March 29, 2012
The Maine PUC ordered Bangor Hydro-Electric to remove certain language regarding the extension of a contract between a customer and the BHE-selected retail supplier offering dynamic pricing, but otherwise approved the BHE dynamic rate trial which will be conducted through a competitive supplier…
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March 22, 2012
Central Maine Power will be required to offer a dynamically priced Standard Offer option, served by a retail supplier, under an order from the Maine PUC (2010-132).
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March 19, 2012
Direct Energy has launched several new dynamic pricing products for residential customers at PPL Electric Utilities.
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March 19, 2012
Baltimore Gas & Electric and Pepco-Maryland will make their critical peak rebate programs available to all distribution customers within eligible customer classes, not only Standard Offer Service customers, under a consensus program design contained in a Maryland dynamic pricing working group report…
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March 8, 2012
The legal status of electric vehicle public charging stations is a key unresolved issue and will require legislation to clarify, says the Illinois Commerce Commission's Plug-In Electric Vehicle Initiative Report .
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March 8, 2012
A report from two Maine hearing examiners would direct Bangor Hydro-Electric to remove certain language regarding the extension of a contract between a customer and the BHE-selected retail supplier offering dynamic pricing, but otherwise endorses the BHE dynamic rate trial which will be conducted…
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March 2, 2012
BGE Enters Castlebridge Energy, Other Suppliers into XML Testing
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March 2, 2012
The threshold for mandatory hourly pricing for default service customers at Orange and Rockland Utilities would decrease under a joint proposal from O&R, New York PSC Staff, and the New York Division of Consumer Protection (Case 11-E-0408).
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February 17, 2012
The District of Columbia PSC opened Formal Case 1096 to review issues related to electric vehicles.
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February 14, 2012
Non-utility stakeholders have not expressed interest in submitting a proposal for Maryland's electric vehicle pilot program, a final working group report said.
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February 8, 2012
The Delaware PSC has approved a settlement which contemplates that Delmarva Power will introduce dynamic pricing for all SOS residential customers by June 2013 (Docket 09-311).
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January 31, 2012
PECO has issued an RFP to select an electric generation supplier to offer PECO's dynamic pricing program for generation supply, which is required under Act 129.
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January 25, 2012
dPi Energy has launched a "Free Sundays" prepaid electric plan for customers with provisioned advanced meters.
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January 13, 2012
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio is seeking comments on whether electric distribution utilities (EDUs) and/or competitive retail electric service (CRES) providers should offer pricing options for all consumers with advanced or interval meters that reflect the time-varying prices in wholesale…
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January 12, 2012
The Pennsylvania PUC Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement does not oppose the implementation of a reconciliation rider as a means of recovering proper transmission service and generation supply service charges, but said that a proposed rider from PPL Electric Utilities would recover "improper"…
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January 4, 2012
Maine PUC Advisory Staff has requested comment on a number of different issues related to the design and operation of possible Central Maine Power dynamic pricing programs (Docket No. 2010-132).
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December 21, 2011
The New York PSC has approved a voluntary Time of Use generation rate option for Service Classification No. 2 - Non-Demand (SC2-ND) customers at Niagara Mohawk.
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December 19, 2011
Pennsylvania electric distribution companies (EDCs) will be required to "contemplate" the use of semi-annual or annual reconciliations of default service costs under their next default service plans, in addition to the current quarterly reconciliations, the Pennsylvania PUC directed in a final order…
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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
The Pennsylvania PUC yesterday voted to issue final recommendations to electric distribution companies (EDCs) concerning the structure of their next default service plan filings, such that the filings, to the extent possible, do not preclude any market design changes that the PUC may ultimately…
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December 8, 2011
New Jersey will "consider" expanding dynamic pricing under its final energy master plan .
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December 7, 2011
Parties File Pre-hearing Memos Regarding PPL TOU Generation Mechanism
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December 6, 2011
"[M]ore than half of U.S. states allow retail competition for large industrial or commercial customers, [but] few today have competitive electricity retail markets at the residential level," says a new report by MIT.
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December 5, 2011
New York PSC Staff have recommended lowering the current mandatory hourly pricing cutoff for default service customers at Orange & Rockland, and also recommended changes in the pricing of capacity (11-E-0408).
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November 17, 2011
TXU Energy has launched a new residential Time of Use product tailored for customers with electric vehicles or distributed solar generation.
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