April 19, 2012
Clearview Electric Expanding to Natural Gas
Clearview Electric, Inc. is seeking licenses in several states to act as a retail natural gas supplier.
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April 18, 2012
GDF SUEZ's Think Energy Begins Offering Service to Three New States, Two More States "Coming Soon"
Think Energy, GDF SUEZ Energy Resources' retail supplier focused on serving small business customers, announced this morning that it will expand its market presence to Texas, Pennsylvania, and New York this month.
April 6, 2012
Noble Americas Gas & Power to Purchase Stake in New Jersey Plant
Noble Americas Gas & Power Corp. has entered into an agreement to take a 25% stake in the Eagle Point Cogeneration Facility in New Jersey.
April 3, 2012
North American Power Readies Gas Market Entry in Seven Markets, Seeks Additional License
North American Power has received licenses to sell natural gas at retail in two states, and yesterday applied for its third gas marketer license.
March 23, 2012
KEMA Residential Survey Finds Choice Awareness Outpacing Switch Rates, Cites Market Potential
"[S]ignificant market potential" still exists for retail suppliers to explore in residential power markets across the United States, despite recent increases in residential switching, DNV KEMA Energy & Sustainability said yesterday, based on its second annual Residential Power Choice Survey .
March 23, 2012
License Briefs
Smart Energy, LLC Receives License to Serve Small Volume Customers
March 20, 2012
RESA Says Earlier Start to Higher N.J. RPS Would Create Competitive Advantage for BGS Suppliers
Any increase in the New Jersey solar RPS requirement should come into effect in Energy Year (EY) 2016 so as to not perpetuate the current competitive disadvantage imposed on competitive retail electric suppliers with respect to solar RPS compliance, the Retail Energy Supply Association said in…
March 20, 2012
Residential Migration Growth Jumps at JCP&L
The growth rate in the number of residential electric customers on competitive supply accelerated during February at Jersey Central Power & Light, but decreased at Public Service Electric & Gas, according to the latest data on the BGS auction website.
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 14, 2012
Existing Resources Earning 93% of Capacity Payments in PJM, APPA Says
More than 93 percent of the total revenue paid by customers under the PJM Reliability Pricing Model has gone to the owners of existing power plants, the American Public Power Association said in a recent issue brief .
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 9, 2012
RESA Seeks Review, Enhancements for Long Island Power Authority Choice Program
An audit of the Long Island Power Authority's management and operations should include an investigation of the operational steps and constructive policy actions LIPA should implement to restructure and reinvigorate its moribund "LI Choice" Program, the Retail Energy Supply Association said in…
March 8, 2012
Stream Energy Expands to New Service Area
Stream Energy has expanded its service footprint in New Jersey to now include the Jersey Central Power and Light service area.
March 6, 2012
South Jersey Gas Sees Decline in Residential Customers on Competitive Supply
South Jersey Gas saw a decrease in the number of residential customers on competitive supply from the period October 2011 to January 2012, according to the latest stats form the New Jersey BPU.
March 5, 2012
Briefly
Direct Energy Cites Cross-Sell Potential in Completing Acquisition of Home Warranty of America
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
GenOn Announces 3,100 MW of Generation Deactivations
GenOn Energy, Inc. said today that it expects to deactivate 3,140 MWs of generating capacity in PJM between June 2012 and May 2015 because forecasted returns on investments necessary to comply with environmental regulations are insufficient.
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
Positive Energy Electricity Supply Reports New Jersey Customer Milestone
Positive Energy Electricity Supply LLC, the exclusive marketer for ResCom Energy LLC, announced that on February 24 it reached a milestone of 30,000 customers in New Jersey.
February 27, 2012
PPL Acquiring Combined Cycle Plant from AES
PPL Corporation announced this morning that PPL Generation, LLC, its competitive generation subsidiary, agreed to acquire AES Ironwood, L.L.C. and AES Prescott, L.L.C., which together own and operate the 705-megawatt AES Ironwood combined-cycle natural gas-fired power plant in Lebanon, Pa., from a…
February 24, 2012
PSEG Forecasts Higher Migration to Competitive Supply in N.J.
Customer migration away from Basic Generation Service in New Jersey negatively impacted fourth quarter earnings at PSEG Power by $10 million, parent Public Service Enterprise Group reported yesterday.
February 22, 2012
License Briefs
Utilities Analyses Seeks Licenses in Multiple States
February 21, 2012
Residential Migration Slows in New Jersey
The growth in the number of residential electric customers on competitive supply in New Jersey slowed during the month of January, according to the latest stats on the BGS auction website.
February 13, 2012
AEP: Not Starting "National" Retail Play
AEP's competitive retail supplier will focus on hedging AEP's competitive generation in markets in which the company is already involved and which it understands, AEP CEO Nick Akins said during an analyst conference Friday.