November 22, 2010
Columbus Southern Power and Ohio Power have petitioned FERC to alter how competitive retail electric service (CRES) providers in Ohio compensate the AEP Ohio utilities for capacity under the utilities' use of the Fixed Resource Requirement of the Reliability Pricing Model.
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November 18, 2010
ERCOT's board of directors has endorsed a new target reserve margin of 13.75 percent, up from 12.5 percent which has been used since 2002, in ERCOT's reporting of capacity, demand and reserves.
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November 16, 2010
MXenergy Seeking Illinois Electric License MXenergy has submitted an application for an Illinois alternative retail electric supplier license. A copy of MXenergy's application was not immediately available.
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November 8, 2010
Mirant reported adjusted net income of $86 million for the third quarter of 2010, versus $238 million a year ago, on lower realized value of hedges, lower energy gross margins from proprietary trading activities, lower contracted and capacity revenues, and higher operating costs primarily because of…
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October 22, 2010
FERC approved Duke Energy Ohio and Duke Energy Kentucky's plan to exit the Midwest ISO and join PJM and conditionally accepted the Duke companies' proposed Fixed Resource Requirement (FRR) Integration Plan (ER10-2254 et. al.).
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October 15, 2010
The Pennsylvania PUC approved settlements in the 1307(f) rate investigations of UGI Central Penn Gas (R-2010-2172922) and UGI Penn Natural Gas (R-2010-2172928) which provide for the transition to mandatory direct capacity assignments to suppliers
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October 7, 2010
Given Public Service of New Hampshire's current level of migration, PSNH is not proposing any additional supply resources in its integrated resource plan, except for small scale renewable distributed generation resources, if found to be economic (DE 10-261).
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October 6, 2010
Arguing that PJM's Reliability Pricing Model is causing "harm" to Maryland ratepayers, several Maryland consumer advocates and state agencies have urged the PSC to implement a managed portfolio process for ensuring adequate electric supplies for ratepayers, with provisions for long-term contracting…
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October 1, 2010
A recommended decision from a Pennsylvania ALJ would approve a settlement at UGI Penn Natural Gas providing for a transition to mandatory direct assignment of capacity to retail gas suppliers based on peak day requirements, as Gateway Energy Services Corporation moved to intervene in the proceeding…
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September 30, 2010
An initial decision from a FERC ALJ finds that, "[d]espite being afforded every possible opportunity to prove their case - by the Commission as well as the presiding judge - and despite being granted extraordinary latitude to secure the evidence they insisted would demonstrate that respondents…
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September 28, 2010
The New York ISO has filed at FERC proposed tariff revisions to address the "unintentional consequences" -- specifically over-mitigation -- present under previously approved mitigation rules designed to guard against the exercise of buyer-side market power in the In-City ICAP markets.
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