November 7, 2011
FERC accepted, subject to additional compliance filings and creation of an interim measure, PJM's proposal that, for a load reduction to be recognized as having satisfied its capacity commitment, the load reduction must result in a metered load that is less than the customer's Peak Load Contribution…
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October 26, 2011
Entrance Software Offers Mobile App for CORE Customer Acquisition, Management Solution
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October 18, 2011
EnergyConnect, Inc., and EnerNOC, Inc., have asked FERC to make retail suppliers and other load serving entities pay for capacity not needed due to Price Responsive Demand (PRD) in PJM, by requiring PJM to provide PRD capacity credits to the PRD providers, rather than the LSEs who are obligated to…
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October 17, 2011
Electric vehicle service providers and electric vehicle charging stations should be regulated as electricity suppliers under PUA §1-101(j)(1)(ii), barring a legislative exemption in the General Assembly's 2012 legislative session, Maryland PSC Staff said in comments to the PSC (9261).
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October 6, 2011
ConEdison Solutions and Viridity Energy, Inc. announced yesterday an expanded partnership offering customers "energy optimization," which the companies said is a, "first-to-market automated, revenue-generating, energy management offering."
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September 27, 2011
NRG Energy, Inc. said that it is partnering with the University of Delaware to commercialize new technology that will enable electric vehicle (EV) owners to sell electric storage services from the batteries of parked EVs to help stabilize the electricity grid.
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September 26, 2011
PJM has submitted to FERC a proposal to allow load serving entities, as well as other providers, to commit Price Responsive Demand (PRD) to PJM, with such commitments reducing the capacity obligation sourced through the Reliability Pricing Model auction.
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September 19, 2011
Maryland PSC Staff requested that the PSC issue a show cause order to the four curtailment service providers selected under the "Gap RFP," as well as the utility counterparties, to ensure that double counting is not occurring and to, "address why all the Gap RFP Agreements should not be voided."
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September 16, 2011
A PUCT Staff strawman for revisions to the energy efficiency rules (Subst. R. 25.181) would align the effective date for any revised energy efficiency cost recovery factor (EECRF) charged to REPs to the September 1 date for revisions to other riders charged to REPs.
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September 13, 2011
Constellation Energy has launched VirtuWatt 3.0, the next generation of its online energy management application for commercial users. VirtuWatt 3.0 provides users the ability to customize data views, including grid load, temperature and electricity price correlation, and day-ahead and real-time…
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August 23, 2011
Curtailment service providers (CSPs) must obtain electricity supplier licenses from the Maryland PSC to serve customers in the state, the Maryland PSC ordered yesterday (9241).
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August 22, 2011
Potomac Edison, "should investigate the potential for the creation of a CSP [curtailment service provider] program administered by Potomac Edison that is similar to its programs in West Virginia and Pennsylvania," the Maryland PSC directed in an order issued Friday (9236).
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August 10, 2011
The California PUC issued a proposed decision which would modify several aspects of the treatment of demand response under the Resource Adequacy (RA) mechanism.
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August 2, 2011
Respond Power has modified its dynamic rate product for customers at PPL Electric Utilities, now providing rewards for residential and commercial customers who reduce usage in response to alerts in addition to the previously offered rebates which were not tied to specific load reductions.
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July 14, 2011
Energy Curtailment Specialists, Inc. has petitioned the Maryland PSC to amend its demand response capacity agreements with Pepco and Delmarva Power, after failing to obtain the required capacity resources under the contracts for the 2011-12 delivery year at each of the utilities.
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July 6, 2011
Nordic Energy Services Partners with Midwest Lighting Services
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June 29, 2011
EnerNOC has petitioned the Maryland PSC to amend its demand response capacity agreements with Potomac Edison, Pepco, and Delmarva Power, after failing to obtain the required capacity resources under the contracts for the 2011-12 delivery year at any of the three utilities.
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June 28, 2011
ERCOT yesterday entered Energy Emergency Alert Level 1 for about an hour and a half, which prompted Oncor (independently of the ERCOT process) to initiate its first unscheduled curtailment order under the voluntary Commercial Load Management program.
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June 13, 2011
PUCT Schedules Additional Reserve Adequacy Workshop
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June 6, 2011
FERC has suspended PJM's tariff filing to revise the rules for measuring reductions from demand response resources which have cleared the capacity market, and ordered a technical conference on issues raised by protestors (ER11-3322).
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May 24, 2011
The California PUC has issued a proposed decision establishing local procurement obligations for 2012 and further refining the resource adequacy program (Rulemaking 09-10-032).
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May 16, 2011
PJM's Base Residual Auction for the 2014-2015 Delivery Year produced a clearing price, for all resources except Limited Demand Response, of $125.99/MW-day for the Rest of RTO region, a spike of nearly $100 versus the 2013-2014 clearing price of $27.73/MW-day.
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May 4, 2011
A settlement regarding West Penn Power's (Allegheny) dynamic generation rate proposals would, for residential service, replace the original Time of Use (TOU) rate proposal with a "competitively neutral" Critical Peak Rebate (CPR) program.
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April 14, 2011
Champion Energy Services has begun offering a Time of Use product in ERCOT, COO Michael Sullivan reported during a panel at the Gulf Coast Power Association spring conference.
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April 13, 2011
FERC denied a complaint from EnerNOC against FirstEnergy Corp. relating to the Fixed Resource Requirement integration auctions which were part of moving the American Transmission Systems Inc. load into PJM (EL10-63).
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