March 8, 2011
Several direct access parties have petitioned the California PUC for an immediate ruling to stay any changes to the Power Charge Indifference Amount (PCIA) calculation at Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric until a final decision by the PUC regarding direct access exit fees (R.…
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March 7, 2011
Retail gas suppliers could begin serving customers in what are currently the Kokomo Gas and Fuel and the Northern Indiana Fuel and Light Company Inc. territories in Indiana within two months as the operating companies are merged into affiliate Northern Indiana Public Service Company and opened to…
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March 7, 2011
An Illinois ALJ would direct Ameren to revise its electric tariff with respect to the rescission period to apply a three day rescission period for internet enrollments of mass market customers, rather than the 10-day period provided for in the tariff, under a proposed order issued Friday (Docket…
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March 4, 2011
Using anything short of a five-year amortization period for Washington Gas Light's purchase of receivables program costs would create an, "unnecessarily high risk that suppliers active in residential markets would either not enter the residential market or forego using the utility’s billing services…
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March 2, 2011
Dominion East Ohio has submitted a notice of intent to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to continue with the next phase of its exit from the merchant function.
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March 1, 2011
Met-Ed, Penelec, and Penn Power have posted updated Prices to Compare for the three-month period beginning March 1, 2011 as follows:
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February 24, 2011
Pepco has filed further revisions to its SOS rates for District of Columbia customers for the period beginning June 1, 2011 (FC 1017).
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February 22, 2011
Washington Gas Light has filed revised District of Columbia tariff changes to Rate Schedule No. 3 (Interruptible Sales Service), Rate Schedule No. 3A (Interruptible Delivery Service) and Rate Schedule No. 6 (Small Commercial Aggregation Pilot), which WGL said are designed to ensure that competitive…
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February 21, 2011
BlueStar Energy Services has filed a complaint for expedited declaratory relief at the Illinois Commerce Commission, seeking a declaration that Commonwealth Edison's recently filed Purchase of Receivables tariff, "does not conflict with, and is not intended to, override an existing administrative…
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February 17, 2011
Consistent with an earlier default service plan settlement, Penn Power submitted a revised supplier coordination tariff at the Pennsylvania PUC to implement a non-recourse Purchase of Receivables program (P-2010-2157862).
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February 16, 2011
Pepco has filed further revisions to its proposed SOS rates in the District of Columbia for the period beginning June 1, 2011, to reflect revised cash working capital costs included in the rates.
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February 16, 2011
Illinois Commerce Commission Staff have filed an emergency motion for clarification of the Commission's February 9 Amendatory Order regarding Commonwealth Edison's Purchase of Receivables program, asking that the current discount rate continue to apply until the ICC clarifies several conflicting…
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February 15, 2011
BlueStar Energy Services has filed a complaint against Commonwealth Edison and Ameren at the Illinois Commerce Commission seeking an order finding that the utilities have violated 220 ILCS 5/16-118(e) by failing to file a tariff to implement Purchase of Uncollectibles as required by statute (Docket…
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February 14, 2011
PJM has filed its expected tariff changes at FERC to "reform" the capacity market Minimum Offer Price Rule so that it can be applied to protect $2 billion in capacity payments that is expected to be paid to generators absent action (or potential action) for new capacity to be built under long-term…
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February 9, 2011
A settlement among several parties would approve Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania's petition to convert its accounting methodology for gas storage inventory from an annual Last-in, First-out (LIFO) methodology to a weighted average cost of gas (WACOG) methodology with several clarifications…
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February 9, 2011
Columbia Gas of Ohio has petitioned PUCO to delay the necessary posting of deposits for new winning SSO suppliers until the service start date of April 1, 2011 ( see related story for auction results ).
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February 8, 2011
Ohio Power and Columbus Southern Power have filed tariffs at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to establish new market rate schedules for customers returning to utility-provided generation service after having elected competitive supply and opting to bypass the POLR charge.
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February 4, 2011
PUCT Commissioners agreed to adopt provisions in a proposal for decision relating to the customer charge at CenterPoint Energy, in voting on a final order in CenterPoint's rate case (Docket 38339).
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February 1, 2011
Several market participants believe that the amount of new direct access load available under Phase Three of the limited re-opening of direct access in California was hit essentially upon the Notice of Transfer period opening yesterday morning. Phase Three allotments are for direct access service…
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January 31, 2011
Ohio Power's proposed electric security plan is designed to eliminate the "free ride" enjoyed by competitive suppliers and decrease migration in the AEP Ohio territories, AEP CEO Michael Morris said during an earnings call Friday.
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January 28, 2011
Pa. PUC Approves West Penn Power POR, Supplier Tariff The Pennsylvania PUC approved West Penn Power's (Allegheny) updated supplier coordination tariff, which includes a new POR program. Specific details of the POR program and other revisions under the approved supplier tariff may be found in our…
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January 28, 2011
Yesterday, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio issued a further order regarding the credit to be paid to Columbus Southern Power customers as a result of the determination that Columbus Southern Power over-earned under the application of the Significantly Excessive Earnings Test (SEET), but the…
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January 26, 2011
Michigan Gas Utilities Corporation has sought approval from the Michigan PSC (U-16513) to implement a Reservation Surcharge applicable to both non-shopping Gas Cost Recovery (GCR) customers and Gas Choice Customers (GCC).
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January 25, 2011
The New York PSC has approved a revision in the commodity price points and weightings used to price Winter Bundled Sales (WBS) Service at Central Hudson Gas & Electric (10-G-0541).
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January 25, 2011
Maryland PSC Staff have recommended that increased SOS rates at Pepco and Delmarva, to reflect higher cash working capital costs, be allowed to take effect February 1, 2011, provided that the utilities keep a detailed and accurate account of all amounts received under the rate increase to facilitate…
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