For background, see the prior posts regarding the July 1, 2012 Con Edison lockout of unionized employees, the union’s petition to the NY PSC for investigation of service reductions, and […]
The Syracuse Post Standard reports that: National Grid is expected to pay a $1.667 million penalty next month to settle charges that for years it plied workers at the state […]
The Consolidated Edison Company of New York (“Con Edison”) locked out about 8,500 of its unionized employees on July 1, 2012. On July 11, the Utility Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO […]
On July 12, 2012, the New York Public Service Commission (PSC) directed Con Edison to respond by July 17, 2012 to a Motion for Initiation of Expedited Investigation and Interim Relief […]
Utility consumer advocates from the PJM RTO region are asking FERC to allocate $1.2 of the $6 million for electric consumers in the PJM region to enhance policing of the wholesale markets. See MOTION OF INDICATED […]
On July 11, 2012, a FERC ALJ decided motions regarding “eligiblity” of parties to recommend how FERC will allocate disgorged profits from alleged gaming of NYISO electricity markets. The fund is for […]
On July 1 Con Edison locked out approximately 8,000 of its employees who are union members in a dispute over concessions sought by the company. According to Crain’s, “[m]any of the […]
Over the past decade or so, in a series of orders, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) began to allow producers and traders of wholesale electric service to sell at […]
In the busy last week of the regular legislative session, Greg Sayre was quietly nominated by the Governor and on June 21, 2012 confirmed by the State Senate to be a […]
On March, 2012, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced a $245 million settlement of its enforcement staff’s investigation of Constellation Energy Commodities Group, (CECG), for alleged manipulation of wholesale […]