May 10, 2012
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Connecticut PURA Opens Docket to Review Electric Bill Charges, Including Bypassable and Nonbypassable Components
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May 7, 2012
Arizona ALJ Recommends Approval of Program to Allow Large Customers to Shop
An Arizona ALJ has recommended that a settlement at Arizona Public Service, which contains an opportunity for certain large customers to elect an alternative source of wholesale power, should be approved without modification.
May 3, 2012
Connecticut PURA: Residential Gas Choice Would Increase Distribution Rates
Expanding the unbundling of the natural gas industry to allow for residential choice in Connecticut would increase distribution rates, while any cost savings from competitive supply are "unclear," the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority said in comments to the Department of Energy and…
May 1, 2012
FERC: AEP Formula Capacity Rate "May Be Substantially Excessive"
FERC accepted for filing but suspended for five months the formula capacity rate filed rate by Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) Company, an AEP company, that would be charged to retail suppliers taking capacity under I&M's Fixed Resource Requirement plan, as FERC's preliminary analysis, "indicates that…
May 1, 2012
Ohio Power Seeks to Extend Current Capacity Charges Applied to Retail Suppliers Beyond May 31
Ohio Power Company has petitioned PUCO to maintain the tiered capacity prices applicable to retail suppliers, including the $255/MW-day charge for competitive load in the second tier, until PUCO issues a merit decision in the capacity charge case (1 0-2929-EL-UNC).
May 1, 2012
Massachusetts DPU Rules Suppliers Must Take POR if Using Complete Billing, Confirms Class-Specific Discounts
The Massachusetts DPU has ruled that retail suppliers cannot use utility consolidated billing without participating in the forthcoming purchase of receivables programs, and also affirmed that POR discount rates shall be class specific, in an interlocutory order and order on clarification (DPU 10-53)…
April 25, 2012
Pacific Gas & Electric Seeks to Offer Another Value-Added Product to Bundled Customers
Pacific Gas and Electric has applied at the California PUC to establish a Green Option Tariff, to be available to all PG&E bundled electricity customers.
April 23, 2012
Sharyland Files for Delivery Rate Increase for McAllen Territory
Sharyland Utilities, L.P. has filed to increase its unbundled delivery rates charged to REPs for residential, secondary, primary, and transmission service in its McAllen division to a level not to exceed AEP Texas Central Company's comparable average unbundled rates (40332).
April 20, 2012
Entergy Texas Competitive Generation Service Proposal is a "Long Way" from Statute, Anderson Says
The stipulated design for Entergy Texas' Competitive Generation Service (CGS) tariff has come a "long way" from the intent of the statute, PUCT Commissioner Kenneth Anderson said during a hearing yesterday, expressing disappointment concerning certain eligibility limits (38951).
April 19, 2012
Retail Supplier Seeks Elimination of PSNH Charges for Billing, Switches
PNE Energy Supply LLC, d/b/a Power New England, has petitioned the New Hampshire PUC for an order requiring modifications to Public Service of New Hampshire's Services and Schedule of Charges for Energy Service Providers, "to ensure that all small customers benefit from retail electricity…
April 19, 2012
Stipulation to Set Eligibility, Cap for Competitive Generation Service at Entergy Texas
A unanimous stipulation among parties would establish the eligibility and cap for the competitive generation service (CGS) tariff at Entergy Texas, Inc. (38951)
April 18, 2012
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The Michigan PSC authorized Michigan Consolidated Gas Company to implement, for the 12-month period from April 1, 2011 through March 31, 2012, a base gas cost recovery factor of $5.89 per thousand cubic feet.
April 17, 2012
PUCT Staff Says Transition to Retail Choice at Sharyland's Cap Rock Areas Not Dependent on Resolving Pioneer Driver Unit Configuration
The issue of whether Pioneer Natural Resources USA, Inc.'s Spraberry Driver Unit should be reconfigured from secondary meters to one or more primary meters should not be addressed as part of the transition to retail competition for the former Cap Rock service areas now part of Sharyland Utilities…
April 16, 2012
FERC Revokes Market-Based Rate Authority of Retail Supplier, 34 Others
FERC revoked the market-based rate authority of 35 "public utilities," including a retail supplier, for what FERC said was failure to file a baseline electronic market-based rate tariff as previously ordered (see prior story) .
April 13, 2012
Maryland Approves Date for Termination of Columbia Gas Choice Program
The Maryland PSC approved the end of the Columbia Gas choice program effective with the October 2012 billing cycle.
April 11, 2012
FERC Declines to Expand Case to Include Allocation of $100 Million in Overpayments by PJM Load
FERC has ordered hearing and settlement judge procedures regarding an error in PJM's calculation of Operating Reserve Lost Opportunity Cost credits paid to generators, which resulted in an overpayment of such credits funded by load, but declined to address in the instant proceeding any issues…
April 11, 2012
Delmarva Files New POR Discount Rates
Delmarva Power & Light has filed with the Maryland PSC proposed new purchase of receivables (POR) discount rates, to take effect June 1, 2012
April 11, 2012
Pepco Files New POR Discount Rates
Pepco has filed with the Maryland PSC proposed new purchase of receivables (POR) discount rates, to take effect June 1, 2012.
April 10, 2012
Calif. Draft Would Adopt Calculation to Implement Lower Direct Access Exit Fees
A California PUC comment (draft) resolution would adopt data filed by the utilities, and a methodology proposed by retail suppliers, to implement the new Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) adder as part of a modified Market Price Benchmark (MPB) used in setting exit fees applicable to direct access…
April 10, 2012
Pennsylvania PUC Seeks Comment on Role for Retail Suppliers in Electric, Natural Gas Vehicles, Schedules Forum
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission will hold a forum on May 31, 2012, in Philadelphia, to seek information from interested parties on PUC jurisdictional issues related to Alternative Fuel Vehicles (AFVs), specifically natural gas and electric vehicles.
April 9, 2012
Maryland Staff Propose Extended Transition for End of Columbia Choice Program
Maryland PSC Staff have recommended that the Columbia Gas choice program be terminated with the October 2012 billing cycle.
April 6, 2012
Texas Staff File Draft to Modify Mechanism for EECRF Charge Applicable to REPs
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed a draft proposal for publication to revise the rules governing the TDU energy efficiency obligations (Subst. R. 25.181) to, among other things, modify how the energy efficiency charge is applied to retail electric providers, and to adjust…
April 5, 2012
Retail Suppliers Protest PG&E Economic Development Proposal as Anti-Competitive
Retail suppliers and community choice aggregators have, as expected, protested Pacific Gas & Electric's proposed revisions to its electric economic development program due to the disparate treatment afforded to competitively served customers, and the allocation of costs of the program to all…
April 5, 2012
Illinois Commerce Commission Finalizes Protocols for Government Aggregations
The Illinois Commerce Commission has issued a final order regarding Commonwealth Edison's Rate GAP - Government Aggregation Protocols, including a requirement that ComEd provide to governmental aggregations lists of all retail customers, not only those on default service (Docket 11-0434).
April 3, 2012
Draft Order Would Deny Choice Incentive Mechanism at Consumers Energy, Apply Separate RDM to Choice Customers
A proposed decision in Consumers Energy's electric rate case would adopt a revenue decoupling mechanism (RDM) which differentiates between power supply and distribution revenues, and the draft would also decline to re-introduce a choice incentive mechanism at this time (U-16794).