December 16, 2011
The New York PSC approved tariffs at Niagara Mohawk to allow SC-3 Customers with demands below the 250 kW threshold and SC-2 Demand Customers to voluntarily elect hourly pricing for commodity supply from NiMo.
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December 16, 2011
As part of the Pennsylvania PUC's request for comments on the intermediate retail market workplan (see related story today) , Commissioner James Cawley has sought comment on the charges imposed on electric generation suppliers for obtaining historical usage from the utilities.
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December 9, 2011
PUCT Commission Advising has filed a draft preliminary order addressing a list of issues concerning Sharyland Utilities' proposal to transition the four former Cap Rock service areas to retail competition (39592).
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December 2, 2011
PJM has filed several proposed tariff changes with FERC, the principal design of which are to increase capacity prices in the Reliability Pricing Model.
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December 2, 2011
The California PUC adopted as final new rules governing security requirements applicable to electric service providers, and adjustments to the Market Price Benchmark (MPB) used to determine the nonbypassable indifference charges assigned to customers leaving bundled utility service (Rulemaking 07-05…
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December 1, 2011
The PUCT this morning set the 2012 interest rate apllicable to REPs. Texas electric customers who are over-billed will be paid 0.22 percent interest in 2012, while customers will receive 0.12 percent interest on deposits with REPs.
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December 1, 2011
The Pennsylvania PUC will continue to work on standardizing natural gas distribution companies' (NGDC) supplier coordination tariffs, but will do so in a new rulemaking as the current rulemaking was approaching its automatic withdrawal date (L-2009-2069117).
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November 30, 2011
PJM has filed tariff changes with FERC to implement, as required by FERC, periodic audits of a market participant's risk management policies by PJMSettlement.
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November 30, 2011
Pioneer Natural Resources USA, Inc., an exploration and production company, has sought to make, "[i]ssues related to the manner in which retail electric providers ('REP') offer service upon the initiation of unbundling in Sharyland's service area and as Sharyland's unbundled service matures," part…
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November 28, 2011
FERC accepted but suspended the California ISO's tariffs to eliminate convergence bidding at intertie locations, finding that the proposal may be unjust, unreasonable, unduly discriminatory, or preferential, and ordered a technical conference (ER11-4580).
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November 23, 2011
A proposed order from a Michigan ALJ would conclude that Michigan Gas Utilities Corporation's proposed level for a reservation charge applicable to choice customers, "is the simplest and fairest method to allocate the cost of providing reliable service to each customer class."
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November 21, 2011
Baltimore Gas & Electric has asked the Maryland PSC to approve, on a temporary basis, lower late payment charge factors for electric and gas service, due to a transition to a new billing system.
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November 18, 2011
Duquesne Light has filed updated default service rate information for the period beginning January 1, 2012.
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November 16, 2011
A draft California PUC decision (A. 11-06-004) would require Pacific Gas and Electric to file a petition for modification of the decision establishing its Power Charge Indifference Amount (PCIA) for 2012 within 60 days of the issuance of a decision in R.07-05-025, where changes to the methodology…
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November 14, 2011
The Pennsylvania PUC approved new electric default service rates at UGI Utilities, effective for the three-month period starting December 1, 2011.
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November 11, 2011
The PUCT is not authorized to allow TDUs to charge REPs for lost TDU revenues as a result of the TDU's statutorily required energy efficiency programs, and the Commission appropriately declined to grant the TDUs such a Lost Revenue Adjustment Mechanism (LRAM), the Third Court of Appeals of Texas…
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November 8, 2011
The New York ISO has asked FERC for more time to develop additional market power mitigation measures that NYISO believes are required as part of implementing new local capacity zones, as directed by a recent FERC order.
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November 3, 2011
UGI Utilities. Inc. - Gas Division will commence its Purchase of Receivables program on December 1, 2011 (P-2009-2145498).
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October 27, 2011
The PUCT, with several clarifying revisions, adopted Staff's latest proposal for adoption for amendments to customer protection rules and the retail delivery tariff relating to advanced meters (38674).
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October 27, 2011
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio accepted tariffs from AEP Ohio eliminating all POLR charges from current rates effective with the first billing cycle of November 2011.
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October 27, 2011
The Maryland PSC yesterday took under advisement the future of the Columbia Gas choice program, declining to issue from the bench an order on Columbia's recommendation to cease the program and suppliers' proposal to continue the program.
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October 25, 2011
PUCT Staff have proposed language for a worksheet to accompany the standard Prepaid Disclosure Statement, which is meant to inform customers of non-recurring TDU charges associated with initiating service without listing the fees on the disclosure statement itself (39357).
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October 21, 2011
Electric choice customers in Michigan, "must be expected to help shoulder the burden" of certain utility generation costs for assets, "that must stand ready to serve Choice customers again," the Michigan PSC said in an order in Detroit Edison's rate case (U-16472).
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October 20, 2011
Stanford University has requested that the California PUC modify Decision 03-04-030 to clarify that loads that were served by customer generation prior to February 1, 2001 and that subsequently switch to direct access (DA) service are only obligated to pay DA cost responsibility surcharges (CRS)…
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October 19, 2011
Public Service Company of New Hampshire has filed updated projections of its 2012 energy (default) service rate, and the alternative default energy service rate, to reflect costs of the Merrimack Scrubber Project which are now known.
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