Category: Updates
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Keyspan – Long Island (National Grid) Increases Utility Shutoff Measures After Closing Walk-In Customer Service Centers
Last year, Keyspan East Gas Corporation filed a proposal with the PSC seeking to eliminate all customer service assistance (except for taking payments) at eight of its eleven long island walk-in […] -
Verizon – NY Reports Profitable 2013 After Years of Claimed Losses on its Wireline Telephone Service
Verizon – NY, the major wireline phone service provider in New York State, for years has filed required Annual Reports with the Public Service Commission indicating it is losing money on […] -
Time Warner’s VOIP Internet Phone Service in New York is a “Telecommunications Service” Requiring Just, Reasonable and Nondiscriminatory Service
The New York Times published an Op -Ed today raising numerous valid points about current efforts of telephone companies to migrate telephone service and phone customers from traditionally regulated copper wireline service […] -
Solar PV May Result in Higher NY Electric Rates
There is a movement afoot to greatly increase the amount of solar photovoltaic (PV) electricity produced by customers with rooftop units, supported by tax benefits, regulatory provisions setting generous “net […] -
Excelsior!! New York State Electricity Prices Top Lower 48 States
Even though New York State has large amounts of low cost hydro power and much relatively low cost nuclear power is generated in the state, retail electric rates set by […] -
Market Monitor Suggests Electric Power Producers Price Gouged in January 2014 Spikes
In January, 2014, electricity market prices soared in the NYISO, NE-ISO and PJM market regions. In these areas, consisting of most of the 15 states that allowed utilities to sell […] -
Telephone Subscribership of New York Households Declines Again in 2013 — New York Now 48th of 50 States
The FCC’s 2013 Universal Service Monitoring Report with data through October 2013 again shows New York slipping in terms of the percentage of households with telephone service. The National average household […] -
DC Circuit: FERC’s “Demand Response” Scheme to Pay Retail Customers Not to Use Electricity Illegally Exceeds its Powers to Set Wholesale Electric Rates
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 […] -
Illinois CUB Report Shows Potential Pitfalls in Switching to Alternative Electricity Suppliers
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 […]