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 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
FERC accepted the findings and recommendations of separate audits of DTE Energy Company and affiliates (Docket PA10-12); EDF Inc. and affiliates including EDF Trading (Docket PA10-11); and EIF Management, LLC and affiliates (PA10-10); relating to the filing of electric quarterly reports (EQR) and…
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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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October 1, 2010
A decision by Entergy and Cleco Power to join the Southwest Power Pool RTO, "will yield significant economic benefits to the collective SPP/Entergy region," according to a cost-benefit analysis conducted by Charles River Associates and Resero Consulting, but the net benefits to the individual…
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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
The ERCOT market should expect that some retail electric providers will default in 2011 as a result of mismanaging their commercial operations in the nodal market, Chris Brewster, Partner at Lloyd Gosselink, said during a panel discussion on the nodal market at the Gulf Coast Power Association's…
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September 28, 2010
New York State Electric & Gas Corporation informed FERC of several considerations in favor of action on a petition relating to NYSEG and Niagara Mohawk metering errors which prompted a partial settlement which has been sitting at the Commission for about a year, in Docket EL09-26. NYSEG stopped…
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