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April 25, 2013
Acclaim Energy Advisors announced that it has reached a six-year strategic agreement with the Texas General Land Office to provide dynamic load optimization services to government agencies and facilities.
March 1, 2013
Broker-consultant Texzon Utilities has announced a strategic partnership with RobustEnergy LLC, a Combined Heat & Power (CHP) developer.
February 15, 2013
Retail suppliers participating in the Met-Ed, Penelec, Penn Power and West Penn Power opt-in customer aggregation program will not have to provide the rate for their eight-month fixed price offer (delivery under which will start in about October 2013) as early as February 2013, the PUC ruled…
December 11, 2012
Constellation announced the nationwide launch of VirtuWatt Link, which the company described as, "the first web service application to facilitate automated load response program participation."
December 5, 2012
Verde Energy USA and the City of St. Charles, Illinois announced the launch of a clean energy efficiency partnership and demonstration project.
November 15, 2012
Reliant announced that after one year, residents of its Innovation Avenue pilot reduced their electricity usage by an average of 16 percent, with one home achieving a 32 percent reduction in electricity usage.
November 13, 2012
The Illinois Commerce Commission has issued a First Notice order containing proposed rules which require that entities installing, maintaining, and repairing electric vehicle (EV) charging stations shall be certified by the Commission.
November 6, 2012
NRG Energy, through its eVgo subsidiary, is moving forward with its deployment of an electric vehicle (EV) charging network in California after FERC approved a settlement under which NRG Energy will deploy the network.
June 4, 2012
AT&T and Acclaim Energy Advisors today announced a strategic agreement to provide business customers with dynamic load optimization services to reduce customers' costs while protecting sensitive equipment from power surges and helping restore reliability to the power grid.
May 28, 2012
The District of Columbia PSC has opened a Notice of Inquiry regarding overarching issues relating to regulatory treatment of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations and related services, and issued a series of initial questions for stakeholder comment (FC 1096).
April 24, 2012
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed a draft proposal for adoption concerning distributed natural gas generation, ownership of distributed renewable generation, and related issues, including issues impacting retail electric providers (39797).
March 30, 2012
The Pennsylvania PUC has adopted a final order setting forth an interpretation of the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards (AEPS) Act that permits the net metering of facilities even where not owned by the host customer (such as for financing reasons).
March 26, 2012
The California Public Utilities Commission and NRG Energy have entered into an agreement, to resolve litigation relating to a 2001 energy crisis electricity contract, under which NRG will build a comprehensive electric vehicle (EV) charging network in California, investing approximately $100 million…
March 22, 2012
TXU Energy has released a new Brighten iThermostat, a programmable thermostat that gives customers control over the temperature in their home through any web-enabled PC or smartphone.
March 14, 2012
Northeast Utilities, Nstar, the Connecticut Attorney General, and Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel have filed a settlement under which the OCC and AG will support the companies' merger before PURA.
March 8, 2012
The legal status of electric vehicle public charging stations is a key unresolved issue and will require legislation to clarify, says the Illinois Commerce Commission's Plug-In Electric Vehicle Initiative Report .
February 27, 2012
Georgia Power has opposed a bill before the Georgia legislature which it said amounts to deregulation.
January 4, 2012
FirstEnergy Solutions has petitioned the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to maintain then-current (as of the December 30, 2011 date of FES' motion) rates at AEP Ohio, or alternatively maintain the then-current cost of capacity, until such time as AEP Ohio has accepted the partial stipulation, as…
December 6, 2011
"[M]ore than half of U.S. states allow retail competition for large industrial or commercial customers, [but] few today have competitive electricity retail markets at the residential level," says a new report by MIT.
November 22, 2011
ERCOT has issued for comment draft amendments to P.U.C. Substantive Rule 25.507, which would, among other things, expand the current Emergency Interruptible Load Service (EILS) program to include distributed generation.
November 21, 2011
NRG Energy, Inc. announced this morning that it has acquired San Francisco-based Solar Power Partners, a developer of commercial and industrial distributed solar projects.
October 20, 2011
Stanford University has requested that the California PUC modify Decision 03-04-030 to clarify that loads that were served by customer generation prior to February 1, 2001 and that subsequently switch to direct access (DA) service are only obligated to pay DA cost responsibility surcharges (CRS)…
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).
October 12, 2011
Reliant will use 12 homes in Houston as a laboratory to evaluate a suite of smart energy tools and services, dubbed Reliant Innovation Avenue.
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.
