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May 15, 2015
The District of Columbia PSC has suspended its review of potential dynamic pricing programs, including potentially making SOS a dynamic pricing program (or adding an optional SOS dynamic pricing rate), citing the uncertainty regarding what compensation, if any, will be available in the wholesale…
April 29, 2015
PECO's time-of-use pricing pilot, which was supplied by an NRG Energy retail supplier, delivered a 6% average load reduction during non-holiday, weekday afternoons from 2 PM to 6 PM in June, July and August 2014, according to a report on the program filed by PECO.
April 2, 2015
FERC has rejected as "premature" PJM's "stop gap" demand response proposal intended to address demand response in the capacity market should the Supreme Court ultimately determine the decision in EPSA that FERC lacks jurisdiction to set compensation for demand response
March 19, 2015
Baltimore Gas & Electric has asked the Maryland PSC to address various issues related to PJM's stop-gap proposal related to reflecting the impact of demand response in the capacity market if courts uphold that demand response cannot be compensated through the capacity market due to a lack of FERC…
March 19, 2015
A committee substitute for Texas HB 489, relating to rules governing smart thermostats, has garnered the support of Texas retail electric providers
February 24, 2015
The six investor-owned New York electric distribution companies have petitioned the New York PSC to approve a utility-offered demand response program to the extent the U.S. Supreme Court rules that FERC (via the RTOs) cannot set compensation for demand response.
January 7, 2015
MP2 Energy saw significant growth in its retail power business during 2014, both in ERCOT and in PJM, the latter of which it entered in earnest last year.
January 5, 2015
N.Y. Staff Schedules Meeting on Creation of New Demand Response Programs
December 23, 2014
The FirstEnergy Ohio utilities have filed what they termed in a news release a "settlement" in their electric security plan proceeding which would set default service procurement for the period, but has become most notable for FirstEnergy's sought provision that would require ratepayer support for…
December 16, 2014
MP2 Energy, LLC would pay $45,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve alleged violations of to P.U.C. SUBST. R. 25.507(d)(6), related to emergency response service, and Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) Protocols § 8.1.3.3.1(1)(b) and (c)…
December 16, 2014
The New York PSC has instituted a proceeding to begin the development and implementation of distribution-level demand response programs and other dynamic load management programs to be implemented prior to the summer of 2015.
December 15, 2014
The New York PSC is "encourag[ing]" utilities and third parties to begin working together to develop potential demonstration projects as part of the Reforming the Energy Vision proceeding.
December 4, 2014
PJM informed stakeholders that its board has authorized the filing of a capacity performance proposal with FERC, though the Board has made several changes to the PJM Staff's proposal, including revisions to the transition period.
December 1, 2014
An updated proposal under which Texas retail electric providers would be reimbursed for providing low-income customers with programmable communicating thermostats (PCTs) and in-home displays (IHDs) would initially limit how many customers for which each REP would be reimbursed.
November 24, 2014
Ziphany, LLC, an affiliate of Glacial Energy included in Glacial's Chapter 11 proceedings, is soliciting bids for its demand response technology platform.
November 11, 2014
Direct Energy formally announced its offering of a new critical peak rebate program in Texas, which was first reported by EnergyChoiceMatters.com last week
November 7, 2014
Direct Energy has formally introduced a critical peak rebate program in Texas called Reduce Your Use Rewards
October 28, 2014
Start-up Grid Energy LLC applied for a Maryland electric broker/aggregator license to serve commercial and industrial customers in all service areas.
October 23, 2014
The legal reasoning used by FirstEnergy in a FERC complaint that seeks to eliminate demand response from participation in the capacity market would also mean that FERC lacks jurisdiction to create and compel participation in capacity markets, the Pennsylvania PUC said in a protest of FirstEnergy's…
October 23, 2014
Granting a complaint from FirstEnergy which seeks to exclude demand response from participation in the PJM capacity market, including re-running, without demand response, the already cleared May 2014 capacity auction, "would create a windfall for existing generators," Direct Energy said in a protest…
October 21, 2014
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. circuit has granted FERC a stay of the court's May decision which found FERC lacked jurisdiction to set compensation for demand response.
October 14, 2014
A final report on retail demand response and dynamic pricing during 2013 prepared for ERCOT Staff has been posted.
October 9, 2014
Champion Energy confirmed that it began a pilot of a critical peak rebate-type program this summer.
October 8, 2014
PJM has issued a "road map" for how demand response could be treated in light of an appeals court holding that demand response compensation, in the energy market, is a "retail" matter and outside of FERC's purview.
October 8, 2014
Comverge and Constellation announced that they have signed an agreement to combine their demand response businesses serving commercial and industrial customers.
