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June 19, 2012
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas and NRG Texas Power, LLC, and its generation affiliates operating in the ERCOT market, have sought Commission approval of a Voluntary Mitigation Plan governing the offering practices that NRG can use when offering its generation resources into the…
June 18, 2012
The Illinois Joint Committee on Administrative Rules has prohibited the filling and adoption of electric consumer protection rules applicable to competitive retail electric suppliers, which had been proposed by the Illinois Commerce Commission.
June 13, 2012
Pegasus Alliance Corporation would pay $15,000 under a settlement with PUCT Staff to resolve allegations that Pegasus Alliance Corporation was not in full compliance with 30 provisions of the Substantive Rules (40476).
June 7, 2012
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) today voted to issue for comment proposed regulations that would create a uniform definition of unaccounted-for-gas (UFG) and level metrics for natural gas distribution system losses for the state's natural gas distribution companies (NGDCs).
June 6, 2012
The Retail Energy Supply Association (RESA) yesterday called, "for important amendments to New Jersey solar energy legislation to ensure all electricity consumers in the state are treated equitably."
May 28, 2012
FERC approved a stipulation and consent agreement between its Office of Enforcement, Vista Energy Marketing, L.P., and Michael P. Whalen, Jr. which resolves Enforcement's investigation under Part 1b of the Commission's regulations, 18 C.F.R. Part 1b, into whether Vista accurately described Whalen's…
May 28, 2012
The District of Columbia PSC has issued an order notifying three retail electric suppliers of non-compliance with D.C. Code Section 34-1433(g)(1), which, during the relevant annual compliance period, prohibited suppliers from using the incineration of municipal solid waste (MSW) to meet more than…
May 25, 2012
The Pennsylvania PUC has granted another electric generation supplier license contingent on a series of additional conditions applicable to the applicant, but a consistent philosophy regarding imposition of such conditions remains elusive.
May 23, 2012
North American Power recently filed with the Maryland PSC its compliance report for the month of March, which lists the number of customers enrolled in Maryland during the month.
May 22, 2012
The Pennsylvania PUC proposed in a secretarial letter delaying two mailings from the electric distribution companies intended to educate customers about electric choice.
May 18, 2012
Nooruddin Investments, LLC d/b/a Discount Power would pay $7,000 under a settlement with PUCT Staff to resolve allegations that Discount Power was not in full compliance with six provisions of the Substantive Rules (40402).
May 9, 2012
Maryland PSC Chairman Douglas Nazarian said that he needs to be assured that the Commission wasn't "duped" in approving the merger of Exelon and Constellation Energy, after the merged company violated market power mitigation conditions contained in the merger order relating to its generating plants.
April 26, 2012
In separate orders, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has denied certain waivers separately requested by Ohio Power, and also Cleveland Electric Illuminating, Ohio Edison and Toledo Edison, concerning the information required to be filed in support of their respective electric security plans.
April 24, 2012
Day-ahead and real-time energy prices in PJM were inflated by at least $141,000 during a two-week period in which mitigation was not applied to several Constellation Energy units as required under a Maryland PSC order, while total excess revenues to Exelon resulting from what the company called an…
April 17, 2012
Staff of the Ontario Energy Board has issued a bulletin pertaining to (i) requirements that apply in the context of "network" or "multi-level" activities; and (ii) the status of internet transactions effected while a salesperson is present, whether occurring in the context of "network" or…
April 16, 2012
FERC revoked the market-based rate authority of 35 "public utilities," including a retail supplier, for what FERC said was failure to file a baseline electronic market-based rate tariff as previously ordered (see prior story) .
April 16, 2012
Viridian Energy has filed with the Maryland PSC its compliance report for the month of March, which lists the number of customers enrolled in Maryland during the month.
April 11, 2012
The Brooklyn Union Gas Company d/b/a National Grid NY has notified East Coast Natural Gas Inc. that East Coast Natural Gas Inc.'s right to serve customers in the Brooklyn Union service territory will be involuntarily discontinued as of the close of business on April 30, 2012.
April 10, 2012
Competitive electric service providers (ESPs) in California will be required to file RPS compliance plans with a 10-year horizon, per an assigned commissioner's ruling from Commissioner Mark Ferron (R. 11-05-005).
April 6, 2012
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported late Thursday that, "Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission investigators on Thursday filed a formal complaint seeking to revoke the license of Glacial Energy of Pennsylvania, Inc. for allegedly omitting information in its 2009 application to be an electric…
March 30, 2012
The Pennsylvania PUC yesterday issued a tentative order which would approve an expansion of Major Energy Services, LLC's natural gas supplier license, but which would also impose certain reporting conditions on Major Energy under the expansion.
March 29, 2012
A group of Independent Electric Generation Suppliers (EGSs) has recommended that the Pennsylvania PUC adopt an anonymous enforcement hotline, and require disgorgement for any violations of the code of conduct governing relations between electric distribution companies (EDCs) and retail suppliers.
March 28, 2012
10K Energy, L.L.C. would pay $20,000 under a settlement with PUCT Staff to resolve allegations that 10K Energy was not in full compliance with 20 provisions of the Substantive Rules (40267).
March 28, 2012
Exelon Energy and FirstEnergy Solutions, in separately filed comments, have protested the Pennsylvania PUC's proposed rule [§ 54.122(3)(v)] that an electric generation supplier, "may not have the same or substantially similar name or fictitious name as the electric distribution company or its…
March 27, 2012
The Ontario Energy Board has revised its cost assessment model to assess the appropriate share of direct and indirect costs to electricity retailers and gas marketers, to be phased in over five years starting April 1, 2013.
