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September 30, 2011
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 29, 2011
The New York PSC issued a declaratory ruling yesterday finding that generators are required to obtain the Commission's consent, pursuant to Public Service Law (PSL) §70, to discontinue blackstart service (11-E-0423).
September 29, 2011
The Illinois Power Agency has submitted its proposed default service procurement plan for the period June 2012 through May 2017 which retains the general parameters of past plans for energy requirements, but adds a carve-out for distributed solar and potentially clean coal (ICC Docket 11-0660).
September 27, 2011
StarTex Ranked in Houston Business Journal Fast 100
September 26, 2011
PJM has submitted to FERC a proposal to allow load serving entities, as well as other providers, to commit Price Responsive Demand (PRD) to PJM, with such commitments reducing the capacity obligation sourced through the Reliability Pricing Model auction.
September 20, 2011
Bangor Hydro-Electric informed the Maine PUC that it is, "exploring alternatives regarding the disposal of the energy," from the Rollins Wind Project, after FERC denied BHE's sought waiver to allow BHE transmission function employees to engage in ministerial actions needed to make sales of the…
September 19, 2011
Late Friday, Monitoring Analytics, LLC, filed with FERC as well as the Maryland PSC an updated market power analysis regarding the proposed merger of Constellation Energy and Exelon, but which does not materially alter the PJM independent market monitor's conclusions regarding the merger.
September 16, 2011
FERC yesterday ordered the RTOs to engage in ongoing compliance reviews of market participants' risk management policies, further expanding the breadth of RTOs' power beyond their originally intended functions.
September 16, 2011
The treatment of load forecasting under the Midwest ISO's proposed revisions to its capacity mechanism, "places non-EDC LSEs in a competitively disadvantageous position that makes the tariff provisions unjust, unreasonable and unduly discriminatory," the Retail Energy Supply Association said in a…
September 12, 2011
In a pleading likely to fall on deaf ears at FERC (ER11-4081), the Illinois Commerce Commission expressed, "significant doubts that a centralized capacity market, as proposed by [the Midwest ISO], is necessary for the Midwest."
September 9, 2011
Siding with capacity suppliers against load-serving entities, FERC rejected in part a proposal from the New York ISO to establish a criteria which would be used to evaluate the creation of separate capacity zones in the ICAP market (ER04-449).
September 7, 2011
A non-unanimous stipulation in AEP Ohio's electric security plan proceeding contemplates that, starting June 1, 2015, AEP Ohio would source power for Standard Service Offer load through competitive auctions (11-346-EL-SSO et. al.)
September 7, 2011
EnergyUSA-TPC Seeks Renewal of Ohio Supplier License
September 6, 2011
The lower Zone J capacity pricing in the New York ISO, which the independent market monitor has confirmed is competitive, represents a, "fundamental failure of the marketplace," said Mark Sudbey, CEO of US Power Generating Company, in connection with the announcement that subsidiary Astoria…
September 6, 2011
The District of Columbia PSC has posted electric migration statistics as of July 2011.
September 1, 2011
FERC Orders NYISO to Share Confidential Market Participant Data
August 30, 2011
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 29, 2011
ICEA, RESA Seek Rehearing of ComEd POR Order
August 29, 2011
Customers eligible for the Recharge New York economic development rates should be relieved from paying various monthly distribution riders if they elect to buy their market-based portion of Recharge New York supplies from an ESCO, large customers and ESCOs said in comments to the New York PSC…
August 23, 2011
NRG Texas Power to Pay $35,000 to Resolve Investigation of Ancillaries Obligation
August 22, 2011
In the August 29 edition of the Weekly Standard, published in advance online , author Michael Warren faults New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's energy policy as being "not so conservative," due to the Long-Term Capacity Pilot Program (LCAPP). However, the Weekly Standard either fails to recognize, or…
August 22, 2011
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 4, 2011
The latest complaint from certain capacity suppliers in New York regarding buyer-side market power in the ICAP market amounts to "conspiracy theories" with no factual evidence, the New York ISO said in an answer at FERC (EL11-50).
August 2, 2011
The Midwest ISO told Matters this afternoon that retail suppliers will pay the applicable capacity auction clearing price for any new load acquired as a result of switching under MISO's proposed modifications to its Module E resource adequacy construct.
August 2, 2011
Windstream Corp. entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Paetec Holding Corp in a transaction valued at approximately $2.3 billion. Paetec owns retail supplier U.S. Energy Partners, as well as broker Technology Resource Solutions, Inc. (Paetec Energy)
