November 19, 2010
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FERC Issues Variable Resource Integration NOPR
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November 10, 2010
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FirstEnergy Solutions Not Signing Opt-Out Aggregation Agreements Until PUC Matter Resolved FirstEnergy Solutions confirmed this morning that it is not signing any opt-out municipal aggregation contracts with Pennsylvania home rule municipalities until the PUC resolves the legal questions of such…
October 29, 2010
North America Power Partners to Pay $500,000, Disgorge Profits, for Allegedly Enrolling ILR Customers Without Authorization, Offering Unavailable Resources
FERC has accepted a settlement which compels North America Power Partners to pay a civil penalty of $500,000 and disgorge $2.2 million, plus interest, in unjust profits, relating to FERC Enforcement Staff's allegations that North America Power Partners engaged in a fraudulent scheme or artifice…
October 29, 2010
FERC Refuses to Order Rebilling for NYSEG/NiMo Metering Errors
Rejecting recommendations from Trial Staff, FERC denied requests from NYSEG to require the New York ISO to rebill certain charges dating back 10 years to correct metering errors from both NYSEG and Niagara Mohawk (EL09-26).
October 28, 2010
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Md. PSC Approves Nov. 1 Start for Standard Electronic Gas Market Transactions at BGE
October 27, 2010
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Ambit Launches Product Aimed at Small Commercial Customers in ERCOT
October 22, 2010
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Columbia Gas Seeks Rehearing of Maryland POR Order, Submits Revised Compliance Plan
October 22, 2010
FERC Clarifies Order Relating to California CHP Procurement Obligation
FERC clarified its decision regarding the California PUC's Combined Heat and Power purchase obligation and associated pricing, currently only applicable to the investor owned utilities, to hold that, "the concept of a multi-tiered avoided cost rate structure is consistent with the avoided cost…
October 22, 2010
FERC Approves Duke Ohio PJM Integration Plan, Dismisses Capacity Price Concerns
FERC approved Duke Energy Ohio and Duke Energy Kentucky's plan to exit the Midwest ISO and join PJM and conditionally accepted the Duke companies' proposed Fixed Resource Requirement (FRR) Integration Plan (ER10-2254 et. al.).
October 22, 2010
FERC "Reforms" RTO Credit Rules, Increases Costs to End Users
Under the guise of reform, FERC issued an order on RTO credit policies which will increase end users' costs for generation service by millions of dollars annually (RM10-13).
October 19, 2010
Constellation Protests SECA Compliance Filing
Constellation Energy has protested the Seams Elimination Charge Adjustment compliance filing (ER10-2283 et. al.) of the PJM transmission owners due to establishment in the compliance filing of SECA sub-zones in the AEP-East zone for "Wolfhills" and "Bristol, Wolfhills" that, "neither appear to have…
October 13, 2010
FERC Opens Section 206 Proceeding on Shell Energy's Market-Based Rate Authority in Central and Southwest Balancing Authority Area
FERC has opened a proceeding pursuant to section 206 of the Federal Power Act to determine whether Shell Energy North America (US), LP's market-based rate authority in the Central and Southwest (CSWS, American Electric Power-West) balancing authority area remains just and reasonable after Shell's…
October 13, 2010
FERC Approves Additional Mitigation Measures Applicable to Rest of State N.Y. Generators Dispatched for Reliability Under Certain Conditions
FERC accepted tariff revisions from the New York ISO that provide for the mitigation of generators in the Rest-of-State region that can exercise market power when they are committed or dispatched to maintain system reliability, which is substantially similar to the mitigation approved for three…
October 11, 2010
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Viridian Seeks to Expand Pa. Electric License
October 8, 2010
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Gexa Offering Free Month of Electricity for Enrollment on 24-Month Wind Plan
October 6, 2010
Maryland Consumer Advocate, State Agencies Urge Long-Term Contracts Under SOS to Mitigate "Harm" from RPM
Arguing that PJM's Reliability Pricing Model is causing "harm" to Maryland ratepayers, several Maryland consumer advocates and state agencies have urged the PSC to implement a managed portfolio process for ensuring adequate electric supplies for ratepayers, with provisions for long-term contracting…
October 4, 2010
CAISO, Parties File Settlement Regarding Assignment of Costs Created by Market Participant Defaults
The California ISO, several California generators, and the state's major investor-owned utilities have filed a settlement at FERC governing the allocation of payments required of market participants to cover defaults in the CAISO market. Several municipal utilities as well as FERC Staff have…
October 4, 2010
PJM Seeks to Remove Certain Facilities from Marginal Loss Calculation
PJM has filed tariff changes at FERC to eliminate from the PJM marginal loss calculation model all lower voltage facilities that PJM does not control or operate for congestion or reliability, as well as generator step-up transformers ("GSU") that are metered on the "high side" that the Market Seller…
October 1, 2010
FERC Finds DTE Energy Trading Impermissibly Charged Transaction Fee in Contract with Detroit Edison
FERC accepted the findings and recommendations of separate audits of DTE Energy Company and affiliates (Docket PA10-12); EDF Inc. and affiliates including EDF Trading (Docket PA10-11); and EIF Management, LLC and affiliates (PA10-10); relating to the filing of electric quarterly reports (EQR) and…
October 1, 2010
Competitive Generators Seek Rehearing of FERC Station Power Order
Several competitive generators and their trade associations sought rehearing of FERC's recent station power order in Docket EL04-130 et. al., claiming that FERC misinterpreted an appeals court decision remanding a station power issue to FERC, and, "pull[ed] the rug out from under market participants…
September 30, 2010
Initial Decision Finds No Manipulation by Importing Capacity Suppliers in ISO-NE
An initial decision from a FERC ALJ finds that, "[d]espite being afforded every possible opportunity to prove their case - by the Commission as well as the presiding judge - and despite being granted extraordinary latitude to secure the evidence they insisted would demonstrate that respondents…
September 28, 2010
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PUCT Staff Seeks Revocation of TexRep6, Vantage Power Services Certificates
September 28, 2010
NYSEG Notes Consequences from Delay on Metering Error Petition
New York State Electric & Gas Corporation informed FERC of several considerations in favor of action on a petition relating to NYSEG and Niagara Mohawk metering errors which prompted a partial settlement which has been sitting at the Commission for about a year, in Docket EL09-26. NYSEG stopped…
September 28, 2010
NYISO Files to Correct Over-mitigation Contained in Current Buyer-Side ICAP Market Power Rules
The New York ISO has filed at FERC proposed tariff revisions to address the "unintentional consequences" -- specifically over-mitigation -- present under previously approved mitigation rules designed to guard against the exercise of buyer-side market power in the In-City ICAP markets.