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May 6, 2015
Citizens for Local Power (CLP) has proposed an opt-out municipal aggregation "demonstration" project for Ulster County, New York, as part of a collaborative on Reforming the Energy Visions projects resulting from Central Hudson's rate case.
April 30, 2015
The New York PSC issued a discussion document drafted by Staff in advance of a previously reported technical conference on distributed energy resource provider licensing.
April 22, 2015
The New York PSC has scheduled for May 12 a technical conference to discuss rules regarding Commission regulation and oversight of Distributed Energy Resource (DER) providers and products, and to discuss and develop proposals for new eligibility criteria for Energy Service Companies (ESCOs)…
April 6, 2015
As part of its Reforming the Energy Vision proceeding, the New York PSC has invited the state's six investor-owned electric utilities to participate in a "conversation" about their code of conduct, "in the face of the new business opportunities that may emerge with REV."
March 31, 2015
New York's Reforming the Energy Vision proceeding provides an "unlimited opportunity" for retail energy suppliers, Great Eastern Energy CEO Matt Lanfear told EnergyChoiceMatters.com in a recent interview.
March 18, 2015
N.Y. Sets Information Session on REV Demonstration Projects
February 27, 2015
In two unsurprising actions, the New York PSC selected the electric utilities as the provider of the Distributed System Platform (DSP), which is the PSC's new regulatory paradigm to encourage distributed energy resources (DERs), and said that, while not pre-determining any final outcomes, it expects…
February 27, 2015
The New York PSC will allow utility affiliates to own distributed energy resources (DER) under its Reforming the Energy Vision framework, in which the utility operates as the distributed system service provider.
February 27, 2015
The New York PSC aims to incubate an online platform and exchange for retail energy that could instill confidence in commodity supply and distributed energy purchases, it directed in its Reforming the Energy Vision Order
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.
December 24, 2014
The New York PSC has further extended the schedule for consideration of its Reforming the Energy Vision proceeding, specifically, the Track 2 proceeding.
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 15, 2014
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday announced "milestone" steps taken in New York State's comprehensive "Reforming the Energy Vision," including steps concerning municipal aggregation.
November 17, 2014
NRG eVgo, a subsidiary of NRG Energy, Inc., is expanding its electric vehicle (EV) charging offerings to the Chicago market.
October 17, 2014
SolarCity and Direct Energy announced that they will provide solar electricity and solar energy storage systems at two BJ's Wholesale Club locations.
October 13, 2014
The question of utility, or utility affiliate, ownership will be the focus of one of the panels at a supplemental technical conference to be held November 6 in New York's Reforming the Energy Vision proceeding.
September 23, 2014
Retail suppliers were highly critical of a New York PSC Staff straw proposal regarding the Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) industry structure, with one ESCO proclaiming that the proposal, "threatens to roll back two decades of competitive restructuring in New York altogether."
August 25, 2014
Staff of the New York PSC has issued a straw proposal for Track One of New York's Reforming the Energy Visions Proceeding, which, among other things, recommends enhancements to consolidated utility billing, and would grant distributed energy resource (DER) providers with customers information…
August 14, 2014
NRG Energy, Inc. and Goal Zero, described as a leader in providing personal solar products, have reached an agreement that will bring the "rapidly growing consumer products company" into the NRG family of companies.
August 12, 2014
Direct Energy has launched a partnership with SmartThings to bring a "smarter" and connected home to energy customers in Texas.
July 31, 2014
The New York PSC has delayed when it expects to issue a decision on policy questions under Track 1 of its Reforming the Energy Vision proceeding.
July 29, 2014
Exelon Corporation announced that it will provide equity financing for 21 megawatts (MW) of Bloom Energy fuel cell projects at 75 commercial facilities in California, Connecticut, New Jersey and New York.
July 22, 2014
The City of New York has raised concern with the "aggressive" schedule for the New York PSC's Reforming the Energy Vision proceeding, contrasting the case's pace to the deliberate approach the PSC took to a similar fundamental restructuring of the industry, the introduction of competition, and also…
July 22, 2014
New York utilities have said that their role in the state's Reforming the Energy Vision framework should include ownership of distributed generation, and the offering of, "value-added services"
