License Briefs

Nordic Energy Services Seeks to Serve All Illinois Electric Customers, Expand to Additional Territories
Nordic Energy Services, LLC applied at the Illinois Commerce Commission to amend its alternative retail electric supplier license to serve all customer classes, serve additional territories, and provide single-billing services. A copy of the application was not immediately available. However, Nordic Energy Services' current license is limited to non-residential customers with annual usage in excess of 15,000 kWh at ComEd, so the additional territory under the application would presumably include, at least, Ameren.

Kansas Energy Seeks Ohio Gas License
Kansas Energy, LLC applied for an Ohio natural gas supplier license to serve all customer classes, including residential customers, in all service areas. Kansas Energy buys and sells physical gas in all producing regions of the United States, moving on average 250,000 - 350,000 MCF per day. Since 2002, Kansas Energy LLC has operated in wholesale marketing & trading, serving natural gas producers, independent power producers, utilities, industrial users, and other energy wholesalers. Among those leading Kansas Energy's expansion into retail choice is Randy Bitsky, who joined Kansas Energy as Vice President of Origination earlier this year after several years in supply and similar roles at Constellation Energy Group, where Bitsky worked in the Ohio, Maryland, California, and Texas choice markets. Additionally, Jay Jordan will serve as a senior trader for Kansas Energy. Jordan was most recently a trader at Integrys Energy Services.

Maine PUC Grants Freedom Energy Logistics Electric Supplier License Limited to BHE Pilot
The Maine PUC granted Freedom Energy Logistics, LLC a competitive electricity provider license limited to serving residential customers as part of the Bangor Hydro-Electric hourly priced rate trial, should Freedom Energy Logistics be selected as a supplier for the trial (see 5/18). The PUC granted Freedom Energy Logistics' request for reduced security in the amount of $14,700, versus the standard $100,000, on the condition that the license is limited to the customers served under the BHE rate trial (which is to be 50 customers per supplier). The $14,700 figure represents 10% of Freedom Energy Logistics' expected revenue from 50 residential customers under the six-month trial, which would be the full extent of its annual revenue as a Maine retail supplier.

Ameresco Files for Broker Licenses in Nearly a Dozen States
Ameresco, Inc. has filed broker applications to serve non-residential customers in the District of Columbia (electric and gas), Maryland (electric and gas), Illinois (electric), and Ohio (electric). Ameresco said that it is also in the process of becoming licensed in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Delaware, and previously received its Maine electric broker license and registered as a New Hampshire electric and gas aggregator (12/15). Ameresco, which offers various energy management and infrastructure services to end users, said that it is moving towards a supplier paid fee business model for its procurement consulting.