The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued a May 23, 2014 opinion in EPSA v FERC spiking FERC Order 745, the “demand response” element of FERC’s extra-statutory effort to […]
The Illinois Citizens Utility Board has issued a report on the state of third party electricity and gas suppliers, Illinois Electric Market Report, May 13, 2014. “CUB experts who field calls […]
A report issued by the California Public Utilities Commission (CAPUC), “California Net Energy Metering (NEM) Draft Cost Effectiveness Evaluation, indicates that NEM rates for solar rooftop generation mainly benefit higher income customer […]
A very interesting petition for declaratory relief was just filed today with the New York PSC, involving “behind the meter” distributed generation sales from a 60 MW biomass plant owned […]
Under FERC approved tariffs, PJM, the transmission grid utility, allocates costs of transmission upgrades. Ostensibly the costs are to be allocated to beneficiaries. Con Edison has a complex agreement for […]
At a May 15, 2014 New York PSC Technical Conference on Winter Energy Pricing and Supply, the Utility Project pointed out that regulators have adopted rate setting mechanisms that rely […]
A New York Utility Project report raises questions regarding the regulatory oversight of Verizon New York, the largest telephone company in New York State, and its affiliates. The report was triggered […]
On February 25, 2014, the New York Public Service Commission issued its Order Taking Actions to Improve the Residential and Small Nonresidential Retail Access Markets. The purpose of this Order […]
Under the Home Energy Fair Practices Act (HEFPA), Article 2 of the New York Public Service Law, customers who have been shut off for nonpayment of bills are entitled to […]
Public Citizen is questioning whether the New England Independent System Operator’s (NE-ISO) capacity market auction was manipulated by a hedge fund, Energy Capital Partners. The hedge fund, which has other […]