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December 20, 2010
The California PUC has adopted a final decision which sets the core brokerage fee at Pacific Gas & Electric at $0.025 per decatherm, effective January 1, 2011, and remaining in effect until PG&E's next cost allocation proceeding is resolved (A.09-05-026).
December 20, 2010
The Small Customer Marketer Coalition has raised new concerns regarding revised imbalance procedures at National Fuel Gas Distribution in New York, specifically regarding the components used in the index price for cash-outs (10-G-0474).
December 17, 2010
FERC Approves FirstEnergy-Allegheny Merger In an unsurprising decision given its merger review history, FERC approved the merger of FirstEnergy Corp. and Allegheny Energy without any conditions relating to mitigation of market power. In doing so, FERC rejected protests from the Pennsylvania Office…
December 17, 2010
The New York PSC instituted a proceeding to review Lost And Unaccounted For gas at Consolidated Edison, and also instituted a review of stranded natural gas capacity costs at New York State Electric and Gas.
December 16, 2010
Md. PSC Eliminates Minimum Stay in BGE Gas Tariff The Maryland PSC approved Baltimore Gas & Electric's revisions to its Gas Service Tariff to remove a provision from Rate Schedules C and D that required customers to remain with a supplier for at least three months prior to switching to another…
December 16, 2010
As first reported in our live blog yesterday, the Maryland PSC has suspended Baltimore Gas & Electric's electric purchase of receivables tariff revisions relating to sales tax, and directed the supplier coordination working group to address the issues ( 12/14 ).
December 16, 2010
As first reported in our live blog yesterday, the Illinois Commerce Commission has approved tariffs to institute utility consolidated billing and Purchase of Receivables at Commonwealth Edison.
December 15, 2010
BlueStar Energy Services, Inc. has petitioned the Illinois Commerce Commission to rule on several pending motions in its complaint against Ameren concerning the rescission period.
December 15, 2010
A recommended decision in Niagara Mohawk's rate case needs to reconcile disparate treatment of true-ups for the Merchant Function Charge (MFC) paid by full service customers and the POR discount rate, New York PSC Staff said in a brief on exceptions (10-E-0050). Staff did not opine on its preference…
December 14, 2010
PPL Electric Utilities has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC its final calculation of its 2011 Transmission Service Charge for the period January 1, 2011 through May 31, 2011 (M-2010-2207826).
December 14, 2010
Maryland PSC Staff have recommended deferring action on Baltimore Gas & Electric's revised electric Purchase of Receivables tariff, addressing tax issues, so that a working group may address several Staff concerns. Staff is concerned that the filed tariff could allow BGE to earn an unintended profit…
December 14, 2010
United Illuminating is seeking to move the recovery of the Generation Service Charge (GSC) Administrative Adder from the bypassable Generation Service Charge rate component to the Non-Bypassable Federally Mandated Congestion Charge (NBFMCC) rate component (10-08-01).
December 13, 2010
Staff of the New York Public Service Commission has proposed lowering the cutoff for mandatory hourly pricing at Orange & Rockland to 300 kW from the current 500 kW cutoff. Staff's recommendation came in testimony in O&R's electric rate case (10-E-0362).
December 13, 2010
Allegheny Power has filed an annual tariff update containing a lower residential Purchase of Receivables discount rate in Maryland, but which also includes higher rates for commercial customers.
December 10, 2010
PUCT Staff have filed a proposal for adoption which would institute a distribution cost recovery factor (DCRF) to be charged to REPs, and would shorten the notice to REPs of the new rate under the DCRF from 45 days to 35 days (38298).
December 8, 2010
National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation has filed further revisions to its imbalance and cash-out procedures with the New York PSC, adding a "safe harbor" provision to the pricing of imbalances.
December 6, 2010
Two Texas ALJs have recommended that the PUCT deny CenterPoint Energy's alternative cost recovery mechanism which would have significantly raised the fixed customer charge for residential customers. The proposal was an alternative to CenterPoint’s original request for a Distribution Cost Recovery…
December 3, 2010
The Pennsylvania PUC approved PPL Electric's optional Time of Use (TOU) generation tariff as filed for the period January 1, 2011 through May 31, 2013.
December 3, 2010
The Michigan PSC has directed the electric distribution utilities to file specific tariffs governing the participation of retail customers in RTO markets, but delayed the filing of such tariffs until further orders from FERC regarding participation of aggregators of retail customers (ARCs), which…
December 3, 2010
Illinois Commerce Commission Acting Chairman Manuel Flores pressed intervenors yesterday during oral arguments regarding Commonwealth Edison's Purchase of Receivables tariff regarding what form of cost recovery would lead to more robust residential choice.
December 3, 2010
In a non-binding poll, Pennsylvania PUC Commissioners unanimously endorsed an ALJ's recommendation regarding the treatment of uncollectibles under PPL Electric's Purchase of Receivables program, including rejecting the Retail Energy Supply Association's proposal ( 9/7 ) to institute a nonbypassable…
December 1, 2010
Entergy Texas, Inc. filed an unopposed motion to sever issues related to Competitive Generation Service (CGS) from the remaining settled issues in Docket 37744, addressing Entergy's rates and reconciled fuel costs. Entergy said that parties active in the Competitive Generation Service discussions…
November 30, 2010
New York State Electric & Gas Corporation petitioned FERC for rehearing of the Commission's October 28 order denying NYSEG's request to rebill certain charges dating back 10 years to correct metering errors from both NYSEG and Niagara Mohawk (EL09-26).
November 30, 2010
Citizens Choice Energy Formally Announces N.Y. Service Citizens Choice Energy, LLC formally announced its launching of New York service yesterday. Citizens Choice Energy has been offering service in New York for several months, initially offering gas service at Consolidated Edison. A standard form…
November 29, 2010
Increasing the costs of distribution service which are recovered through a fixed customer charge, rather than a volumetric charge, at Texas-New Mexico Power will not have a material impact on the design or structure of the products that REPs offer customers, TNMP contended in rebuttal testimony in…
