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October 19, 2015
WGL Energy Services, Inc. has raised concerns about the prospect for utility-owned generation and related services under conditions proposed in a merger settlement agreement among various District of Columbia government agencies and Exelon and Pepco
October 16, 2015
Millions of dollars are still available for Texas retail electric providers to be reimbursed for providing no-cost programmable communicating thermostats and in-home displays to eligible low-income customers.
September 29, 2015
Centrica has created two new "international" business units focused on distributed energy & power and on connected homes
September 4, 2015
New York PSC Staff will convene on September 9, 2015 a collaborative meeting with interested parties to investigate and evaluate low-income customer participation in community distributed generation, including removing potential barriers to their participation and devising possible demonstration…
September 3, 2015
The Maryland PSC opened Public Conference 40 (PC 40) to investigate the technical and financial barriers to the deployment of small distributed energy resources in the state, and scheduled an initial technical conference for October 20, 2015.
August 21, 2015
ERCOT has posted a draft concept paper on distributed energy resources (DERs) in the ERCOT region intended to serve as a catalyst for development of new Protocols and other market rules affecting DERs in the ERCOT region and ERCOT wholesale markets, centered around two primary goals: (1)·Collection…
August 17, 2015
During Friday's open meeting, Texas Public Utility Commissioner Kenneth Anderson noted that during the recent heat in Texas, the ERCOT market has seen a significant and repeated reduction of load once certain prices are hit (non-emergency curtailments).
August 12, 2015
Constellation announced an agreement to develop 40 megawatts (MW) of Bloom Energy fuel cell projects for commercial and public sector customers in California, Connecticut, New Jersey and New York.
August 10, 2015
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have sought guidance from the Commission whether the current 10 MW cap used to define distributed generation should be increased or eliminated from the rules governing distributed generation.
August 5, 2015
The New York PSC announced that the following Reforming the Energy Vision demonstration projects have been determined to meet the REV principles and will move forward with implementation plans. All descriptions of the plans are directly quoted from a PSC press release
August 5, 2015
As part of its proposed Reforming the Energy Vision demonstration projects in New York, Niagara Mohawk (National Grid) has proposed to bundle distributed energy resource (DER) services and products on customers' energy bills, while offering customers a flat bill per month, for customers residing in…
August 5, 2015
Consolidated Edison's proposed CONnectED Homes Platform, a Reforming the Energy Vision demonstration project which envisions the utility bundling and reselling value-added services to customers, was not among a set of initial demonstration projects which received approval from Staff this week.
July 30, 2015
Centrica released results of a strategic review that it had been conducting across its businesses, and said that its, "North America customer-facing businesses are an important part of the Group."
July 29, 2015
N.Y. Sets Technical Conference on ESCO, DER Licensing Rules
July 29, 2015
New York PSC Staff have proposed eligibility criteria and rules for distributed energy resource suppliers (DERS)
July 27, 2015
Certain of the Reforming the Energy Vision proposed demonstration projects -- particularly Consolidated Edison's CONnectED Homes Platform -- would provide to selected utility partners, "a distinct and discriminatory competitive advantage," the Retail Energy Supply Association said in comments to the…
July 16, 2015
A draft report on the market design for New York Reforming the Energy Vision does not envision that utilities will procure energy from distributed resources for resale to default service customers.
July 2, 2015
Central Hudson Gas & Electric has proposed as a Reforming the Energy Visions product developing an Amazon-like online exchange for customers to purchase, "energy management products and services."
July 2, 2015
Consolidated Edison has filed several Reforming the Energy Vision products, and one of the projects, its CONnectED Homes Platform, envisions the utility bundling and reselling value-added services to customers.
June 22, 2015
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have recommended denying the application of Constellation EG LLC for registration as a self-generator
June 8, 2015
As part of a new proceeding regarding energy storage (D.P.U. 15-ESC-12), the Massachusetts DPU has sought comment on utility ownership of energy storage Specifically, the DPU asked:
May 26, 2015
NRG Energy has been selected by Central Hudson Gas & Electric for a microgrid demonstration project under Central Hudson's proposed Reforming the Energy Visions demonstration projects.
May 21, 2015
Electranet Power, LLC applied for an Option 2 Texas retail electric provider certificate to serve customers 1 MW or larger who provide an affidavit agreeing to such service.
May 19, 2015
Direct Energy is engaged in a pilot to evaluate the capabilities of remotely controllable smart electric water heaters.
May 13, 2015
ONEnergy Inc., the parent of retail supplier Sunwave Gas & Power, announced a sales and distribution agreement with LG Chem Inc. under which ONEnergy's Sunwave Energy Efficiency division will distribute and market LG Chem's lithium ion-based Energy Storage Systems (ESS).
