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March 31, 2011
ERCOT has suspended several State Estimator Load Report postings on the Market Information System (MIS) as of March 30, 2011, at 09:00 due to specific claims of confidentiality raised by members of Texas Industrial Energy Consumers (TIEC).
March 29, 2011
Several Pennsylvania natural gas suppliers have raised concerns with various operational issues at Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania, and intend to address the issues in Columbia's pending rate case (R-2010-2215623, [see 1/18] ).
March 21, 2011
The Connecticut DPUC intends to establish a process to execute mid-cycle electric supplier changes on or before June 15, 2011, the Department said in a notice of workshop.
March 7, 2011
CenterPoint Energy said this morning that it has identified an issue with a small quantity (approximately 15,000) of advanced metering system Commercial Meters that will require some billing from the January and February billing periods to be retracted and re-billed.
February 22, 2011
Washington Gas Light has filed revised District of Columbia tariff changes to Rate Schedule No. 3 (Interruptible Sales Service), Rate Schedule No. 3A (Interruptible Delivery Service) and Rate Schedule No. 6 (Small Commercial Aggregation Pilot), which WGL said are designed to ensure that competitive…
February 7, 2011
PUCT Staff have filed in Project No. 38338 a proposed order that would provide that ERCOT's annual budget is subject to Commission review, but which tweaks other aspects of an earlier draft of rules meant to clarify and codify the Commission's existing authority over ERCOT ( see 8/13 ).
February 3, 2011
Direct Energy said yesterday that it is looking to expand its residential business "rapidly" in 2011, as it consolidated its U.S. Northeast residential operations in Pittsburgh.
January 25, 2011
Shahid Malik Joins South Jersey Industries Board South Jersey Industries, whose South Jersey Energy Co. subsidiary continues to expand its retail supply operations (see 11/9 and 8/6 ), has elected former Strategic Energy CEO Shahid Malik to the board of directors of SJI and South Jersey Energy Co.…
January 25, 2011
The New York PSC has approved a revision in the commodity price points and weightings used to price Winter Bundled Sales (WBS) Service at Central Hudson Gas & Electric (10-G-0541).
January 24, 2011
The New York PSC has approved National Fuel Gas Distribution Company's new cash-out procedures, which replace the prior end of the month rollovers for imbalances (10-G-0474, 12/8 ).
January 19, 2011
Several Texas retail electric providers and Transmission and Distribution Service Providers have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to address the REPs' concerns of waiting until the next cycle billing date to receive meter tampering discretionary charges and rebills.
January 12, 2011
Champion Energy, MXenergy Join RESA Champion Energy Services, LLC and MXenergy have joined the Retail Energy Supply Association, according RESA's FERC filing in ER11-2427 which lists both as members. No formal announcement of the new members has yet been issued.
January 11, 2011
The Maryland PSC has rejected as unsupported a largely consensus working group report which would have governed the use of standard electronic transactions between natural gas local distribution companies and competitive suppliers, per COMAR 20.59.
December 27, 2010
The National Energy Marketers Association has recommended revisions to several safe harbor provisions proposed by National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation in its New York tariff revisions regarding imbalances and cash-outs (10-G-0474, 12/8 ).
December 20, 2010
The Small Customer Marketer Coalition has raised new concerns regarding revised imbalance procedures at National Fuel Gas Distribution in New York, specifically regarding the components used in the index price for cash-outs (10-G-0474).
December 8, 2010
The Connecticut DPUC denied Cianbro Energy, LLC's request for a waiver of the supplier setup initialization fee ( 11/29 ).
December 8, 2010
National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation has filed further revisions to its imbalance and cash-out procedures with the New York PSC, adding a "safe harbor" provision to the pricing of imbalances.
November 18, 2010
ERCOT Board Approves Shadow Price Cap Methodology ERCOT's board of directors approved shadow price caps and power balance penalties as recommended by the Technical Advisory Committee. As required by nodal protocols, ERCOT staff developed a methodology for setting maximum shadow prices for network…
October 21, 2010
PECO has proposed changes to its Electric Generation Supplier (EGS) tariff to modify the process for estimating a supplier's load requirements.
October 20, 2010
The Small Customer Marketer Coalition has opposed several tariff revisions filed by National Fuel Gas Distribution Corp. in New York to modify its treatment of imbalances for Supplier Transportation, Balancing and Aggregation (STBA) service.
October 20, 2010
Niagara Mohawk has proposed that it not implement its plan to provide customers with remote access to their account numbers at this time due to the lack of agreement among ESCOs to fund implementation (98-M-1343).
October 11, 2010
Several retail natural gas suppliers have asked the Georgia PSC to consider implementing a permanent three day standard for Atlanta Gas Light to follow in regard to connecting, disconnecting and reconnecting customers, including monthly reporting of the service level standards (Docket 31647-U).
October 6, 2010
Central Hudson has filed with the New York PSC several gas tariff amendments to clarify the daily balancing requirement and revise the monthly balancing and semi-annual settlement provisions contained in the company's retail access program. The company is proposing that these amendments become…
September 28, 2010
AEP Energy Partners has submitted Nodal Protocol Revision Request 281 to eliminate the requirement that Qualified Scheduling Entities representing Wind-powered Generation Resources (WGRs) must provide a 7-day forecast in their Current Operating Plan (COP).
September 28, 2010
National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation has filed with the New York PSC several proposed changes to its cash-out policies.
