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Shahid Malik Joins South Jersey Industries Board
South Jersey Industries, whose South Jersey Energy Co. subsidiary continues to expand its retail supply operations (see 11/9 and 8/6), has elected former Strategic Energy CEO Shahid Malik to the board of directors of SJI and South Jersey Energy Co. Malik is currently a vice president in the Energy Business Group of consultant PRTM.

Amigo Energy Offers Online Enrollment to Small Commercial Customers
Amigo Energy has started offering online enrollments to small commercial customers in ERCOT. Previously, online enrollment was limited to residential customers.

Md. Hearing Examiner Finds Timing of Allegheny Warrior Run Reactive Power Filing Prudent
A proposed order from a Maryland hearing examiner would find that Allegheny Power, acted in a reasonable and prudent manner regarding the offering of reactive power from the Warrior Run cogeneration facility (which continues to produce stranded costs), and that no penalty or credit to ratepayers should be directed with respect to its FERC reactive power filing effective July 1, 2008 rather than January 1, 2008. The Office of People's Counsel has argued that Allegheny's failure to ensure that reactive power revenues were available January 1, 2008 (the first date such revenues were available under a change in treatment of the Warrior Run output under which the output is directly sold into the PJM market) violated the 1999 settlement which requires Allegheny to maximize the output of the plant. The hearing examiner agreed with Allegheny and Staff that Allegheny took prudent steps to file the reactive power tariff at FERC as soon as practicable (Case 8797).