Case No. 99-1212- EL-ETP, Sept. 13, 2000 (Ohio P.U.C.)
News Digest
Restructuring Plans. The Ohio PUC denied rehearing of its restructuring order for FirstEnergy issued two months earlier, rejecting arguments by all petitioners-utility, marketers, and consumer watchdog groups.
PUC Oversight: Panacea or New Problem?
Docket No. ER97-2353-000, Opinion No. 447, 92 FERC ¶61,169, Aug. 17, 2000
Docket No. EL00-91-000, 92 FERC
Should PUCs teach customers that the market doesn't want them?
Off Peak
July 1, 2000
Managed Expectations
By Regina R. Johnson
Should PUCs teach customers that the market doesn't want them?
You know the flight of suppliers from a deregulated market is having an impact when surviving marketers issue press releases to let customers know they're still in the game.
Electric Reliability
Case No. 2000-095, May 15, 2000 (Ky.P.S.C.).
Carl J. Levesque
News Analysis
EDI Standards: At a Snail's Pace in New York
State PUCs
Case 99-M-0631, March 22, 2000 (N.Y.P.S.C.).
State PUCs
Docket No. NOI-98-3, March 3, 2000 (Iowa Ut.Bd.)
State PUCs
Retail Energy Choice. At press time, Virginia issued proposed interim rules governing pilot programs for electric retail competition in electricity and natural gas, with comments due Feb. 24. The interim rules were not expected to resolve all issues, but only to provide a starting point to gain experience.
Among other points, the interim rules would require utilities to make information available through electronic bulletin boards on availability of commodity supply, ancillary services, and transmission and distribution capacity. Case No.
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