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July 18, 2011
Some 26,000 requests for direct access were rejected in California's Phase III of the process to implement the expanded direct access cap, according to a PUC Staff report detailing results of the Year 2 and Year 3 Notice of Intent periods (R.07-05-025.).
July 15, 2011
Michigan Gas Utilities Corporation has revised its earlier testimony and is now only "contemplating" a moratorium on choice enrollments, but it has made no statement regarding whether, after such contemplation is complete, it believes it can implement any resulting moratorium without specific PSC…
July 14, 2011
Sharyland Utilities, L.P. has proposed expanding retail choice to all of its service areas in Texas effective January 1, 2014, which would expand customer choice to over 44,000 customers who currently buy electric supply from Sharyland (Docket 39592).
July 11, 2011
The PUCT approved without modification a stipulation among Sharyland Utilities, PUCT Staff, and other parties to move Sharyland's Stanton and Colorado City load from the Southwest Power Pool to ERCOT, potentially allowing for the introduction of retail choice (39070).
July 8, 2011
Michigan Gas Utilities Corporation may only stop accepting new choice enrollments, "after obtaining Commission approval to change its program and tariff," Michigan PSC Staff argued in a filing yesterday (Case No. U-16481).
July 7, 2011
A proposed settlement in several consolidated rate proceedings concerning Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania would expand the availability of choice service to small commercial customers, reduce cash-out penalties, and make other administrative changes aimed at enhancing the competitive retail market…
July 4, 2011
A California ALJ has granted a motion from several direct access parties, and directed the Energy Division to file a status report on the implementation of the direct access phase-in process (R. 07-05-025).
June 28, 2011
A newly amended California bill would expand the current direct access load cap.
June 24, 2011
Retail suppliers and Columbia Gas of Maryland were not able to reach consensus on cost recovery issues which could lead to the elimination of the small volume choice program.
June 16, 2011
Nearly 300 GWh of direct access load has opened up at Southern California Edison, the utility has informed customers, allowing some customers to switch prior to Phase 3 of the expansion of direct access.
June 14, 2011
Consumers Energy is seeking to reinstate the Electric Choice Incentive Mechanism should the Michigan legislature raise the electric choice cap above 10%.
June 14, 2011
Sharyland Utilities, PUCT Staff, and other parties have filed an unopposed stipulation which would move Sharyland's Stanton and Colorado City load from the Southwest Power Pool to ERCOT, potentially allowing for the introduction of retail choice (39070).
June 7, 2011
The Maryland PSC has initiated administrative docket PC25 for the purpose of convening a Consumer Education on Customer Choice Workgroup, as required by recent legislation.
June 1, 2011
The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission approved without modification a settlement under which retail gas choice will be expanded to customers at the former Kokomo Gas and Fuel and the Northern Indiana Fuel and Light Company Inc. territories, which are being merged into NIPSCO (Cause No. 43941 et…
May 30, 2011
The Texas legislature has enrolled and sent to the governor SB 1910, which postpones the transition to competition at El Paso Electric.
May 20, 2011
The Pennsylvania PUC adopted, without modification, an initial decision approving the sale of T.W. Phillips Gas and Oil Co. to a subsidiary of Steel River Infrastructure Fund North America.
May 18, 2011
The Pennsylvania PUC should abate the customer referral mailer for residential customers at Met-Ed and Penelec while moving forward with the referral program for small businesses, Direct Energy Services said in comments to the PUC.
April 29, 2011
The National Center for Policy Analysis, a free-market think-tank, has published a policy report on retail electric restructuring.
April 27, 2011
The Illinois Commerce Commission will likely need to "work through" several issues related to opt-out municipal electric aggregation, ICC Chairman Doug Scott said in addressing the National Energy Marketers Association Restructuring Conference.
April 27, 2011
The term "higher costs" is one of the two most prevalent concepts that Americans associate with "energy deregulation," according to a new poll by EcoAlign, which is a unit of the Distributed Energy Financial Group, DEFG LLC.
April 26, 2011
Changing the treatment of uncollectibles at Columbia Gas of Maryland from a Purchase of Receivables program to the proration of partial payments appears to be the best option for addressing choice implementation costs at Columbia, the Office of People's Counsel said in comments.
April 22, 2011
Termination of Columbia Gas of Maryland's choice program may be short sighted, Maryland PSC Staff said in comments on Columbia's recommendation to end the choice program.
April 15, 2011
Edwards Air Force Base has remained a bundled service customer of Southern California Edison despite purchasing bulk energy supply from various sources, including the Western Area Power Administration, SCE said in reply to a petition from Edwards seeking to include its load under the direct access…
March 7, 2011
Retail gas suppliers could begin serving customers in what are currently the Kokomo Gas and Fuel and the Northern Indiana Fuel and Light Company Inc. territories in Indiana within two months as the operating companies are merged into affiliate Northern Indiana Public Service Company and opened to…
March 2, 2011
A consultant's "preferred" method of transferring Sharyland's Stanton and Colorado City divisions from the Southwest Power Pool to ERCOT is not viable, but two other alternatives which contemplate a complete transfer of the divisions into ERCOT would still benefit customers, Sharyland said in…
