July 12, 2016
AEP Texas Central filed a further interim report concerning the program under which Texas retail electric providers are reimbursed for providing no-cost programmable communicating thermostats (PCT) and in-home displays (IHD) to eligible low-income customers.
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July 11, 2016
AEP Texas Central and AEP Texas North submitted an update on the number of customers taking non-standard metering service (opting out of a communicating AMS)
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July 5, 2016
Texas-New Mexico Power Company has filed at the Public Utility Commission of Texas to reduce certain discretionary service charges applicable to retail electric providers as a result of its AMS deployment.
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July 1, 2016
Oncor and CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric filed updates concerning the program under which Texas retail electric providers are reimbursed for providing no-cost programmable communicating thermostats (PCT) and in-home displays (IHD) to eligible low-income customers.
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June 30, 2016
The Public Utility Commission of Texas yesterday maintained an abatement of the proceeding reviewing Sharyland Utilities' proposed advanced meter deployment plan.
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June 30, 2016
Staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio have filed testimony opposing the FirstEnergy Ohio utilities' modified Retail Rate Stability Rider (RRS), and have instead proposed that the FirstEnergy Ohio utilities be authorized to collect a new Distribution Modernization Rider
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June 27, 2016
Texas retail electric providers, Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, and the Texas Office of Public Utility Counsel all opposed, in separate comments, Sharyland Utilities' petition to unabate its AMS deployment docket, and to move forward with its deployment plan and non-AMS surcharge…
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June 20, 2016
Sharyland Utilities has petitioned the Public Utility Commission of Texas to reinstate a proceeding reviewing the utility's proposed advanced metering deployment plan, with such reinstatement limited to issues other than the AMS surcharge, with the AMS surcharge severed into a separate docket
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June 6, 2016
AEP Texas Central and AEP Texas North reported updated data concerning the program under which Texas retail electric providers are reimbursed for providing no-cost programmable communicating thermostats (PCT) and in-home displays (IHD) to eligible low-income customers.
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June 3, 2016
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas said that Staff, ERCOT, the Joint TDUs, the REP Coalition, and the Office of Public Utility Counsel (OPUC) have reached an agreement on the future of the Smart Meter Texas (SMT) portal
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May 24, 2016
AEP Texas Central reported that it has exhausted 75% of funds designated to reimburse retail electric providers for providing free programmable communicating thermostats and in-home displays (collectively, in-home devices) to low-income customers
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May 20, 2016
The Public Utility Commission of Texas yesterday abated a case considering Sharyland Utilities' proposed advanced metering deployment plan.
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May 13, 2016
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas filed an update regarding the status of funds designated to reimburse retail electric providers for providing free programmable communicating thermostats (PCTs) and in-home displays (IHDs) to low-income customers
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April 21, 2016
Given the passage of time, a new Pepco billing system, and its decision to resume consideration of dynamic pricing at Pepco (click here for story) , the District of Columbia PSC has sought supplemental comments regarding retail supplier access to AMI Data
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April 21, 2016
The New York PSC adopted an order implementing guidance for the filing of utilities' distributed system implementation plan, part of the PSC's Reforming the Energy Vision proceeding, which, among other things, require utilities to meet with ESCOs on AMI customer data access
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April 14, 2016
The District of Columbia PSC is resuming a review of dynamic pricing, including potential for SOS, at Pepco.
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April 8, 2016
A stipulation among several parties would permit AEP Ohio to proceed with phase 2 of its gridSMART program, which would include the deployment of approximately 894,000 AMI meters, and would also require steps to permit the billing of Time of Use rates by retail suppliers, with utility-offered TOU…
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April 5, 2016
The New Hampshire PUC will review the rate design for default service customers under a working group process to consider a variety of grid modernization efforts.
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April 4, 2016
If responsibility of the Smart Meter Texas portal is transferred to ERCOT, the Public Utility Commission of Texas, "must establish a reasonable path to ERCOT Market Participant status for all interested Third Parties, where such Market Participant status confers the same voting rights and…
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March 18, 2016
The New York PSC has approved the territory-wide deployment of advanced meters for electric and natural gas customers at Consolidated Edison, subject to a cap on capital expenditures of $1.285 billion
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March 3, 2016
Verde Energy USA Texas, LLC filed a notice of intent with the Public Utility Commission of Texas to provide prepaid service.
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March 2, 2016
A Maryland working group has filed a report on retail electric supplier access to data from smart meters
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January 21, 2016
A proposal for decision from two Texas ALJs would approve the advance metering deployment plan of Sharyland Utilities, denying the requests from certain parties to withhold approval pending the outcome of the Oncor change-in-control proceeding.
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January 4, 2016
Consolidated Edison has filed a new plan to expand mandatory hourly priced default service to customers with demands between 300 kWh and 500 kW which would include a later start date, and longer implementation timeline, compared to an earlier proposal.
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December 31, 2015
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC filed an updated report, with data as of October 31, on the program under which Texas retail electric providers are reimbursed for providing no-cost programmable communicating thermostats (PCT) and in-home displays (IHD) to eligible low-income customers.
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