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February 27, 2015
In two unsurprising actions, the New York PSC selected the electric utilities as the provider of the Distributed System Platform (DSP), which is the PSC's new regulatory paradigm to encourage distributed energy resources (DERs), and said that, while not pre-determining any final outcomes, it expects…
February 27, 2015
The New York PSC will allow utility affiliates to own distributed energy resources (DER) under its Reforming the Energy Vision framework, in which the utility operates as the distributed system service provider.
October 17, 2014
SolarCity and Direct Energy announced that they will provide solar electricity and solar energy storage systems at two BJ's Wholesale Club locations.
March 14, 2014
A decision from the California PUC authorizes two utilities to procure generation to meet local capacity requirements, with recovery authorized through the nonbypassable Cost Allocation Mechanism.
March 7, 2014
Texas PUC Approves Cease & Desist Authority
February 12, 2014
A proposed decision from the California PUC would authorize two utilities to procure generation to meet local capacity requirements, with recovery authorized through the nonbypassable Cost Allocation Mechanism.
January 28, 2014
Keyspan New York and Keyspan Long Island have proposed a series of changes to the companies' retail access programs, relating to ESCO delivery requirements, ESCO access to swing assets, and the companies' balancing/nominations procedures.
December 9, 2013
Arizona Corporation Commissioner Bob Burns has suggested a series of workshops and topics to be addressed in a docket addressing potential impacts to the current utility model resulting from innovation and technological developments in generation and delivery of energy (Docket E-00000J-13-0375).
November 5, 2013
The Slater Technology Fund announced that it has committed an additional $100,000 to VCharge, an energy management services company whose operation includes retail electric supply in competitive markets, as part of their $1-million dollar round, bringing Slater's total investment to $600,000.
October 22, 2013
NRG Energy, Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary NRG Solar, formally launched the offering of the NRG Solar Canopy, a freestanding solar power generation structure
October 22, 2013
NRG Energy, according to its website, is now testing a distributed generation technology, relying on solar, natural gas, and battery input, in homes and businesses.
October 18, 2013
The California PUC adopted a final order setting mandates for load serving entities, including competitive electric service providers, to procure electricity storage resources
September 5, 2013
A proposed California order would require load serving entities, including retail electric service providers and community choice aggregators in addition to utilities, to meet mandates for the procurement of energy storage.
July 17, 2013
New President Named for Parent of Retail Supplier
May 21, 2013
A parent of several retail suppliers is investing in a firm developing energy storage technologies.
April 9, 2013
The acquisition of Equitable Gas Company, LLC by Peoples Natural Gas could negatively impact the retail market due to the transfer of certain storage assets to an Equitable affiliate under the transaction, Dominion Retail, Inc. and Interstate Gas Supply, Inc. said in a petition to intervene.
December 5, 2012
Verde Energy USA and the City of St. Charles, Illinois announced the launch of a clean energy efficiency partnership and demonstration project.
October 17, 2012
Staff of the New York Public Service Commission have proposed to make consistent, at Central Hudson Gas & Electric, charges to retail suppliers for Winter Bundled Sales Service, and charges paid by firm sales customers for storage.
August 13, 2012
VCharge Inc. has begun offering residential electric supply at PPL.
August 8, 2012
Mitsui & Co., Ltd. has disclosed that its investment in Viridity Energy, reported earlier by Matters , will amount to $15 million.
May 22, 2012
VCharge Inc., which as first reported by Matters is seeking a Pennsylvania electric generation supplier license , has offered to cap its number of Pennsylvania enrollments as a condition of its request for a lower financial security requirement.
May 14, 2012
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed a draft proposal for adoption to amend P.U.C. SUBST. R. 25.361 in order to give ERCOT the authority to conduct pilot projects to evaluate new and emerging technologies, such as energy storage projects, to determine the benefits that these…
March 30, 2012
Any rules adopted by the Public Utility Commission of Texas granting ERCOT authority to conduct pilot projects to evaluate new and emerging technologies, "should make clear that any pilot project cannot result in unjustified cost to the market ... [and] should also explicitly reaffirm the statutory…
March 8, 2012
PUCT Authorizes Increase in Oncor Commercial Load Management Program
February 21, 2012
PUCT Staff have filed a draft proposal for adoption for rules concerning energy storage, including a change from the proposal for publication concerning storage's obligation to share in the cost of ancillary services (Project 39917).
