May 25, 2012
The Michigan PSC will establish a state compensation mechanism governing the charges paid by retail electric suppliers for capacity provided by Indiana Michigan Power Company to retail suppliers under I&M's Fixed Resource Requirement (Case No. U-17032).
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May 23, 2012
Xoom Energy has recently begun offering electric and/or natural gas service to residential customers in several states.
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May 8, 2012
BlueStar Energy Services, Inc. d/b/a BlueStar Energy Solutions is expanding to retail natural gas service.
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May 2, 2012
Increased competitive retail sales directly to large and mass market customers by FirstEnergy Solutions, net of the impact from changed pricing versus the year-ago, led to a $117 million improvement in commodity margin during the first quarter of 2012, FirstEnergy said in reporting earnings.
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May 1, 2012
FERC accepted for filing but suspended for five months the formula capacity rate filed rate by Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) Company, an AEP company, that would be charged to retail suppliers taking capacity under I&M's Fixed Resource Requirement plan, as FERC's preliminary analysis, "indicates that…
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April 26, 2012
Suburban Propane Partners, L.P., which markets electricity and natural gas through subsidiary Agway Energy Services, has reached a definitive agreement with Inergy, L.P. and various affiliates to acquire the sole membership interest in Inergy Propane, LLC, including certain wholly-owned subsidiaries…
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April 19, 2012
Certain customers at Indiana Michigan Power Company (I&M), an AEP company, intend to take electric service from competitive suppliers in the "near future," the Michigan PSC has been informed.
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April 18, 2012
The Michigan PSC authorized Michigan Consolidated Gas Company to implement, for the 12-month period from April 1, 2011 through March 31, 2012, a base gas cost recovery factor of $5.89 per thousand cubic feet.
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April 9, 2012
Champion Energy Receives License as Natural Gas Supplier
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April 5, 2012
Glacial Energy has begun offering residential electricity service in Michigan.
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April 3, 2012
A proposed decision in Consumers Energy's electric rate case would adopt a revenue decoupling mechanism (RDM) which differentiates between power supply and distribution revenues, and the draft would also decline to re-introduce a choice incentive mechanism at this time (U-16794).
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March 22, 2012
Indiana Michigan Power Company (I&M), an AEP company, has sought FERC approval to charge a capacity rate other than the Reliability Pricing Model clearing price for capacity it provides to retail suppliers as the Fixed Resource Requirement entity (ER12-1173).
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March 21, 2012
A bill has been introduced into the Michigan House, with companion legislation to be filed in the Senate, to raise Michigan's electric choice cap.
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March 9, 2012
Start-up Ardent Natural Gas Receives License
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March 5, 2012
Dillon Energy Services, Inc. applied for a Michigan alternative natural gas supplier license.
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March 1, 2012
FirstEnergy Solutions is forecasting 6 TWh of direct retail sales to mass market customers (excluding government aggregation volumes) in 2012.
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February 29, 2012
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.
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February 24, 2012
John Russell, president and chief executive officer of CMS Energy and subsidiary Consumers Energy, told investors yesterday that there is "no interest" from Gov. Rick Snyder in taking on energy legislation to change PA 286 which passed in 2008, which, among other things, instituted a 10% cap on…
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February 22, 2012
Gerard Anderson, DTE Energy's chairman, president and CEO, said during an earnings call last week that he, "feel[s] good about the political climate," concerning the potential to expand the current 10% electric choice cap.
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February 10, 2012
Direct Energy Business announced that it will begin providing competitive electricity supply services to commercial and industrial customers in the Consumers Energy service territory of south central Michigan.
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February 8, 2012
CMS Energy, parent of Consumers Energy, told investors yesterday that it is "pretty comfortable" that there will be no change in the current electric retail open access cap in Michigan in the near term.
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February 2, 2012
PUCO Approves New Retail Price Adjustment at Vectren
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February 2, 2012
The Michigan PSC has posted its annual report on retail electric choice, which includes the load served by each alternative supplier in 2011.
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February 1, 2012
Marking its 15th year of service, the National Energy Marketers Association recently met in executive session and adopted policy priorities for 2012.
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February 1, 2012
Consumers Energy has filed its final electric choice cap for the year 2012 with the Michigan PSC.
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