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March 25, 2011
The PUCT yesterday granted ERCOT the authority to procure additional Emergency Interruptible Load Service (EILS) under a new contract period, limiting such emergency authority to April through May 2011 (2/28) .
March 24, 2011
A determination by the ISO New England Internal Market Monitoring Unit that 151 MW of new energy efficiency resources resulting from state sponsored programs, which had sought to bid into the fifth Forward Capacity Auction, are out of market could result in hundreds of millions of dollar in…
March 23, 2011
PUCT Staff have recommended that the Commission allow ERCOT to procure additional Emergency Interruptible Load Service (EILS) under a new contract period, and that the Commission limit such emergency authority to April and May 2011 (2/28) .
March 16, 2011
FERC issued an order yesterday directing that demand response providers be paid the full Locational Marginal Price when such payment is "cost effective" based on a net benefits test (RM10-17).
March 4, 2011
FERC said yesterday that it will treat a joint statement from PJM and the Independent Market Monitor regarding the Guaranteed Load Drop (GLD) baseline methodology for measuring demand response, "as if it were never issued."
February 28, 2011
ERCOT has filed an emergency petition with the PUCT to allow ERCOT to procure additional Emergency Interruptible Load Service (EILS) under a new contract period, and without the otherwise required 90 days notice, due to the exhaustion of allowable deployments of EILS resources in the current period…
February 1, 2011
Retail customers in PJM took another hit yesterday as federal regulators continued to create market designs which will lead to higher capacity prices, this time in approving the main tenets behind two new carve-out demand response products in the Reliability Pricing Model (ER11-2288).
January 13, 2011
IDT Energy Offering PECO Residential Service on PA Power Switch IDT Energy has started offering a residential electric rate on PA Power Switch for the PECO territory. IDT is offering a variable rate currently priced at 9.8139¢/kWh. As previously reported, IDT Energy began offering service through PA…
January 12, 2011
The Michigan PSC has issued a report on reducing peak demand under which the Commission finds that, "now is the time to explore, pilot, and demonstrate new load management concepts and technologies in advance of a turn-around in electric supply and demand, and a softening of the current economic…
January 6, 2011
Major Energy Receives Maryland Electric License The Maryland PSC granted Major Energy Electric Services, LLC an electric supplier license to serve residential, commercial and industrial customers at Baltimore Gas & Electric ( 11/2 ).
January 3, 2011
A Pennsylvania administrative law judge has recommended accepting without modification a settlement in Citizens' Electric Company of Lewisburg's rate case that would institute a direct load control pilot with costs recovered in base rates, rather than generation charges as originally proposed…
December 23, 2010
The Illinois Commerce Commission has adopted a default service procurement plan for Commonwealth Edison and Ameren that relies on short-term purchases of RECs to meet renewable compliance obligations (10-0563).
December 6, 2010
PJM has petitioned FERC for approval of two new demand response products for the Reliability Pricing Model capacity auction, which PJM said would enhance PJM's emergency dispatch options while recognizing, through capacity resource commitments, the expanded response capabilities that are latent in…
December 3, 2010
The Michigan PSC has directed the electric distribution utilities to file specific tariffs governing the participation of retail customers in RTO markets, but delayed the filing of such tariffs until further orders from FERC regarding participation of aggregators of retail customers (ARCs), which…
November 5, 2010
SouthStar Energy Services Seeks Md. Gas Supply License SouthStar Energy Services, LLC filed an application for a Maryland natural gas supplier license. A copy of SouthStar's application was not available. According to the maillog summary, SouthStar applied to do business as Maryland Energy.
October 29, 2010
FERC has accepted a settlement which compels North America Power Partners to pay a civil penalty of $500,000 and disgorge $2.2 million, plus interest, in unjust profits, relating to FERC Enforcement Staff's allegations that North America Power Partners engaged in a fraudulent scheme or artifice…
October 4, 2010
The Illinois Statewide Smart Grid Collaborative has filed a report with the Illinois Commerce Commission providing a detailed analysis of the issues surrounding the development of a smart grid in Illinois.
October 1, 2010
The Maryland PSC lacks the statutory authority to license curtailment service providers, Baltimore Gas & Electric and several curtailment service providers (CSPs) said in separate comments in Case 9241.
September 30, 2010
The Illinois Power Agency submitted to the Illinois Commerce Commission (10-0563) its final proposed plan for the procurement of electricity for non-hourly default service customers at Commonwealth Edison and the Ameren utilities for the period June 2011 through May 2016.
