July 27, 2018
CPower Expanding To Canada, Names Exec To Lead Effort
CPower Energy Management announced the appointment of Brad Widdup as Director and General Manager to lead its expansion into the Canadian demand-side energy management markets.
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July 10, 2018
Retail Supplier To Be Among Partners In New Energy Savings As A Service Solution For Pittsburgh
BOSS Controls, an IoT energy management company, announced that it has received the intent to award contract from the City of Pittsburgh to deploy a fully integrated Energy Savings as a Service initiative across approximately 100 City buildings.
July 9, 2018
Texas Retail Provider Says Eliminating HAN Functionality Would Stifle Innovative Products, Real-Time Billing, Controllable Load
GridPlus, a start-up retail electric provider newly certificated in Texas (see story here) , has opposed a motion for rehearing filed by the joint Texas utilities concerning revisions to Smart Meter Texas (SMT), as GridPlus said the elimination of home area network (HAN) functionality would stifle…
July 6, 2018
New York DPS Staff Advances ConEd/O&R Smart Home Automation & Supply Pricing Demonstration Project, Utilities May Proceed With Filing Detailed Implementation Plan
Includes Unique Supply Pricing Mechanisms Versus Standard Default Service
Staff of the New York Department of Public Service have found that a proposed Smart Home Rate REV Demonstration Project filed by Consolidated Edison and Orange and Rockland, for electricity customers, complies with a PSC order on "smart home" rates as well as REV objectives, and directed that the…
June 5, 2018
Metering, Customer Data Company Seeks Electric Generation Supplier License
Itron, Inc. applied for a Pennsylvania Electric Generation Supplier ("EGS") license
April 18, 2018
Texas QSE To Pay $22,500 Under Settlement With PUCT Staff
Calpine Power Management LLC (QCALP) would pay $22,500 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve Commission Staff's investigation of QCALP for alleged violations of the Public Utility Regulatory Act § 39.151(d) (PURA) and 16 Texas Administrative Code (TAC) §§…
April 17, 2018
Company Paying Residential Customers For Peak-Time Reductions Raises $8.5M In Funding, Says Will Use Capital To Expand To Texas, New York
OhmConnect, which currently pays California residential customers for electricity usage reductions in response to alerts, announced that it has raised $8.5M in a Series B funding round, led by Mike Maples of Floodgate, along with Jennifer Fonstad of Aspect Ventures, Josh Cohen of City Light Capital…
February 26, 2018
FERC Orders Technical Conference On Seasonal Resource Participation Under PJM Capacity Performance, Declines To Dismiss Complaint Filed By Retail Supplier
FERC has directed Commission staff to convene a technical conference to explore issues raised in two complaints against PJM's transition to a 100% "capacity performance" product in its capacity market and the methodology by which load-serving entities’ peak-shaving actions are reflected in capacity…
January 29, 2018
Affiliate Of Retail Supplier Sells Utility Solutions Division
ENGIE Insight (formerly Ecova) today announced it has reached an agreement to sell its utility solutions division to CLEAResult.
January 23, 2018
Texas Retail Providers: Market Changes Sought By Third-Party Demand Response Providers Would "Significantly Disrupt" Retail Market, Interfere With The Rep-Customer Relationship
SPEER Recommends Approach Which Necessitates Uplift To Market
Changes sought by non-LSE curtailment service providers to provide new avenues for third party demand response providers to participate in the ERCOT market, "would significantly disrupt the competitive retail market," the Retail Electric Provider Group (REP Group) and the Texas Competitive Power…
December 13, 2017
Texas PUC Staff Seek Comment On Barriers To Load Resource Participation In ERCOT Market; Ask About Relationship Between Retail Providers, Load Resources
Ask About Status Of LMP-G Compensation Recommended In Stakeholder Process
Staff of the Texas PUC issued a series of question for comment concerning barriers to participation by load resources in the ERCOT energy and ancillary service markets
December 5, 2017
CPower Names New VP For ERCOT Region
CPower Energy Management has appointed Joe Hayden to its Texas-based ERCOT sales and fulfillment teams as Vice President and General Manager
November 3, 2017
Direct Energy Parent Acquires Leading Demand Response Aggregator, Will Leverage For North American DR Growth
Centrica plc has acquired REstore NV, which Centrica described as, "Europe’s leading demand response aggregator," for €70 million (£62 million) in cash.
