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Final Calif. Decision Lowers Amount To Be Procured By Retail Suppliers For Share Of Incremental Reliability Resources & Renewable Integration Resources

Final Order Allows Retail Suppliers To Self-Provide (All or None), But Permits Use Of Utility Procurement Backstop Final Order Allows Some Imports To Qualify

The California PUC issued a final order concerning the obligation of LSEs, including competitive retail suppliers (electric service providers, or ESPs) to procure their assigned share of needed incremental reliability and renewable integration resources identified by the order

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Revised Calif. Proposed Decision Would Alter Allocation Method & Amount For Assignment To Retail Suppliers Of Responsibility For Procuring Portion Of Incremental Reliability Resources & Renewable Integration Resources

A revised proposed decision from a California PUC ALJ would revise the allocation method, and amounts required, for the obligation of competitive retail suppliers (electric service providers, or ESPs) to procure their assigned share of needed incremental reliability and renewable integration…

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Proposed Calif. PUC Order Would Assign Responsibility For Procuring Portion Of Incremental Reliability Resources & Renewable Integration Resources To Retail Suppliers

Would Assign Responsibility To Retail Suppliers Rather Than Having Utility Conduct Procurement, With Use Of CAM

A proposed order for a California PUC ALJ would require competitive retail suppliers (electric service providers, or ESPs), community choice aggregations, and investor-owned utilities to procure their assigned share of incremental reliability and renewable integration resources identified by the…

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Retail Suppliers, Calif. Utility File Settlement To Establish Central Buyer For "Residual" Capacity

LSEs Would No Longer Be Obligated To Individually Procure Capacity, But Could Elect To Do So September 3 , 2019

A group of retail suppliers, generators, community choice aggregators and San Diego Gas & Electric Company have filed a settlement with the California PUC that would adopt a "residual" central buyer structure to resolve issues respecting central procurement of Resource Adequacy (RA) under the…

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Massachusetts Attorney General Seeks Process For Discovery, Potential For Evidentiary Hearings, In DPU Review Of Boston Municipal Aggregation Plan

Cites Potential Harm To Default Service Customers From Boston Aggregation City Had Sought Approval By End Of August, For January 2020 Start Date

The Massachusetts Attorney General (AGO) has requested that the Massachusetts DPU set a procedural schedule in the DPU's consideration of the City of Boston's electricity opt-out municipal aggregation plan that would allow for discovery and the ability to request evidentiary hearings

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Arizona Commissioner: "Long Way To Go" Before Deciding Retail Electric Choice

Cites Experience in California, Texas (Notes Recent Texas Emergency Alert, Price Spikes) Cites "Pattern Of Consumer Fraud" Under Retail Choice Suggests 20 Square Mile Geographic Pilot For Retail Choice (All Customer Classes)

The Arizona Corporation Commission has, "a long way to go," before being able to make a decision concerning retail electric choice, Commissioner Sandra Kennedy wrote in a memo filed in the electric choice proceeding

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Staff Of State Regulator Proposes Retail Suppliers Be Required To Disclose That Supplier "Competes" With Municipal Aggregation, At Start Of Marketing

Staff No Longer Recommending Suppliers Report Certain Data Concerning Low-Income Customers Staff Invites Suppliers To Present Alternative To Use Of Customer Account Numbers For Enrollment

Staff of the Massachusetts DPU in a working group presentation has proposed alternative language for marketing disclosures for retail electric suppliers, compared to disclosures developed by a supplier-led work group.

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