November 5, 2013
Texas-New Mexico Power Company has filed at the Public Utility Commission of Texas revisions to Rider HCRF - Hurricane Cost Recovery Factor, in order to terminate collection of such approved Hurricane Ike restoration recovery costs prior to any over-collection.
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November 5, 2013
Several Texas retail electric providers have warned the Public Utility Commission of Texas that introducing retail choice to Sharyland Utilities' former Cap Rock service areas during the summer -- if a rate case schedule does not permit a May 1, 2014 transition to competition as originally…
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October 21, 2013
Delmarva Power & Light informed the Maryland PSC of its intent to cancel the enrollment of 69 customers for which it received an enrollment transaction from Starion Energy but which Starion said were erroneous.
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October 18, 2013
The Michigan PSC has directed Cloverland Electric Cooperative to allow MPI Acquisition, LLC to purchase electric supply from a competitive supplier in an amount which does not exceed the 10% statutory cap, but which also does not fully serve MPI Acquisition's load.
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October 17, 2013
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio adopted rules providing customers with the ability to opt-out of having an advanced meter.
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October 16, 2013
Retail electric suppliers have offered proposals to expeditiously improve the payment hierarchy for utility consolidated billing at the New Hampshire utilities.
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October 16, 2013
Plymouth Rock Energy, LLC has sought changes to the pricing of default natural gas supply at KeySpan New York (National Grid) to remove barriers to competition.
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October 16, 2013
DTE Gas Company (MichCon) has filed with the Michigan PSC changes to its voluntarily offered natural gas customer choice program, including the creation of a mandatory supplier rate board, and PSC Staff review of pricing
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October 11, 2013
Orange & Rockland has filed new purchase of receivables discount rates for electric and gas service, effective November 1.
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October 7, 2013
Blaming Ohio's "energy policy transition to market," Ormet announced that it was shutting down its Hannibal, Ohio aluminum smelting plant after the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio declined to fully grant Ormet's latest request for subsidized electric rates.
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October 1, 2013
Texas TDUs have filed widely varying estimates of the number of customers electing to opt-out of having a provisioned advanced meter, in filing their compliance tariffs to set the rates for the AMS opt-out.
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October 1, 2013
Texas transmission and distribution utilities have filed with the Public Utility Commission of Texas initial tariffs to implement an opt-out from advanced metering, including sought levels for the one-time and ongoing opt-out fees.
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September 26, 2013
Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company, d/b/a Unitil, has updated the Massachusetts DPU on the status of purchase of receivables implementation, including a more detailed description of the mechanics to implement POR prior to a new CIS.
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September 25, 2013
The Michigan PSC has ordered Wisconsin Electric Power Company to arrange for two customers, for which Wisconsin Electric was delaying switches to an alternative electric supplier, to be switched to choice service immediately.
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September 9, 2013
Ameren has filed tariff revisions to modify its electric purchase of receivables discount rate due to an error in the prior calculation.
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September 3, 2013
On August 30, FERC conditionally accepted a tariff filing by ISO New England Inc. to reflect that market participants may qualify for an exemption from certain provisions of the Commodities Exchange Act (CEA) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulations when engaging in specified…
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August 27, 2013
Enterprise Texas Pipeline LLC will pay a civil penalty of $315,000 under a settlement approved by FERC to resolve allegations that the company violated Section 311 of the Natural Gas Policy Act and various FERC regulations.
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August 20, 2013
The New Hampshire PUC has opened a formal proceeding (IR 13-233) to adjudicate a complaint against Public Service Company of New Hampshire lodged by PNE Energy Supply, LLC, in which PNE alleges, among other things, that PSNH is inappropriately applying a switching fee to both the losing and gaining…
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August 19, 2013
A Texas court of appeals has ruled that CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric is entitled to collect a performance bonus on certain expenditures made on energy efficiency measures, reversing a ruling from the Public Utility Commission of Texas. The charges shall be collected from retail electric…
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August 15, 2013
The Michigan PSC has set reservation charges applicable to gas customer choice customers at Michigan Gas Utilities Corporation and SEMCO Energy Gas Company.
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August 13, 2013
The Maryland PSC adopted utility-offered generation rate pilots for electric vehicles at Baltimore Gas & Electric and Pepco.
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August 12, 2013
The Public Utility Commission of Texas adopted a final rule to allow customers to opt-out of having a provisioned advanced meter, which splits responsibility between the TDU and REP for various provisions under the rule.
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August 9, 2013
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC has informed retail electric providers that its compliance filing to temporarily cease billing Transition Charges under schedule TC effective August 9, 2013, under Docket No. 41610, received PUCT approval on July 19, 2013.
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August 9, 2013
The Massachusetts DPU has issued an order addressing the collection of certain default service costs in distribution rates payable by all customers, including those on competitive supply.
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August 5, 2013
A draft proposal for adoption from Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas would place the responsibility for collecting from customers the ongoing monthly charge for opting out of a communicating advanced meter on retail electric providers.
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