February 1, 2012
Detroit Edison Files Final Electric Choice Cap for 2012
Detroit Edison has filed its final electric choice cap for the year 2012 with the Michigan PSC.
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January 27, 2012
Reservation Charge Approved at Michigan Gas Utilities
The Michigan PSC has approved a reservation charge at Michigan Gas Utilities Corporation which will allocate to choice customers certain costs related to the Supplier of Last Resort function (U-16481).
January 13, 2012
License Briefs
Vista Energy Marketing Seeks New Supplier License
January 5, 2012
Consumers Energy Files 2012 Initial Choice Cap
Consumers Energy has filed its initial electric choice cap for 2012.
January 5, 2012
Detroit Edison Files 2012 Initial Choice Cap
Detroit Edison has filed its initial electric choice cap for 2012.
January 4, 2012
Michigan Gas Utilities Proposes New Reservation Charge, Expects "Saturation" of Choice in 2012
Michigan Gas Utilities Corporation has proposed a new level for the Reservation Charge applicable to competitive suppliers, as well as an annual true-up of the Reservation Charge revenues with actual pipeline demand, supply, and reservation costs, in an application to implement a gas cost recovery…
December 26, 2011
Energy Services Providers, Inc. Reports Customer Count by Utility in New License Application
Energy Services Providers, Inc., d/b/a, Ohio Gas &. Electric, has applied for an Ohio electric supplier license to serve all customer classes in all service areas.
December 23, 2011
License Briefs
North American Power Seeks Texas REP Certificate
December 15, 2011
License Briefs
Santanna Energy Services Seeks Electric Supplier License
December 5, 2011
Consumers Energy to Pursue $1.6 Billion in Environmental Upgrades at Generation, Allocation to Choice Customers Possible
Consumers Energy has announced the cancellation of a proposed clean coal plant project near Bay City and the anticipated suspension of operation of seven smaller coal-fired units in 2015.
December 2, 2011
License Briefs
AEP Retail Energy Partners Seeks Michigan Electric License
November 29, 2011
My Choice Energy Launches Service at Duke Energy Ohio
My Choice Energy has begun offering natural gas service at Duke Energy Ohio, with a product listed on PUCO's apples to apples chart.
November 23, 2011
Proposed Order Would Impose Reservation Charge on Choice Customers at Michigan Gas Utilities
A proposed order from a Michigan ALJ would conclude that Michigan Gas Utilities Corporation's proposed level for a reservation charge applicable to choice customers, "is the simplest and fairest method to allocate the cost of providing reliable service to each customer class."
November 22, 2011
SEMCO Energy Gas Warns Customers of "Possible Deceptive Marketing" by Gas Suppliers
SEMCO Energy Gas Company yesterday alerted customers of what it called, "possible deceptive marketing tactics" targeting residential and business gas customers in its service areas.
November 22, 2011
License Briefs
Lakeshore Energy Services Seeks Michigan Electric License
November 9, 2011
Consumers Energy's Russell Sees No Future for Choice Cap Expansion Legislation
CMS Energy and Consumers Energy President and CEO John Russell does not expect legislation to raise Michigan's electric choice cap to gain any traction.
November 4, 2011
CenterPoint Energy Services Studying Mass Market Expansion in East, Midwest Markets
CenterPoint Energy Services had been studying the expansion of its retail natural gas supply business to small volume customers prior to its purchase of Asgard Energy, and the purchase will give CenterPoint additional experience in serving small volume customers as it weighs expanding to the mass…
November 2, 2011
FirstEnergy Solutions Growth in Direct Retail Sales Continues
Continuing the pace seen in the second quarter of 2011, direct retail sales by FirstEnergy Solutions in the third quarter of 2011 increased by two-thirds versus the year-ago quarter, FirstEnergy Corp. disclosed yesterday in reporting earnings.
November 1, 2011
License Briefs
Start-up Ardent Natural Gas Seeks Michigan License
October 21, 2011
Michigan PSC: Choice Customers Must Help Shoulder Burden of Environmental Compliance, Other Costs of Utility Generation
Electric choice customers in Michigan, "must be expected to help shoulder the burden" of certain utility generation costs for assets, "that must stand ready to serve Choice customers again," the Michigan PSC said in an order in Detroit Edison's rate case (U-16472).
October 17, 2011
MISO Says It Can't Require PLC Method of Capacity Allocation to Retail Suppliers
The Midwest ISO filed an answer at FERC attempting to justify its capacity cost allocation method for states with retail choice, but its arguments were strained or simply puzzling.
October 5, 2011
Integrys Energy Services, Direct Energy Protest SECA Assignment Filing by Midwest TOs
A filing from the Midwest ISO Transmission Owners which purports to identify replacement suppliers for CMS Energy Resource Management Company load, for purposes of assigning Seams Elimination Charge Adjustment costs after FERC ruled that CMS was not responsible for such load, "is simply inadequate…
September 30, 2011
License Briefs
Interstate Gas Supply Seeks Ohio Electric License
September 27, 2011
Michigan Survey Shows Support for Electric Choice
Three-fourths of Michigan residents support ending the electric choice cap in Michigan, the Customer Choice Coalition and Energy Choice Now said yesterday,
September 16, 2011
MISO Capacity Load Forecasting Proposal Harms Retail Suppliers, RESA Says
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…