August 20, 2012
The Public Utility Commission of Texas on Friday ruled that the Energy Efficiency Cost Recovery Factor (EECRF) charged to retail electric providers shall be system-wide, and applicable across an entire TDU territory, as opposed to implementing multiple, city-specific EECRFs within the same TDU area.
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August 17, 2012
AEP Ohio has filed a tariff reflecting new default service charges under its recently adopted electric security plan.
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August 15, 2012
Detroit Edison has filed at the Michigan PSC to offer a pilot flat bill (termed fixed bill by Detroit Edison) program to residential customers.
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August 13, 2012
Parties have reached a settlement to establish a new level for the reservation charge applicable to choice customers at Michigan Gas Utilities Corporation (MGUC)
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August 10, 2012
PECO has filed at the Pennsylvania PUC to increase its electric Transmission Service Charge (TSC) on October 1, 2012, versus the customary January 1, 2013 revision, to avoid accumulating a large under-collection and to avoid a larger increase come January.
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August 10, 2012
Texas retail electric providers and several cities with original jurisdiction are seeking to reverse a Public Utility Commission of Texas preliminary order, in order to continue the use of a system-wide Energy Efficiency Cost Recovery Factor (EECRF) applicable across an entire TDU territory, as…
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August 9, 2012
A settlement in Peoples Natural Gas Company's Pennsylvania rate case would establish the level of the new, bypassable Gas Procurement Charge (R-2012-2285985).
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August 7, 2012
A non-unanimous stipulation filed by several parties in Texas would condition Entergy Texas Inc.'s transfer of operational control of its transmission assets to the Midwest ISO on the membership status of the other Entergy operating companies (Docket 40346).
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August 6, 2012
NYSEG has proposed consolidating its remaining two Gas Supply Areas (GSAs) into a single GSA, and adopting a system-wide weighted average cost of capacity (WACOC) for the release of capacity to ESCOs, in a report on a NYSEG and Rochester Gas & Electric gas supply collaborative filed with the New…
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July 30, 2012
Potomac Edison has filed Type II SOS rates for the three-month period beginning September 1, 2012:
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July 26, 2012
Shell Energy North America (US), L.P. has filed a complaint at FERC asking the Commission to, among other things, institute an investigation into the integrity of the settlement process administered by the California ISO.
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July 25, 2012
A California PUC draft decision (R. 08-12-009) would extend the advanced metering customer privacy protections previously adopted in D.11-07-056 for investor-owned electric utilities to the residential and small commercial customers of electric service providers (ESPs), and to the customers of…
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July 18, 2012
Indiana Michigan Power's (AEP) approach to establish a state compensation mechanism for capacity provided to retail suppliers under the Fixed Resource Requirement is "reasonable," Michigan PSC Staff said in testimony, though Staff did recommend a minor reduction in the nonbypassable capacity costs.
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July 18, 2012
UGI Utilities- Gas Division, UGI Central Penn Gas, and UGI Penn Natural Gas have each filed at the Pennsylvania PUC to unbundle certain gas procurement costs from base rates and to include these costs in the bypassable Price to Compare (PTC), as directed by a prior PUC rulemaking.
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July 12, 2012
Granting a complaint filed by FirstEnergy Solutions Corp., FERC ordered PJM to revise its rules governing the Auction Revenue Right (ARR) allocation process for transmission facilities that have been modeled as out-of-service for the entire year but which return to service for one or more months…
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July 10, 2012
Connecticut should examine, "whether additional unbundling is necessary to separate out the full retail costs to the utility of providing 24/7 no-notice, last resort [electric] standard service," the National Energy Marketers Association said in comments to PURA (12-05-04).
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July 10, 2012
Peoples Natural Gas Company LLC would begin recovering additional costs of gas supply outside of base delivery rates under a settlement filed with the Pennsylvania PUC (R-2012-2292082 et al.).
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July 9, 2012
Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company (Unitil) has filed at the Massachusetts DPU to implement a change to its default service tariff regarding costs included in the default service reconciliation (Docket 12-42).
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July 5, 2012
A California PUC proposed decision would deny Pacific Gas & Electric's request to provide certain small non-residential customer classes with the ability to opt for a flat rate in lieu of mandatory Time of Use (TOU) rates (A. 09-02-022).
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July 5, 2012
Michigan Gas Utilities Corporation has filed to return an over-recovery under its reservation charge to Gas Cost Recovery (GCR) customers only, for the 12-month period ended March 31, 2012 (U-16481-R).
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July 3, 2012
The New Jersey electric distribution companies have filed a proposed Basic Generation Service (BGS) procurement plan that includes the lowering of the threshold for hourly priced default service.
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July 2, 2012
Texas-New Mexico Power Company has filed an application to reduce certain meter-related Discretionary Charges charged to retail electric providers in its Tariff for Retail Delivery Services.
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July 2, 2012
A single paragraph in a FERC order regarding a complaint by DC Energy against PJM may, "unnecessarily restrict the ability of market participants to engage in physical forward transactions," the Financial Institutions Energy Group (FIEG) warned in a request for clarification concerning the…
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June 19, 2012
Michigan Consolidated Gas Company has filed at the Michigan PSC a number of changes to the natural gas choice program.
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June 18, 2012
Delmarva Power & Light has filed with the Maryland PSC a revised set of proposed new purchase of receivables (POR) discount rates.
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