December 5, 2012
Several direct access (DA) parties in California have petitioned the California PUC for a rulemaking relating to nonbypassable charges and utility generation and procurement cost allocation issues in light of certain directives contained in SB 790.
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December 4, 2012
The Public Utility Commission of Texas adopted interest rates, applicable to retail electric providers and utilities, for over-billings and under-billings and for customer deposits for calendar year 2013.
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December 4, 2012
Equitable Gas Company, LLC has filed at the sPennsylvania PUC the proposed level for the bypassable Gas Procurement Charge, reflecting certain supply-related procurement costs unbundled from base rates, and the bypassable Merchant Function Charge, reflecting supply-related uncollectibles unbundled…
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December 3, 2012
Parties have filed an unopposed stipulation to establish reduced discretionary service charges applicable to retail electric providers at Oncor.
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November 29, 2012
FERC approved a settlement between its Office of Enforcement and PacifiCorp to resolve Enforcement's non-public investigation of conduct by PacifiCorp Transmission Services (PTS) and PacifiCorp's marketing function, Commercial and Trading (C&T), that, "potentially violated PacifiCorp's open access…
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November 29, 2012
Dominion East Ohio (DEO) has filed at PUCO to revise its General Terms and Conditions of Energy Choice Pooling Service, including the Energy Choice Pooling Service Agreement, to reflect supplier recommendations and conform to existing practices.
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November 29, 2012
Texas Industrial Energy Consumers (TIEC) petitioned the Public Utility Commission of Texas to adopt a Competitive Generation Service (CGS) program tariff at Entergy Texas after negotiations between TIEC and Entergy failed to reach a consensus program tariff.
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November 27, 2012
Two interrelated draft decisions recently issued by the California PUC would grant retail natural gas suppliers at Pacific Gas & Electric a modicum of relief regarding the cost of capacity assigned by Pacific Gas & Electric, but would deny marketers' request for an opt-out of certain capacity…
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November 26, 2012
PJM has filed a settlement at FERC to revise the Cost of New Entry (CONE) in the capacity market, with the revisions higher than an earlier PJM proposal from December 2011, and also generally higher than current values.
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November 26, 2012
West Penn Power has posted updated Prices to Compare for the three-month period beginning December 1, 2012
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November 26, 2012
Staff of the Maryland PSC have recommended that the Commission adopt a four-year amortization of IT implementation costs related to Washington Gas Light purchase of receivables, which results in the updated discount rate for residential receivables being cut by 70% versus the filed updated rate.
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November 15, 2012
Philadelphia Gas Works has filed at the Pennsylvania PUC to unbundle certain natural gas procurement costs into a bypassable Gas Procurement Charge (GPC) and unbundle supply-related uncollectibles into a bypassable Merchant Function Charge.
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November 14, 2012
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed proposed interest rates, applicable to retail electric providers and utilities, for over-billings and under-billings and for customer deposits for calendar year 2013.
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November 14, 2012
National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC a tariff to unbundle certain gas procurement charges from distribution rates, for inclusion in the bypassable Price to Compare.
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November 13, 2012
Washington Gas Light has filed updates to its prior proposed increases in the purchase of receivables discount rates with the Maryland PSC, and while the newly updated rates are lower, the residential discount rate which results under the current tariff still approaches 6%
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November 12, 2012
A draft California PUC decision would adopt 2013 Power Charges for the Department of Water Resources (DWR), and would also set the 2013 DWR Bond Charge.
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November 7, 2012
A recommended decision from a Pennsylvania ALJ would deny a proposal from Equitable Gas to implement a purchase of receivables program because, "there is no documented level of interest in participating in a POR program by any NGS's [natural gas suppliers] in Equitable's service territory."
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November 1, 2012
FERC dismissed, as unsupported, a complaint brought against the California ISO by Shell Energy North America regarding the definition of "complete and accurate" meter data, as Shell had said that the lack of a clear definition had led to a breakdown in the integrity of the grid-wide settlement…
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November 1, 2012
Commonwealth Edison has petitioned the Illinois Commerce Commission for expedited approval of modifications to ComEd's Rate GAP – Government Aggregation Protocols (Rate GAP), including the provision of the account numbers of customers already on competitive supply to government aggregators.
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October 29, 2012
FERC has approved tariff revisions from the California ISO which grant additional mitigation authority related to exceptional dispatch, and FERC also referred behavior intended to be curbed by the tariff revisions to its Office of Enforcement for formal investigation.
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October 29, 2012
Delmarva Power has filed with the Maryland PSC new residential and Type I SOS rates for the period beginning June 1, 2013, and new Type II SOS rates for the period beginning December 1, 2012.
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October 26, 2012
The Public Utility Commission of Texas yesterday conditionally approved Entergy Texas' application to transfer the operational control of its transmission assets to the Midwest ISO.
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October 26, 2012
In a recently filed rate case at the Pennsylvania PUC, Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania has filed a proposed tariff to implement a bypassable Gas Procurement Charge, a mechanism required by the PUC to unbundle certain supply costs from base rates.
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October 19, 2012
The New York PSC approved, as proposed by NYSEG, the consolidation of NYSEG's remaining two Gas Supply Areas (GSAs) into a single GSA, and the adoption a system-wide weighted average cost of capacity (WACOC) for the release of capacity to ESCOs (09-G-0716).
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October 19, 2012
The discount rate for receivables purchased by Nicor Gas under its proposed POR program would be 1.5%.
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