March 21, 2012
License Briefs
The Maryland PSC this morning granted HOP Energy, LLC an electric supplier license
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March 21, 2012
Growth in Residential Customers on Competitive Supply Slows at BGE, Pepco
The growth in the number of residential electric customers on competitive supply at Baltimore Gas & Electric and Pepco slowed during January, but increased at Potomac Edison, according to the latest stats from the Maryland PSC.
March 19, 2012
Critical Peak Rebates at BGE, Pepco Will Not be Limited to SOS Customers
Baltimore Gas & Electric and Pepco-Maryland will make their critical peak rebate programs available to all distribution customers within eligible customer classes, not only Standard Offer Service customers, under a consensus program design contained in a Maryland dynamic pricing working group report…
March 16, 2012
PJM Independent Market Monitor Again Cites Inherent Market Power Under Capacity Market Design
Monitoring Analytics, LLC, the Independent Market Monitor (IMM or MMU) for PJM, has released the 2011 State of the Market Report for PJM .
March 15, 2012
Stream Energy to Expand Commercial Service to New States, Territories
Stream Energy announced this morning that it is expanding its commercial service footprint to include businesses in the PPL Electric service area of Pennsylvania.
March 14, 2012
Maryland PSC Open to Short Extension of Date for Termination of Columbia Choice Program
The Maryland PSC deferred consideration of a date for the termination of Columbia Gas' choice program, as several commissioners appeared open to providing for a longer transition to allow the bulk of choice contracts to expire.
March 13, 2012
IDT Energy to Enter Five New States; Customer Growth Slows
IDT Energy continued to experience net customer growth in the three months ended December 31, 2011, but at a much slower pace than seen earlier in the year.
March 12, 2012
License Briefs
Major Energy Electric Services LLC applied for an Illinois alternative retail electric supplier license to serve all customer classes at Commonwealth Edison.
March 12, 2012
Exelon, Constellation Complete Merger After FERC Approval
Exelon Corporation and Constellation Energy have completed their merger, effective today, in the wake of FERC's approval of the transaction on Friday.
March 9, 2012
Staff Supports April End for Columbia Choice Program
Maryland PSC Staff has recommended that the Columbia Gas choice program cease with the April 2012 billing cycle, as proposed by Columbia .
March 8, 2012
FirstEnergy Generation Files for Feasibility Study for 800 MW at Eastlake
FirstEnergy Generation Corp., a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp., has filed an application for a feasibility study with PJM Interconnection (PJM) to install and interconnect to the transmission system approximately 800 megawatts (MW) of new combustion turbine peaking generation at its existing…
March 7, 2012
License Briefs
Green Mountain Energy Receives License in New State
March 2, 2012
Briefly
BGE Enters Castlebridge Energy, Other Suppliers into XML Testing
March 2, 2012
ERCOT Selects Brattle, Author of Highly Criticized Capacity Market Report, for Resource Adequacy Study
ERCOT has awarded the Request for Proposal for a study to examine resource adequacy incentive factors, and factors that influence investment decisions for generation, to the Brattle Group, Inc.
March 1, 2012
FirstEnergy Solutions Forecasts 400% Increase in Direct Retail Sales to Mass Market Customers
FirstEnergy Solutions is forecasting 6 TWh of direct retail sales to mass market customers (excluding government aggregation volumes) in 2012.
February 29, 2012
Briefly
Horizon Power and Light to Restart D.C. Marketing
February 29, 2012
Integrys Energy Services Earnings Lifted by Higher Margins
Integrys Energy Services saw core earnings of $13.5 million for the fourth quarter of 2011, versus $6.9 million a year ago.
February 29, 2012
FirstEnergy Solutions Reports Increased Direct Retail Sales
Increased competitive retail sales directly to large and mass markets customers by FirstEnergy Solutions, net of the impact from changed pricing versus the year-ago, led to a $164 million improvement in commodity margin during the fourth quarter of 2011, FirstEnergy said in reporting earnings.
February 29, 2012
PSC Denies Rehearing on Termination of Columbia Choice Program
The Maryland PSC denied rehearing of its decision to terminate the choice program at Columbia Gas .
February 28, 2012
Maryland PSC Staff Oppose Rehearing of Columbia Gas Choice Program Termination
Staff of the Maryland PSC has recommended that the Commission deny requests for rehearing of the PSC's decision to terminate the Columbia Gas choice program.
February 28, 2012
Maryland PSC Opens Formal Rulemaking on Supplier Online Price Disclosure Requirements
The Maryland PSC has opened a formal rulemaking (RM 46) to address minimum disclosure requirements to govern the obligation of electricity and gas suppliers to post on the internet information regarding services and rates for small commercial and residential gas and electric customers.
February 28, 2012
Maryland OPC Asks PSC to Address Issues Concerning "Commissioned and Technically Uninformed Intermediaries" in Retail Market
The Maryland Office of People's Counsel has asked the Maryland PSC to address several questions, including pending issues regarding whether non-employee agents of licensed suppliers or brokers require their own license (in Case 9245), prior to addressing the electric broker application of Vivint…
February 24, 2012
Briefly
Texas Customers Formally Petition for Advanced Meter Opt-Out Rulemaking
February 23, 2012
License Briefs
Trademark Merchant Energy Seeks Texas REP Certificate
February 21, 2012
Residential Migration to Competitive Supply Up in All Maryland Service Areas
Residential migration to competitive natural gas supply increased during the last quarter of the year at all of Maryland's utilities with residential choice programs, according to the latest stats from the PSC.