January 16, 2013
Public Service Electric and Gas saw a large jump in the growth rate of the number of residential natural gas customers on competitive supply during November, compared to the October growth, according to the latest stats from the New Jersey BPU.
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January 11, 2013
Entergy's explanations regarding power purchase agreements Entergy intends to modify at FERC, to allow the PPAs to terminate upon MISO membership, are, "almost to the point of being unbelievable," Texas Public Utility Commissioner Kenneth Anderson said during yesterday's open meeting.
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January 8, 2013
Williams Partners L.P. announced that its Transco pipeline has filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to provide another natural gas delivery point from its Transco pipeline to New York City.
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January 4, 2013
FERC Approves Cleveland Locational Deliverability Area
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January 3, 2013
Atlas Commodities is looking to expand into energy consulting and brokering for retail power and natural gas on nationwide basis.
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January 2, 2013
North America Power Partners LLC has requested that FERC extend the deadline for it to pay a previously ordered disgorgement and civil penalty, citing a decrease in revenue, which has impacted its ability to meet the deadlines.
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December 28, 2012
FERC erred in requiring the Midwest ISO to include in its tariff a mechanism allowing the Provider of Last Resort to recover, through the MISO tariff, "administrative" costs of procuring so-called "gap" capacity -- demand that is unserved due to load switching among load serving entities, MISO said…
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December 28, 2012
Retail suppliers in the Midwest ISO contesting their assigned demand forecasts, and the capacity obligations inherent in such forecasts, will be subject to the MISO alternate dispute resolution process, a process which MISO concedes is, "neither rapid nor free of costs."
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December 26, 2012
Entergy Texas, Inc.'s intention to file at FERC to change the termination language of certain unit purchased power agreements (PPAs) between Entergy Texas, Inc. (ETI) and Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, LLC (EGSL) may change the net costs and benefits of ETI joining MISO, and the finding that MISO…
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December 21, 2012
Calif. Adopts Lottery to Assign Available Direct Access Load
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December 20, 2012
EQT Corporation today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement for the transfer of its natural gas distribution business, Equitable Gas Company, LLC, to Peoples Natural Gas.
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December 19, 2012
Melissa Lauderdale, Director of Government & Regulatory Affairs at Integrys Energy Services, has been elected president of the Retail Energy Supply Association.
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December 19, 2012
An initial decision from a FERC ALJ would deny a proposal from the Midwest ISO and International Transmission Company (Joint Applicants) to recover from load in PJM and the New York ISO certain costs associated with Phase Angle Regulating transformers (PARs) located at Bunce Creek on the…
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December 18, 2012
FERC has approved a settlement between its Office of Enforcement, EnerNOC, Inc., and Celerity Energy Partners San Diego LLC under which EnerNOC and Celerity agree to pay a civil penalty of $820,000 and disgorge $656,000, plus interest, to resolve Enforcement's investigations into whether EnerNOC…
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December 10, 2012
PJM has submitted a filing at FERC to reflect the permanent termination of Bridge Energy Traders and JD Renewable Energy, L.L.C. as PJM members due to defaults.
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December 10, 2012
Revisions to the price floor in PJM's Reliability Pricing Model capacity market filed with FERC on Friday (see prior story) , "restrict[] the freedom with which prices are established by a competitive market," the Maryland PSC said in a statement.
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December 3, 2012
A power supply agreement (PSA) between Ohio Power Company and affiliate AEP Generation Resources Inc., meant to serve Standard Service Offer load for the period between the corporate separation of Ohio Power's generating assets and the start of fully auction-based SSO supply, could result in the…
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November 30, 2012
NDR Energy Group, LLC, which is engaged in natural gas marketing, has applied for market-based rate authority at FERC, stating that it, "intends to operate and sell electric energy as a retail electric provider in states that provide for retail choice."
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November 29, 2012
FERC approved a settlement between its Office of Enforcement and PacifiCorp to resolve Enforcement's non-public investigation of conduct by PacifiCorp Transmission Services (PTS) and PacifiCorp's marketing function, Commercial and Trading (C&T), that, "potentially violated PacifiCorp's open access…
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November 28, 2012
Implementation of a revised capacity market in the Midwest ISO continues to get more complex for competitive retail suppliers as FERC ordered the Midwest ISO to propose a mechanism to allow Providers of Last Resort, which are allocated any capacity obligations not accounted for in individual LSE…
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November 26, 2012
PJM has filed a settlement at FERC to revise the Cost of New Entry (CONE) in the capacity market, with the revisions higher than an earlier PJM proposal from December 2011, and also generally higher than current values.
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November 19, 2012
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved a settlement between its Office of Enforcement and Gila River Power LLC for what FERC said was, "Gila River's manipulation of power markets in California."
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November 15, 2012
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission suspended the market-based rate authority of J.P. Morgan Ventures Energy Corporation for a period of six months, to become effective on April 1, 2013, for what FERC found to be, "repeated submission of false and misleading statements" to the California ISO…
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November 15, 2012
Under a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, Exelon has agreed to make a civil payment of $400,000 to the United States Treasury to resolve allegations that Exelon violated a prior court order, which adopted conditions on its merger with Constellation, due to "inadvertent" errors which…
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November 12, 2012
PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. has submitted to FERC a filing reflecting the permanent termination of City Power Marketing, L.L.C. as a PJM Member in accordance with Sections 15.1.6(c) and 4.1(c) of the Operating Agreement.
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