October 15, 2010
The Pennsylvania PUC approved settlements in the 1307(f) rate investigations of UGI Central Penn Gas (R-2010-2172922) and UGI Penn Natural Gas (R-2010-2172928) which provide for the transition to mandatory direct capacity assignments to suppliers
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October 11, 2010
An Illinois ALJ has recommended that Commonwealth Edison's Purchase of Receivables discount rate be established solely as a fixed percentage discount off of a supplier's receivables, with no flat per-bill charge as proposed by ComEd (Docket 10-0138).
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October 8, 2010
The Massachusetts DPU has denied Nstar's petition to revise the adders applicable to the Nstar Green product, and will require Nstar to propose a method for calculating, and schedule for updating, its wholesale energy market price forecasts used to set the adders (Docket 10-12).
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October 6, 2010
Detroit Edison has filed with the Michigan PSC a Power Supply Cost Recovery (PSCR) plan calling for a PSCR Factor of (2.98) mills per kWh (i.e., negative 2.98 mills per kWh) in customers' bills for the period January 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011 (U-16434).
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October 6, 2010
Central Hudson has filed with the New York PSC several gas tariff amendments to clarify the daily balancing requirement and revise the monthly balancing and semi-annual settlement provisions contained in the company's retail access program. The company is proposing that these amendments become…
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October 5, 2010
Several stakeholders urged the PUCT not to adjust the design of the ERCOT System Administration Fee (SAF) ahead of potential action by the legislature in the 2011 session in response to the Sunset Commission report, while TXU Energy said that the current mechanism for charging the fee appropriately…
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October 4, 2010
The California ISO, several California generators, and the state's major investor-owned utilities have filed a settlement at FERC governing the allocation of payments required of market participants to cover defaults in the CAISO market. Several municipal utilities as well as FERC Staff have…
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October 4, 2010
PJM has filed tariff changes at FERC to eliminate from the PJM marginal loss calculation model all lower voltage facilities that PJM does not control or operate for congestion or reliability, as well as generator step-up transformers ("GSU") that are metered on the "high side" that the Market Seller…
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October 4, 2010
Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania has filed a modification to Tariff Rule No. 15 - Measurement, to provide for a BTU content adjustment to the monthly determination of a customer's billing MCFs in addition to existing adjustments for pressure and temperature (Docket R-2010-2201974 ).
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October 4, 2010
Ohio Power Company has petitioned the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to impose a new nonbypassable charge on all distribution customers to recover costs related to the earlier than expected retirement of Unit 5 at the Philip Sporn Plant (Case 10-1454-EL-RDR).
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October 4, 2010
CenterPoint Energy does not believe that the disconnect and reconnect discretionary charges for customers with provisioned advanced meters should be reduced to zero prior to the reduction of other discretionary charges, as suggested by PUCT Staff and some REPs, but has alternatively suggested that…
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October 1, 2010
A recommended decision from a Pennsylvania ALJ would approve a settlement at UGI Penn Natural Gas providing for a transition to mandatory direct assignment of capacity to retail gas suppliers based on peak day requirements, as Gateway Energy Services Corporation moved to intervene in the proceeding…
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October 1, 2010
Several competitive generators and their trade associations sought rehearing of FERC's recent station power order in Docket EL04-130 et. al., claiming that FERC misinterpreted an appeals court decision remanding a station power issue to FERC, and, "pull[ed] the rug out from under market participants…
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September 30, 2010
The PUCT approved without modification Staff's proposal for adoption to amend the Transmission Cost Recovery Factor (TCRF) rule, which will allow distribution service providers to include in their TCRF charged to REPs an adjustment that reflects the under- or over-recovered TCRF transmission costs…
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September 29, 2010
Maine PUC Finds Large Customers Not Subject to Fee for Ocean-based Long-Term Supply Contracts
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September 28, 2010
National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation has filed with the New York PSC several proposed changes to its cash-out policies.
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