October 27, 2017
Calif. PUC Adopts Decision Allowing Direct Access, CCA Customers To Bypass Costs Of Utility-Offered Demand Response Programs, If Their Competitive LSE Offers Similar Program
The California PUC adopted a decision which allows customers of direct access providers and community choice aggregators to avoid paying the tariffed rates used to recover the costs of discrete utility-offered demand response (DR) programs, if the customer's competitive LSE offers a DR program…
October 23, 2017
Energy Manager-Broker, DR Provider Closes On $10 Million Investment Funding
Voltus, Inc. announced today that it has closed on a $10.1 million investment from Prelude Ventures and a family office represented by Energy Innovation.
October 3, 2017
SPEER Again Pushes To Allow Retail Customers In ERCOT To Participate In Energy Market (DR) Independent Of Retail Provider
In comments on the Hogan-Pope whitepaper on price formation issues in ERCOT's energy market, the South-central Partnership for Energy Efficiency as a Resource (SPEER) again advocated for allowing demand response providers in ERCOT to be able to participate in the market without taking on the…
June 23, 2017
Utility Holding Company, Parent of Retail Supplier To Acquire EnerNOC
EnerNOC, Inc. has entered into an agreement to be acquired by the Enel Group, a multinational power utility and integrated electricity and gas operator with operations in over 30 countries across five continents with a managed capacity of approximately 85 GW and more than 65 million business and…
June 9, 2017
Texas QSE Would Pay $40,000 Under Settlement With Texas PUC Staff
Viridity Energy, Inc. would pay $40,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve alleged violations of Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) Protocols § 8.1.3.3.1, regarding suspension of qualification of non-weather-sensitive Emergency Response…
April 12, 2017
New York PSC Staff Whitepaper Proposes Expanded Oversight of Distributed Energy Resource Providers
Certain ESCO Demand Response Sales Would Be Subject To New Proposed Rules
Staff of the New York Department of Public Service have issued a whitepaper proposing expanded PSC oversight of distributed energy resource suppliers (DERS)
March 15, 2017
Texas PUC Executive Director Issues Notice Of Violation To Market Participant, PUC Staff Seeks $50,000 Fine
The Executive Director of the Public Utility Commission of Texas has issued a Notice Of Violation (NOV) to Viridity Energy, Inc. which alleges Viridity violated 16 TAC §§ 25.503(f)(2); and ERCOT Protocols § 8.1.3.3.1, regarding suspension of qualification of non-weather-sensitive Emergency Response…
March 10, 2017
Texas PUC To Drop Proposed Use of ERS Resources For Local Relief In Final Rule
During an open meeting yesterday, Texas PUC Commissioners agreed that a final order revising the Emergency Response Service (ERS) rule should omit language that would allow ERS resources to be used to relieve local transmission congestion or emergencies, with Commissioner Kenneth Anderson stating…
January 6, 2017
Demand Response Alliance Says New Reports Show Moving To 100% Capacity Performance In PJM Will Waste Billions Of Consumer Dollars Without Benefit (Files FERC Complaint)
Citing new analyses prepared by PJM, the Advanced Energy Management Alliance said that the transition to a 100% capacity performance procurement as scheduled in the May 2017 PJM Base Residual Auction is not just and reasonable, as the Alliance filed a complaint at FERC requesting that FERC order…
January 4, 2017
Oncor Exhausts Funds For REP Low-Income Smart Energy Device Reimbursement Program
Oncor reported that all of the funds have been exhausted under the program through which retail electric providers were reimbursed for providing free programmable communicating thermostats and in-home displays (collectively, in-home devices) to low-income customers
January 4, 2017
Ormat To Acquire Viridity Energy Assets, Expand Into Demand Response, Storage
Geothermal and renewable energy developer Ormat Technologies, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the business and assets of Viridity Energy, Inc., a privately held company specializing in demand response, energy management and energy…
November 14, 2016
Massachusetts Utility Seeks To Offer Customers Demand Response, Solar Storage Solutions
Fitchburg Gas & Electric (Unitil) has petitioned the Massachusetts DPU for approval to offer customers via demonstration products a storage system for customers with solar and other demand response offerings.