February 14, 2011
The Pennsylvania PUC adopted a motion from Chairman James Cawley to approve as filed, with one modification, PPL Electric Utilities Corp.'s petition for approval to procure a long-term 50 MW block of default supply for residential customers, as provided in its default service procurement plan…
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February 14, 2011
Energetix Seeks to Serve Gas Customers at PECO Energetix applied for an amendment to its Pennsylvania gas supplier license to permit it to serve all customer classes, including residential customers, at PECO. Previously, Energetix had received authority to serve all customer classes in the three UGI…
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February 14, 2011
NextEra Energy Services Pennsylvania LLC has begun offering residential electric service at PECO and PPL Electric Utilities.
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February 11, 2011
The Pennsylvania PUC voted yesterday to issue a proposed rulemaking on marketing and sales practices for electric generation suppliers (EGSs) and natural gas suppliers (NGSs).
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February 11, 2011
Gulf Oil Limited Partnership Receives Connecticut Electric License The Connecticut DPUC granted Gulf Oil Limited Partnership an electric supplier license to serve residential, commercial and industrial customers. As only noted in Matters ( 10/13 ), Gulf Oil Limited Partnership initially plans to…
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February 9, 2011
A settlement among several parties would approve Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania's petition to convert its accounting methodology for gas storage inventory from an annual Last-in, First-out (LIFO) methodology to a weighted average cost of gas (WACOG) methodology with several clarifications…
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February 9, 2011
BlueStar Energy Services Receives Texas REP Certificate The PUCT granted BlueStar Energy Services, Inc. a Texas REP certificate. BlueStar’s application was first reported by Matters (1/7) .
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February 7, 2011
PPL Corp.'s Supply unit reported higher earnings of $281 million for the fourth quarter of 2010 versus $52 million a year ago.
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February 7, 2011
Texas Retail Energy Illinois License Application Limited to Affiliates Texas Retail Energy, LLC's Illinois electric supplier application, first reported in Matters ( 2/4 ), is limited to selling to affiliated Wal-Mart facilities, consistent with its licenses in Texas and New York.
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February 7, 2011
Constellation expects to invest additional marketing dollars over the next few years to expand its NewEnergy retail supplier into new regions and increase the number of mass market customers its serves, Constellation CEO Mayo Shattuck said during an earnings call Friday.
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February 4, 2011
In reporting earnings this morning, Constellation Energy reported that its residential offerings in Maryland and New Jersey have resulted in more than 80,000 customers by year end.
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February 4, 2011
Viridian Energy will begin offering electric service in New York on February 14, the company confirmed yesterday, as it issued a sustainability report .
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February 3, 2011
A recommended decision by a Pennsylvania ALJ would adopt an unopposed stipulation to continue the current spot market based procurement for Pike County Light & Power default service for an additional year, through May 31, 2012 (P-2010-2194652).
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February 3, 2011
Ambit Energy Offering Residential Service at PECO Ambit Energy has started offering residential electric service at PECO through PA Power Switch, with a variable rate currently priced at 8.4¢/kWh. Ambit is also offering a 12-month fixed product, as well as fixed and variable renewable products…
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February 3, 2011
Direct Energy said yesterday that it is looking to expand its residential business "rapidly" in 2011, as it consolidated its U.S. Northeast residential operations in Pittsburgh.
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February 2, 2011
The PJM (P3) Power Providers Group filed a complaint at FERC regarding the current Minimum Offer Price rule in the PJM Reliability Pricing Model market, nakedly claiming it is no longer "just and reasonable" because capacity suppliers stand to lose up to $3 billion annually in easy money as New…
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February 2, 2011
Empiric Marketing & Sales, LLC, which intends to offer prepaid electric generation service in Pennsylvania, has petitioned the Pennsylvania PUC for a declaratory order finding that provisions of 52 Pa Code § 56.17 do not apply to its prepaid service (P-2011-2222777).
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February 2, 2011
TriEagle Energy's expansion outside of ERCOT is driven by the desire to diversify its operations, and due to the saturation of the ERCOT market, Rob Cantrell, TriEagle Senior Vice President of Sales and Chief Marketing Officer, told Matters yesterday.
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February 1, 2011
Retail customers in PJM took another hit yesterday as federal regulators continued to create market designs which will lead to higher capacity prices, this time in approving the main tenets behind two new carve-out demand response products in the Reliability Pricing Model (ER11-2288).
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February 1, 2011
TriEagle Energy has "aggressive plans to expand to other markets in the PJM territory," the retail supplier disclosed in announcing its membership in the Retail Energy Supply Association.
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January 28, 2011
Pa. PUC Approves West Penn Power POR, Supplier Tariff The Pennsylvania PUC approved West Penn Power's (Allegheny) updated supplier coordination tariff, which includes a new POR program. Specific details of the POR program and other revisions under the approved supplier tariff may be found in our…
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January 28, 2011
Reliant Energy Seeks Illinois Electric License Reliant Energy Northeast LLC submitted an application for an Illinois alternative retail electric supplier license yesterday. A copy of Reliant's application was not immediately available.
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January 27, 2011
The Maryland PSC yesterday heard from Staff and North American Power and Gas LLC regarding Staff's complaint against North American Power (see 1/10) , and took the matter under advisement after several hours of testimony.
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January 26, 2011
TES Energy Services Seeks Maryland Broker License TES Energy Services, LP has applied for a Maryland electric broker license. A copy of TES Energy Services' application was not available.
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January 26, 2011
Energy Plus Holdings, LLC will enter the Commonwealth Edison electric market to serve residential customers sometime this year, President and Co-founder Kevin Kleinschmidt told Matters yesterday.
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