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March 7, 2019
NYSERDA filed at the PSC a request for an extension of the due date on which load-serving entities (LSE) are required to provide the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) with executed contracts (LSE Contracts) for the purchase of offshore wind renewable energy…
February 21, 2019
The Arizona Corp. Commission Staff rescheduled for February 25 a stakeholder meeting on possible modifications to the Commission's Rules for Renewable Energy Standard and Tariff ("REST"), the Environmental Portfolio Standard ("EPS"), and Net Metering.
February 15, 2019
The Retail Energy Supply Association (RESA) has filed a formal petition with the New Jersey BPU seeking withdrawal of Board Staff's January 22 letter which has instructed third party suppliers (TPSs) to cease and desist any pass-throughs to fixed price customers, under a change-in-law clause…
February 11, 2019
Asks BPU Director To "Withdraw" Cease-and-Desist Letter On Fixed Price Pass-Throughs
In a letter dated January 25, the Retail Energy Supply Association said that it was, "irrefutable," that retail suppliers may pass through any, "other state mandated charges," on fixed rate contracts, and asked that the Director of the New Jersey BPU's Division of Energy withdraw a cease-and-desist…
February 5, 2019
Draft legislation to be filed by the Connecticut Consumer Counsel Elin Swanson Katz to end residential electric choice envisions requiring the utilities to offer alternative default service options
January 30, 2019
Directs Refunds For Increases Regulator Says Are Not Required Under "Change In Law"
The Director of the New Jersey BPU's Division of Energy has issued a letter to "Each New Jersey Licensed Third Party Supplier" concerning any action to increase the supplier's fixed rate contracts due to P.L. 2018, c. 17, which modified various provisions of the state's renewable portfolio standard…
January 22, 2019
Direct Energy Business Marketing, LLC (DEBM) and Community Energy, Inc. (CE) submitted a joint petition to the Pennsylvania PUC requesting that, "the electric production of ten out-of-state solar facilities be qualified as satisfying the Tier 1 solar photovoltaic shares alternative energy credits…
December 19, 2018
Council States Intent That Utility Shall Not Own Energy Storage
The Council of the District of Columbia passed as final an amended substitute of Bill B22-0904, which increases the District's RPS to 100%
December 18, 2018
Community Energy Inc. today announced the approval of a 70-megawatt (MW) solar Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in Adams County, Pennsylvania to power government facilities in Philadelphia, PA.
December 17, 2018
The New York PSC has approved a Phase 3 Implementation Plan for the Clean Energy Standard (CES, similar to RPS)
December 13, 2018
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio issued an order establishing that the non-solar renewable energy resource compliance payment under R.C. 4928.64(C)(2)(b) shall be $51.31/MWh for 2018.
November 28, 2018
RESA Urges Elimination Of Proposed Utility-Run Energy Efficiency Programs From Bill
The Council of the District of Columbia passed on first reading Bill B22-0904, which would increase the District's RPS to 100%
November 16, 2018
Urges State To "Consider" Utility Ownership Of Generation
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has released a final Solar Future Plan for the state which recommends development of guidelines for "limited" use of long-term utility contracts with solar developers
October 18, 2018
The Retail Energy Supply Association has filed a request with the Connecticut Utilities Regulatory Authority asking that PURA establish a quarterly meeting schedule of the Supplier Working Group to discuss one or more of the following topics:
August 28, 2018
In a Secretarial Letter the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (Commission) granted, in part, the Petition of AEP Energy, Inc. (AEP) to extend the 90-day true-up period to demonstrate compliance with the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act (AEPS Act) for the current reporting period of…
August 8, 2018
The Massachusetts legislature has enacted a bill establishing a "clean peak" standard (CPS), or obligation imposed on retail electric suppliers
August 2, 2018
The Massachusetts investor-owned electric distribution companies have collectively sought approval at the DPU for PPAs totaling 800 MW with Vineyard Wind LLC for offshore wind energy
July 26, 2018
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) announced in a news release that it has, "proposed a rule that would establish an offshore wind funding mechanism known as an Offshore Wind Energy Certificate (OREC)."
July 17, 2018
The New York PSC has, for the utilities, lifted a cap on banking RECs for compliance with the clear energy standard (CES) only for any RECs the utilities are required to purchase under the compensation mechanism the PSC adopted for utility purchases from distributed energy resources
July 13, 2018
The New York PSC adopted a final order directing the centralized procurement of offshore wind that places a compliance obligation on LSEs, including ESCOs
June 5, 2018
In comments to the New York PSC, Direct Energy Services, LLC recommended that a proposed purchase of offshore wind renewable energy credits ("ORECs") should be fully managed by each electric distribution company ("EDC") in New York and passed through to the customer through a non-bypassable charge…
April 7, 2018
The Connecticut PURA has issued a response to NRG Energy clarifying certain retail supplier RPS compliance requirements in light of statutory changes
April 4, 2018
Stakeholders filed testimony with the California PUC concerning the allocation of supply costs, incurred by utilities to serve bundled service customers, to competitive suppliers when such customers depart the utility for a competitive LSE, via charges or alternatives to the current Power Charge…
March 27, 2018
NRG Retail submitted to the Connecticut PURA an emergency motion for clarification of effect of certain legislative changes during the 2017 session related to Connecticut renewable portfolio standard compliance.
January 30, 2018
In a paper on policy options for developing 2.4 GW of offshore wind for New York, NYSERDA envisions imposing the funding obligation for offshore wind on New York LSEs, and specifically recommends a process similar to the ZEC mechanism for nuclear procurement obligations
