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March 31, 2014
Transferring the RPS obligation from retail and Basic Generation Service suppliers to distribution utilities, or implementing long-term solar contracts through the BGS auctions, are two policy options included in a draft New Jersey report concerning volatility in the New Jersey solar market, and…
March 31, 2014
Commonwealth Edison has proposed to change how the Purchased Electricity Adjustment (PEA) is applied.
March 28, 2014
The New Hampshire PUC approved new residential and small commercial customer and large customer default service rates at Liberty Utilities (Granite State Electric) for the period May 1, 2014 through October 31, 2014
March 28, 2014
A partial settlement would continue the use of 24-month contracts for a significant portion of residential default service at Met-Ed, Penelec, Penn Power, and West Penn Power through May 31, 2017.
March 27, 2014
With the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio declining to order the electric utilities to implement POR (see related story today), the Commission's final retail market order contains few substantive reforms to the market.
March 26, 2014
"The energy from Public Service of New Hampshire's power generation facilities during the past winter was produced at a cost that was $115 million less than energy sold through the region's wholesale energy marketplace," PSNH said yesterday.
March 24, 2014
North Shore Gas and Peoples Gas have warned Illinois customers about substantial increases in default service rates projected for April.
March 21, 2014
The Pennsylvania PUC has ordered that Pike County Light & Power electric "customer bills" shall list a one-year average Price to Compare
March 20, 2014
The Maine PUC has set the Standard Offer rates for the large non-residential classes at Central Maine Power and Bangor Hydro Electric for the month of April 2014.
March 20, 2014
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has approved an alternative proposal from AEP Ohio to mitigate the impact of the transition to market-based rates on residential customers at Columbus Southern Power (CSP).
March 20, 2014
Ohio has disclosed the winning bidders of AEP Ohio's energy-only auction for a 10% slice of default service during the period April 1, 2014 through May 31, 2015
March 20, 2014
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, in a rehearing order, adopted an accelerated schedule for the transition to fully auction-sourced Standard Service Offer supplies at Dayton Power & Light.
March 19, 2014
The Michigan PSC set an expedited schedule to consider Consumers Energy Company's request for authority to immediately increase its gas cost recovery (GCR) factor.
March 17, 2014
If you're an independent retail supplier, and particularly one which started after the 2005-07 bloodbath in the retail market, you need to understand one thing, if it's not already apparent: the leading advocates of "competitive" markets -- meaning non-price-regulated generators, most of whom own…
March 14, 2014
The Massachusetts Dept. of Energy Resources wants the basic electric service provided by the utilities to be offered as a "menu" of rate design options
March 13, 2014
In a written order reconsidering PECO's proposal to allow electric Customer Assistance Program (CAP) customers to shop for a competitive supplier, the PUC has directed that PECO maintain the current schedule of publishing the Price to Compare 45 days prior to the effective date.
March 13, 2014
Six of Pennsylvania's seven major electric distribution companies saw a decline in residential shopping over the past week, as migration back to default service prompted by polar vortex rates continues to roll into the migration reports as meter reads are completed.
March 13, 2014
Connecticut's power procurement manager has proposed further changes to the procurement of Standard Service electricity supply.
March 12, 2014
Runaway wholesale electric prices have doomed another attempt to expand electric choice, this time in Pennsylvania -- a state which increasingly looks more and more like New York, Connecticut, and dare we say it, Maryland, thanks to unchecked and uncompetitive wholesale pricing.
March 11, 2014
The next time you see a study by The NorthBridge Group touting a centralized capacity market, or how a capacity market wouldn't cost materially any more than an energy-only market, keep in mind the following testimony from Scott Fisher, Principal with The NorthBridge Group, who was testifying on…
March 11, 2014
Nearly 90% of residential retail electric supplier customers pay more for generation than what customers would have paid under Standard Service, the Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel said in testimony in PURA's electric marketing proceeding.
March 11, 2014
If the Pennsylvania PUC wants more market-reflective default service, as it indicated (but did not order) in its much-hyped end-state retail electric market order, utilities have not gotten the message.
March 7, 2014
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has disclosed the winning bidders in the Dominion East Ohio Standard Choice Offer auction, for SCO service for the 12-month period beginning April 1, 2014.
March 7, 2014
With respect to rate issues, the Pennsylvania PUC denied reconsideration of its order granting PECO electric Customer Assistance Program (CAP) customers eligibility to shop, with no cap on retail supplier rates, and in doing so, PUC Chairman Robert Powelson and Commissioner Pamela Witmer gave an…
March 6, 2014
Pike County Light & Power's residential default service rate for the period starting March 1 is almost 12¢/kWh.
