July 12, 2011
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (formerly the DPUC) is holding a working group meeting today on Docket No. 10-06-24, regarding electric consumer protection measures, and incorporation of recent legislation into the standards.
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July 5, 2011
Pepco is planning to use hourly data for load settlement with suppliers in the PJM marketplace by the, "latter part of 2013," it informed the District of Columbia PSC (FC 1017).
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June 27, 2011
Extending Commonwealth Edison's residential real-time pricing program (RRTP) for another 10 years would result in significant net costs to ComEd customers as a whole, as well as ComEd residential customers, according to a report by Navigant.
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June 21, 2011
Reliant Energy has launched a solar leasing program and two excess distributed generation buyback products for renewable power.
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June 20, 2011
The threshold for mandatory hourly pricing for default service at Orange & Rockland Utilities will decrease from 500 kW to 300 kW under a stipulation incorporated into a final written order in O&R's New York rate case (10-E-0362).
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June 17, 2011
The New York PSC approved Niagara Mohawk's implementation plan to expand the cutoff for Mandatory Hourly Pricing for default electric service to 250 kW (10-E-0050).
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June 15, 2011
The Pennsylvania PUC approved West Penn Power's modified dynamic pricing program as contained in a settlement, with direction to clarify when a reconciliation charge will apply to non-residential customers who have taken Critical Peak Pricing (P-2011-2218683 et. al.).
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June 9, 2011
The status quo default service model and retail market design is "unacceptable," Pennsylvania PUC Chairman Robert Powelson said at the conclusion of an en banc hearing regarding alternative methods of default service.
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June 8, 2011
A draft of New Jersey's updated energy master plan calls for the state to, "gradually expose customers with lower energy demands to dynamic pricing."
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June 6, 2011
The District of Columbia PSC has sought stakeholder input regarding the potential integration of dynamic pricing and the Standard Offer Service procurement for electric generation services, and the opportunities available to alternative retail electricity suppliers to provide dynamic pricing…
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May 23, 2011
Of the Rochester Gas & Electric customers to be newly exposed to hourly default service over a two-year phase-in ending in 2012, about 85 are currently taking default service, the New York PSC reported in a written order on RGE's compliance plan.
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May 23, 2011
PPL's residential rate will fall by about 5 mills per kWh effective June 1, but the rate for small business customers will jump a whopping 3.3 cents per kWh.
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May 20, 2011
The New York PSC approved a plan to lower the hourly priced default service threshold at Rochester Gas & Electric to 300 kW.
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May 12, 2011
Respond Power has launched a dynamic pricing plan for customers at PPL Electric Utilities with smart meters, called Respond Power Rewards.
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May 4, 2011
A settlement regarding West Penn Power's (Allegheny) dynamic generation rate proposals would, for residential service, replace the original Time of Use (TOU) rate proposal with a "competitively neutral" Critical Peak Rebate (CPR) program.
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May 3, 2011
Consolidated Edison and ESCOs were not able to reach complete consensus on 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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April 20, 2011
The Ontario Energy Board has approved updated Regulated Price Plan (RPP) electric commodity rates for mass market customers, for the six month period beginning May 1.
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April 18, 2011
The Pennsylvania PUC ordered that costs of PECO's optional dynamic pricing plan shall only be recovered from default service customers through the Generation Supply Adjustment (M-2009-2123944).
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April 14, 2011
Champion Energy Services has begun offering a Time of Use product in ERCOT, COO Michael Sullivan reported during a panel at the Gulf Coast Power Association spring conference.
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March 28, 2011
Existing customers at Ameren with peak demands of at least 150 kW and under 400 kW will be moved to hourly default service pricing effective at the end of the April 2014 monthly billing period, after the Illinois Commerce Commission declared those customers to be competitively served.
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March 14, 2011
Niagara Mohawk would lower the mandatory hourly pricing threshold to 250 kW effective with the June 2013 billing cycle, under an implementation plan filed with the New York PSC (10-E-0050).
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March 2, 2011
Ameren Illinois has petitioned the Illinois Commerce Commission to declare Ameren's provision of electric supply to retail customers with peak demands of at least 150 kW but less than 400 kW to be competitive effective May 1, 2011, which would move existing customers in this class to default hourly…
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February 24, 2011
In an unsurprising order, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio found that Duke Energy Ohio's proposed Market Rate Offer filing did not meet statutory criteria, due to its proposed two-year blending process, and found that the case can not move forward as filed. (Case 10-2586-EL-SSO).
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February 17, 2011
Pennsylvania electric generation suppliers, "are exempt from the budget billing obligation when offering dynamically-priced [including monthly variable] products to residential customers," the Pennsylvania PUC said in a Secretarial letter yesterday (M-2009-2082042).
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January 7, 2011
The Allentown Morning Call reports that PPL Electric Utilities will not place customers leaving competitive supply for PPL's optional Time of Use default service plan on standard (non-TOU) default service rates first for one billing cycle, as PPL originally said it would do in extending the TOU…
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