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October 3, 2014
Energy Curtailment Specialists, Inc. would pay $15,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve alleged violation of Section 39.151 (d) of the Public Utility Regulatory Act (PURA); P.U.C. SUBST. R. 25.503(f)(2), related to oversight of wholesale market…
September 23, 2014
In its comments to the New York PSC on a straw proposal in the Reforming the Energy Vision proceeding, Direct Energy offered several novel interpretations of the impact of a Court's order which vacated FERC Order 745, as the Court said that FERC lacked authority to set compensation for demand…
September 22, 2014
Load in PJM is paying $433 million in additional costs due to PJM's load forecast used in the capacity market undercounting the impact of energy efficiency, a report by Brattle prepared for the Sustainable FERC Project concludes.
September 22, 2014
Texas retail electric providers would be reimbursed for providing low-income customers with programmable communicating thermostats (PCTs) and in-home displays (IHDs) under a proposal from a working group addressing the requirement that TDUs provide in-home monitors to low-income customers under…
September 18, 2014
The U.S. Court of Appeal of the D.C. circuit has denied en banc rehearing of its earlier order striking down FERC Order 745, FERC's order which provided that demand response shall be paid full LMP.
September 10, 2014
FERC has accepted without modification ISO New England's 2014-15 winter reliability program, a series of non-market programs and compensation which are said to be needed to assure reliability.
July 29, 2014
Amigo Energy has launched a critical peak rebate program in Texas that includes, for certain customers, an automated response, and which is being promoted through a $3,000 grand prize challenge.
July 28, 2014
Ambit Energy has officially launched a critical peak rebate program in ERCOT called Power Payback
July 16, 2014
GDF SUEZ Energy Resources NA has launched a new suite of energy management and monitoring tools and services called VPower.
July 9, 2014
Maryland is the latest state to seek confidential offer data from the recent 2017/18 PJM Base Residual Auction
June 25, 2014
eCurv, Inc., which describes itself as a privately held technology firm rolling out a patented means to reduce electricity charges for commercial customers, said that it has closed a $2.5 million Series A round of funding led by Constellation Technology Ventures, the venture capital arm of Exelon…
June 6, 2014
PJM has received a request for confidential information from the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio regarding the 2017/2018 Reliability Pricing Model BRA.
June 3, 2014
A retail supplier has launched a new pilot air conditioning cycling program, and is incenting customers to participate by offering a free smart thermostat.
May 27, 2014
FirstEnergy Service Company filed a complaint at FERC requesting that the Commission issue an order requiring the removal of all portions of the PJM tariff allowing or requiring PJM to include demand response as suppliers to PJM's capacity markets, with a refund effective date of May 23, 2014
May 27, 2014
An order initially being hailed by competitive generators concerning demand response should ultimately prove most beneficial to retail suppliers and consumers in reining in FERC's unchecked authority to issue regulations over anything allegedly "affecting" wholesale electric rates.
May 27, 2014
A petition by Raiden Commodities to eliminate the current Small-Fish-Swim-Free rule in the ERCOT market was opposed by a diverse group of stakeholders, and of the publicly available comments at publication time, Raiden's petition had no support from any commenting party.
May 15, 2014
Direct Energy formally announced the offering of Nest Learning Thermostats to its U.S. customers bundled with energy supply plans.
April 28, 2014
Energy Curtailment Specialists, Inc. would pay $20,000 under settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve ECS's alleged violation of P.U.C. SUBST. R. §25.503(f)(2) and Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) Protocol § 8.1.3.3.1(1)(b) by failing to meet the…
April 25, 2014
New York yesterday unveiled an initiative to, "create the power grid of the future and forever change the way consumers buy and use energy."
April 17, 2014
The interpretation of a June 2013 Connecticut statute could triple the cost for retail suppliers to meet Connecticut's Class III RPS.
April 16, 2014
TriEagle Energy announced a strategic alliance with ecobee and Earth Networks, the company behind WeatherBug Home energy efficiency solutions.
February 18, 2014
An intervenor is seeking the introduction of electric choice in a Texas CCN proceeding regarding El Paso Electric's petition to build two additional generating units at its Montana power station.
February 14, 2014
EnerNOC, Inc. announced that it has acquired two European demand response providers.
February 13, 2014
A proposal from demand response providers regarding access to Texas electric customers' account information would compel REPs, "to act as the middleman between the electric utility and any third party for the purpose of allowing the third party access to the customer's proprietary information," a…
February 7, 2014
The District of Columbia PSC has rejected Pepco's dynamic pricing proposal, finding that the proposal requires further review.
