial result," in the second half of 2017, Centrica said in reporting preliminary results for the year ending December 31, 2017, due to increased competitive intensity and changes in market structure and input costs, including…
February 7, 2018
NRG Energy, Inc. and Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) have entered into a Purchase Agreement for GIP to purchase NRG's ownership in NRG Yield and NRG's Renewables Platform for cash proceeds of $1.375 billion, subject to certain adjustments.
January 24, 2018
Centrica Innovations (CI) has announced its investment in EtaGen, which Centrica described as, "a California based start-up developing a Linear Generator that offers businesses affordable and flexible onsite power that’s also reliable and clean."
January 12, 2018
California Attorney General (AG) Xavier Becerra announced a $102 million settlement with BP Energy Company and affiliates (BP) over allegations, as described by the AG's office, "that it intentionally overcharged the State of California for natural gas that the State purchased under three successive…
December 11, 2017
A draft California PUC resolution would alter the timeline for implementation of community choice aggregations (CCAs) such that CCAs would be required to file a statement of intent to serve load at least one year before such service starts, so that the CCA's load can be included in resource adequacy…
October 27, 2017
The California PUC adopted a decision which allows customers of direct access providers and community choice aggregators to avoid paying the tariffed rates used to recover the costs of discrete utility-offered demand response (DR) programs, if the customer's competitive LSE offers a DR program…
October 26, 2017
Texas PUC Commissioner Kenneth Anderson issued a memo in advance of today's open meeting concerning Sempra Energy's proposed acquisition of Oncor which outlines several concerns regarding Sempra's debt and credit ratings, which Anderson said should be addressed as the Commission adjudicates the…
October 26, 2017
Enel S.p.A., through its US subsidiary EnerNOC, announced the acquisition of California-based eMotorWerks, a supplier of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, called JuiceBox, and owner and operator of JuiceNet, an Internet of Things (IoT) platform for the smart management of EV charging and…
October 18, 2017
Consumer Demand for Energy Innovations Driving New Market Openings
The National Energy Marketers Association next week will host Nevada Lieutenant Governor Mark Hutchison, Nevada Assemblyman Chris Brooks, Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt, and a variety of other policymakers and retail energy thought leaders as NEM hosts an examination and symposium on opening…
October 9, 2017
Schedules New Workshop on Customer Choice
The California PUC will hold an informal workshop on customer choice (An Evaluation of Regulatory Framework Options for an Evolving Electric Market) on October 31 in Sacramento
September 22, 2017
Facebook has switched all electric accounts at its Menlo Park headquarters to Peninsula Clean Energy’s (PCE) ECO100 option, which is an option 100% renewable energy product for participants in the PCE community choice aggregation
September 21, 2017
CPower Energy Management has appointed JP Harper to lead its national sales and California market teams.
September 14, 2017
The National Energy Marketers Association has released a draft agenda for its Western Energy Policy Summit to be held at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas NV, October 23-25, 2017.
August 21, 2017
Sempra Energy today announced an agreement to acquire Energy Future Holdings Corp., the indirect owner of 80 percent of Oncor Electric Delivery Company, LLC
August 1, 2017
Centrica reported a decline in its North American Home energy supply customer count as it scaled back certain sales channels and focused efforts on higher margin customers in its Connected Home segment.
July 28, 2017
3 Phases Renewables, which offers direct access in California among other renewable energy solutions, announced today that it has become a Certified B Corporation.
June 30, 2017
The California PUC has opened a rulemaking to review the current Power Charge Indifference Adjustment (PCIA) and potential changes and alternatives
June 29, 2017
Note: The story below was first posted at 4:40 p.m. on June 29
June 21, 2017
The National Energy Marketers Association announced that it will be opening a new West Coast office in Nevada this summer, to supplement its current office in Washington, D.C.
June 13, 2017
Funding To Help Growth in Texas Sunnova Wants To Be Customers' "Primary Power Provider"
Sunnova Energy Corporation announced today it has raised aggregate capital of nearly $1 billion in the past three months after closing a $140 million round of debt funding with CIT Group and other investors this past week.
May 31, 2017
The Chron Organization, Inc. announced today that it has entered into a strategic marketing agreement with Viridian International Management, a direct selling organization, for medium to large commercial energy supply and related services.
May 30, 2017
A new organization, called The Energy Choice Coalition (ECC), dedicated to advancing the principles of consumer choice and competition in the United States electricity industry is slated to launch in the next month or so, the organization's leadership told EnergyChoiceMatters.com
May 22, 2017
The number of business customers eligible for direct access can be increased immediately without new legislation, Ron Perry, CEO of Commercial Energy, told a California en banc hearing on retail electric choice.
May 22, 2017
Electricity community choice aggregations (CCA) in California are only passing 1-2% in savings on to their customers even as the competitive wholesale market produces gross margin of 30% versus the utility rate, Ron Perry, CEO of Commercial Energy, told a California en banc hearing on retail…
April 26, 2017
Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric have petitioned the California PUC to implement a new methodology for allocating, to direct access and community choice aggregation customers, legacy generation costs for which the customers would continue to be…
