February 29, 2012
Increased competitive retail sales directly to large and mass markets customers by FirstEnergy Solutions, net of the impact from changed pricing versus the year-ago, led to a $164 million improvement in commodity margin during the fourth quarter of 2011, FirstEnergy said in reporting earnings.
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February 16, 2012
WGES Names Melanie Santiago-Mosier Director of Regulatory and Legislative Affairs
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February 16, 2012
Green Mountain Energy Receives License to Serve Residential Customers in New State
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February 7, 2012
A California PUC agenda (draft) resolution would institute a rulemaking to consider and adopt a code of conduct, rules, and enforcement procedures governing the conduct of electrical corporations relative to the consideration, formation, and implementation of community choice aggregation (CCA)…
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February 6, 2012
AEP Ohio will not be required to immediately revise its detailed implementation plan (DIP) regarding the allocation of discounted capacity to comply with a recent clarification from PUCO, an Ohio attorney examiner held Friday.
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February 3, 2012
Retail suppliers and other competitive supply parties have asked the California PUC to consider the further unbundling of distribution rates at Pacific Gas & Electric.
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January 26, 2012
AEP Ohio said that it would not file a new version of the Detailed Implementation Plan concerning the allocation of discounted capacity to customers absent further direction from the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, or the case's attorney examiners, notwithstanding PUCO's recent entry requiring…
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January 24, 2012
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has clarified its order concerning the discounted capacity set asides available for shopping customers at AEP Ohio, which will expand the amount of load able to be served with RPM-priced capacity versus how AEP Ohio proposed to implement PUCO's prior order.
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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…
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January 3, 2012
Pacific Gas & Electric has filed an application with the California PUC to modify the fees charged for various services provided to electric service providers and community choice aggregators, which includes an increase in certain consolidated billing fees.
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January 3, 2012
Direct Energy has acquired Vectren Source from Vectren Corporation for $39 million in cash, plus additional working capital.
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December 23, 2011
A final Illinois order allows the Illinois Power Agency (IPA) to procure, for default service customers at Ameren Illinois, capacity for the periods 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 during the solicitation held in early 2012 (11-0660).
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December 21, 2011
The New York PSC approved without modification a revised auction plan for the divestiture of fossil generation owned by Rochester Gas & Electric and an affiliate (10/24) . As previously reported, the revised auction plan separates the original bundle of assets to remove less attractive assets, in…
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December 14, 2011
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved a modified stipulation establishing the AEP Ohio companies' electric security plan governing default service for the period 2012 through May 31, 2016, which revises the amount of "discounted" capacity made available to competitive retail suppliers (11…
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December 14, 2011
A proposed Illinois order would allow the Illinois Power Agency (IPA) to procure, for default service customers at Ameren Illinois, capacity for the periods 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 during the solicitation held in early 2012 (11-0660).
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December 12, 2011
Interstate Gas Supply has asked the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to cap the amount of discounted capacity available to governmental aggregations which would otherwise be made available under a pending non-unanimous settlement regarding AEP Ohio's electric security plan.
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December 8, 2011
The FirstEnergy Ohio distribution companies saw a significant decline in migrated residential accounts during the three months ended September 30, 2011, versus the total as of the June 30, 2011.
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November 14, 2011
The California PUC approved a final resolution allowing community choice aggregators (CCAs), and communities studying CCA implementation, to receive additional customer information from Pacific Gas & Electric (1/7) .
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November 1, 2011
Resident Power, a mass market aggregator active in New England, says that it has acquired a sufficient number of participants for its initial aggregation pool in New Hampshire and has begun enrolling customers with competitive suppliers.
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October 27, 2011
During an earnings call yesterday, Exelon CEO John Rowe continued a victory lap on recent, yet unapproved, settlements at Duke Energy Ohio and AEP Ohio that would require both utilities to begin procuring 100% of capacity for customers through the Reliability Pricing Model in 2015.
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October 21, 2011
Karthik Rajan Named VP of ERCOT Sales for GDF SUEZ Energy Resources NA
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October 20, 2011
Liberty Power Selected to Supply Philly Buying Power
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October 19, 2011
In response to comments filed at the Illinois Commerce Commission, the Illinois Power Agency has modified its proposed default service plan, including the provisions related to long-term capacity, RECs, and clean coal contracting.
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October 7, 2011
A draft California PUC resolution (E-4420) would allow Pacific Gas & Electric to share additional customer information with community choice aggregators (CCAs) and entities investigating becoming CCAs.
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September 30, 2011
The Illinois Commerce Commission has, apparently, revised the Price to Compare for residential non-space heating customers at Commonwealth Edison for the period October 2011 through May 2012. The Price to Compare page on Plug In Illinois, as well as an updated news release, now lists the ComEd Price…
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