November 11, 2011
During a retail markets hearing yesterday, Pennsylvania PUC Commissioner James Cawley asked stakeholders whether the default order of retail electric offers on PA Power Switch should be modified.
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October 18, 2011
The Ontario Energy Board has issued new Regulated Price Plan (RPP) electricity commodity prices for the period November 1, 2011 through April 30, 2012.
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October 17, 2011
The Pennsylvania PUC has tentatively ordered the electric distribution companies (EDCs) to consider semi-annual electric default service rate adjustments for mass market customers rather than the current quarterly adjustments (I-2011-2237952).
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October 14, 2011
The Pennsylvania PUC will issue for comment intermediate recommendations from the PUC's Office of Competitive Markets Oversight (OCMO) that are intended to serve as guidance to the electric distribution companies (EDCs) in developing the format and structure of their upcoming default service plans.
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October 12, 2011
Reliant will use 12 homes in Houston as a laboratory to evaluate a suite of smart energy tools and services, dubbed Reliant Innovation Avenue.
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October 7, 2011
The Illinois Commerce Commission has developed a list of five specific issues to be addressed by a plug-in electric vehicle working group, including developing a petition to the Commission to clarify the legal status of public charging stations, and various EV rate options.
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October 3, 2011
Major Energy Services said that its decision to exit the Ohio natural gas market results from a shift in business strategy to focus on markets with advanced metering technology.
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September 29, 2011
Reversing a draft order, the Connecticut PURA has elected to not expand mandatory Time of Use generation rates to all default service customers at United Illuminating as originally proposed.
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September 28, 2011
PPL Electric Utilities has filed to revise its Time of Use (TOU) generation rate design, with a proposed effective date of March 1, 2012. PPL also proposed including prior TOU under-collections in its sought nonbypassable rider.
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September 28, 2011
Direct Energy has launched a "Free Power Saturday" product at PPL, offering generation supply at 0 cents per kWh for usage on Saturdays.
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September 20, 2011
Niagara Mohawk has filed tariff sheets to offer voluntary Time of Use (TOU) electric commodity pricing for SC-2 Non-Demand customers.
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September 9, 2011
Exelon Announces Management for Competitive Business Post-Merger Exelon today announced the senior executives that will be reporting directly to President and CEO Christopher Crane following completion of the proposed Exelon-Constellation merger.
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September 1, 2011
FERC Orders NYISO to Share Confidential Market Participant Data
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September 1, 2011
Penn Power has posted updated Prices to Compare for the three-month period beginning September 1.
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August 31, 2011
Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection Commissioner Daniel Esty has formally requested that the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority suspend PURA's two dockets concerning advanced meter implementation at Connecticut Light and Power and United Illuminating, claiming that…
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August 30, 2011
A draft Connecticut PURA decision would deny Connecticut Light & Power's application for full deployment of advanced meters, concluding such deployment would result in net costs to customers (05-10-03RE04).
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August 26, 2011
"I do not believe it is an exaggeration to say that PPL's TOU [Time of Use] offerings have been a complete debacle since being implemented," Pennsylvania PUC Chairman Robert Powelson said in a statement accompanying an order regarding the reconciliation of PPL's Generation Supply Charge-1 Rider…
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August 25, 2011
The Retail Energy Supply Association petitioned the New York PSC to institute a new proceeding to examine and consider the issues raised in the Consolidated Edison rate ready utility consolidated billing collaborative.
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August 12, 2011
A draft Connecticut PURA decision would require Connecticut Light and Power to modify the method for calculating the generation rates that are assessed under the optional Variable Peak Pricing (VPP) tariff, since the current method has resulted in on-peak rates below standard rates as well as…
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August 9, 2011
The Connecticut PURA issued a draft decision which would require the expansion of mandatory Time of Use (TOU) generation rates to all default service customers at United Illuminating, and which would also expand optional Variable Peak Pricing to all customers (05-06-04RE06).
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August 8, 2011
Reliant Energy has launched a product, for residential customers with provisioned advanced meters, offering customers cash-back for usage during nights and weekends.
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August 2, 2011
Respond Power has modified its dynamic rate product for customers at PPL Electric Utilities, now providing rewards for residential and commercial customers who reduce usage in response to alerts in addition to the previously offered rebates which were not tied to specific load reductions.
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July 19, 2011
The Retail Energy Supply Association has submitted a response to a working group report from Consolidated Edison regarding an evaluation of modifications to ConEd's rate ready billing system to permit ESCOs to use rate ready billing for dynamic and demand-based rates (09-E-0428).
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July 18, 2011
The Illinois Commerce Commission Initiative on Plug-In Electric Vehicles is seeking comments on a series of regulatory and legal issues related to plug-in electric vehicles, and will hold a policy committee meeting on August 23rd in Chicago to discuss the responses.
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July 15, 2011
The California PUC approved a decision yesterday under which, except in limited circumstances, electric vehicle service providers operating in residential settings shall be served under the otherwise applicable residential rates (Docket R.09-08-009).
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