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• FEATURE
STORY: Here comes Centrica
• Pennsylvania
regulators face major test on power
• Columbia
(Ky) gas market survives to 2009
Here
comes Centrica
Starts
with C&I goals but can residences be far behind?
QUOTE OF THE DAY: We are embarking upon a fairly
aggressive growth agenda across all of the East Coast and Midwest.
We actually already have business in Ohio specifically. We have
a local sales office there. We're currently serving almost 200,000
residential customers there but also almost 20,000 business customers.
We've been signing up C&I customers for at least the past
12 months to get good penetration into that marketplace... We
intend to establish ourselves as market leaders.
Badar Khan, senior vice president, Direct Energy in an interview
with RT.
Britain's leading
energy marketer is leading the move to open US markets -- market
by
market ...
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Pennsylvania
regulators
face major test on power
Vigorous shopping in western Pennsylvania raises a big question.
Can Pennsylvania regulators foster
competition if they set their mind to do it?
The question is complicated by CTCs
and stranded costs.
Unlike other utilities in the Keystone
State, Duquesne Power didn't settle with the PUC as did the others.
Its pact was thrust upon it by regulators
...
Columbia
(Ky) gas market survives to 2009
Columbia
Gas of Kentucky's gas shopping program got a last-minute reprieve
from regulators who OKd its renewal through March 2009.
Nearly 30% -- about 41,000 of its
145,000 customers - have chosen competitive supply through the
program and saved $13.5 million through October of last year,
Columbia reported.
Those customers would have been
turned back to Columbia if the PSC hadn't acted when it did (RT,
3/9).
Customers who use less than 25,000
mcf/year are eligible to shop in the program that began in the
fall of 2000 and has been extended once through March
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