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• FEATURE
STORY: Commerce
Energy offering 8 days free service on one-year deal
• Maine shopping uneven among classes
• What
if it takes a decade to open retail markets?
• Constellation: C&I retail market no
longer an experiment
• Illinois
chair tells fellow NARUC members how to open markets
Commerce
Energy offering 8 days
free service on one-year deal
Commerce
Energy Group calls its new marketing program in Texas Eight Days
a Week based on providing new commercial customers eight days of
free service if they sign a one-year contract before Aug 31.
Customers can do the deal over
the phone in one short conversation to 800-962-4655. Certain restrictions
apply.
Commerce Energy says it serves 9,000+
customers in four markets -- Centerpoint, TXU, American Electric
Power and Texas-New Mexico Power ...
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Maine
shopping uneven among classes
Residential
shopping took a hit earlier this year when the leading supplier
-- green energy marketer Maine Interfaith Power & Light --
lost customers not signed to evergreen contracts (RT,
5/12).
By mid-May the group had re-signed
almost all customers, was signing up new ones and was waiting
to hear about renewals from government offices.
The PUC meanwhile focused on the
medium C&I market, holding workshops this spring and summer
to bring customers and suppliers together ...
What
if it takes a decade to
open retail markets?
ALJ
Jeffrey Stockholm of the New York PSC would rather see a 10-year
road to competition that works than a one-year shopping bubble
that isn't sustainable.
He cited steadily rising percentages
of gas and power load served by marketers as evidence that New
York may have been smart to go about deregulating differently
from any other state.
Faced in 1996 with billions of dollars
in PURPA costs and nuclear construction contracts, the PSC --
not the legislature -- asked utilities to get out of the generation
business, said Stockholm ...
Constellation:
C&I retail market
no longer an experiment
Constellation
Energy's Jonathan Moore agrees that real prices are key to developing
a real market (above).
Customers
need to see real prices for competition to work, the senior vice
president told the Energy Bar in Washington.
The
C&I retail market "is no longer an experiment, it's a
big business," he noted, and if states get the rules right
as they did in Texas, "you see healthy competition."
Competition
drives prices down, especially where prices are most transparent
and marketers have to work harder to compete ...
Illinois
chair tells fellow NARUC
members how to open markets
Illinois
Commerce Commission Chairman Edward Hurley, a Democrat, urged
fellow state regulators to "lighten up."
He considers that to be the first
step in getting retail competition to work, he told the Energy
Bar Assn last week.
Hurley specifically pointed to FERC
jurisdiction over wholesale bidding for POLR and default service
supply.
Looking at the crazy quilt of open,
quasi-open and still-regulated retail models, Hurley sees a need
for a "proper national regulatory approach" but he realizes
that's unlikely ...
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