January 26, 2011
TransCanada Power Marketing Ltd. applied for clarification and/or rehearing of the New York PSC's December decision revising the Uniform Business Practices to incorporate the ESCO Consumer Bill of Rights and related provisions, in order to ensure a consistent definition of a residential customer (98…
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January 21, 2011
The Oregon PUC has re-opened Docket UM 1182 to further examine issues related to the competitive bidding guidelines for procurement of supplies for the investor-owned utilities.
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January 10, 2011
FERC Denies Rehearing on Elimination of Corporate Guarantees in ISO New England FERC denied rehearing of its July order which eliminated corporate guarantees as a form of credit in ISO New England (ER10-942). Several competitive retail and wholesale suppliers had sought rehearing, arguing that the…
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January 6, 2011
PJM has sought approval at FERC to impose late payment fees on members failing to pay invoices in a timely manner, effective April 1, 2011.
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December 31, 2010
FERC approved PJM Settlement, Inc.'s request to guarantee the obligations of PJM and authorized other securities-related requests, dismissing protests from several competitive market participants (ES11-8).
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December 23, 2010
PJM has submitted to FERC modifications to its calculation of Peak Market Activity, used to set a market participant's credit requirements, to remove situations where a revised methodology adopted earlier this year could result in higher than anticipated credit requirements.
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October 22, 2010
Under the guise of reform, FERC issued an order on RTO credit policies which will increase end users' costs for generation service by millions of dollars annually (RM10-13).
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October 11, 2010
Constellation Energy on October 8 informed the U.S. Department of Energy that it cannot move forward with the loan guarantee process regarding UniStar Nuclear Energy's Calvert Cliffs 3 loan guarantee application because, "the proposed terms and conditions are unworkable."
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October 5, 2010
Several stakeholders urged the PUCT not to adjust the design of the ERCOT System Administration Fee (SAF) ahead of potential action by the legislature in the 2011 session in response to the Sunset Commission report, while TXU Energy said that the current mechanism for charging the fee appropriately…
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September 29, 2010
The ERCOT market should expect that some retail electric providers will default in 2011 as a result of mismanaging their commercial operations in the nodal market, Chris Brewster, Partner at Lloyd Gosselink, said during a panel discussion on the nodal market at the Gulf Coast Power Association's…
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