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• Cirro
to open free-standing retail power store in Texas
• May
we introduce you to Reggie?
TVA
open to supplier choice for distributors?
That's what interim chairman tells Platts
Choice has been an issue in TVA since Bristol, Va, decided to shop
with Cinergy several years ago.
Much later AEP signed up nine co-ops
and munis including Bristol (RT,
10/4/04).
Now interim TVA Chairman Bill
Baxter told Platts Electric Power Daily that TVA is open to the
idea of choice although he'll try to persuade customers that TVA
is the best.
TVA’s view is that access on
the TVA grid should favor native load ...
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Business
buyers in Texas
saved money report says
Businesses
should shop the way utilities do, advises Boulder, Colo, energy
consultant EnergyWindow in a new white paper (www.energywindow.com).
Prices-to-beat in Texas rose $11.55/mwh/year
since the market opened there -- closely tied to gas prices.
Businesses who shopped averaged
only $8.80/mw hikes in deals with marketers.
Shoppers’ savings averaged
24% at Oncor, Central Power & Light and Houston Lighting &
Power but customers lucky enough to sign fixed-price deals three
years ago would have saved 47%, EnergyWindow reported ...
Shopping
picking up in Maryland
Maryland's
power markets had an active month, with 1,161 customers moving
to competitive suppliers, including some residential customers,
mostly in Conectiv territory.
Shopping numbers grew for almost
all classes at all four Maryland IOUs in the month.
Baltimore Gas & Electric C&Is
shopped most, with 639 customers moving to the market.
Next was Conectiv with 215 C&Is
and 35 residential customers switching ...
Cirro
to open free-standing
retail power store in Texas
Cirro
Energy and its authorized agent Texstar Power Brokerage are bringing
storefronts to Texas's retail power
market.
The state's first free-standing
retail power store is officially to open in San Angelo Aug 16.
San Angelo is part of the tri-city
area with Midland and Odessa.
Customers will enjoy the same ease
in buying power that they do for cell phones and pagers, said
Tim Bell, Cirro executive vice president ...
May
we introduce you to Reggie?
It’s
the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative called Reggie by its friends.
Imagine a multi-state CO2 cap-and-trade
program being developed for the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions
(www.rggi.org) similar to the
ever-so-successful acid rain provisions of the Clean Air Act's
Title 4.
The region is the size of
Germany and produced about 1.5 million tons of CO2 in 2002, Christina
Palmero reported at last week’s RTO/ISO conference in Washington
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