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• New
York PSC OKs Central Hudson plan to boost shopping
• Energy
Savings giant heading for New York market
Generators'
plan for California
has AB 1890 aroma
Why
would an openly free-market governor back a plan to take California
back to the Middle Ages?
Neither the governor nor his energy
advisor, Joe Desmond, has done that although Dow Jones' early version
hints that they have (RT,
8/22).
The Coalition for California Policy
Reform includes AES, Duke, NRG Energy, Mirant, Dynegy and Reliant
and later added Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas &
Electric.
The pact gives the generators long
contracts in return for selling out competition's future in the
Golden State ...
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How
badly can Ohio's PUC mess
up DEO plan to exit market?
They're
off to a good start.
Dominion East Ohio asked
the PUC to reconsider its earlier decision to treat DEO's proposal
to change the way it buys gas for non-shopping customers from
the traditional portfolio-based gas cost recovery (GCR) model
to a competitive auction.
But DEO doesn't plan to abandon
its POLR responsibilities.
It hasn't even filed a proposal
for phase two when customers might be assigned to default suppliers
...
Marketers
join coalition to
block nodal grid in Texas
Despite
the steamrolling momentum behind the adoption of a nodal market
design in ERCOT, one group is working hard to put brakes on the
idea.
The
Committee of Concerned Loads is pushing the PUC to take a step
back and not hastily OK overhauling ERCOT’s three-year-old
zonal system.
Members
include the City of Garland, Denton Municipal Electric, Tara Energy,
Cirro Energy, StarTex Energy, Texas Energy Assn for Marketers,
Utility Choice Electric, Greenville Electric Utility System, Public
Power Pool, Rayburn County Electric Cooperative, DFW Electric
Consumer Coalition and the City of Dallas ...
New
York PSC OKs Central Hudson
plan to boost shopping
New York regulators yesterday OKd a Central Hudson Gas & Electric
plan to attract new business and boost the local economies.
The
PSC's decision is a major rebuff of efforts by Energy East companies
who opposed the plan.
The
PSC had ordered the state's nine utilities in December to come
up with plans equal to or better than Orange & Rockland Utilities'
shopping haven.
O&R's
Power Switch encourages customers to buy from a marketer for two
months at a discount and has lifted residential shopping to 37%
of gas and 33% of power customers.
Fewer
than 1% of customers who signed up for the discounts returned
to O&R supply, the PSC said ...
Energy
Savings giant heading
for New York market
Energy
Savings Income Fund -- the fast-growing marketer whose trademark
product is the five-year power or gas contract -- is moving into
New York State.
New York is "so different"
from other US markets, Rebecca MacDonald, executive chair, told
reporters and analysts yesterday.
"Regulators there are welcoming
marketers with open arms," she added, and working to accelerate
migration.
Sales are to begin this summer in
Consolidated Edison and KeySpan territories with other utilities
to follow as their enhanced market plans are filed and approved,
CEO Brennan Mulcahy said.
ESIF began investing this winter
some of the $3 million to $4 million it takes to set up systems
and policies for New York and will build a home-grown sales force
as it did in
Illinois ...
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