May 22, 2013 New York’s Public Service Commission (PSC) received an update from the Department of Public Service regarding summer preparedness in terms of electricity reliability and price volatility for residential, commercial, and industrial customers that receive electric supply from public utilities in New York. Based on projections from the New York...
PSE&G has filed a request with New Jersey’s Board of Public Utilities (BPU) to raise $3.9 billion to update its power and gas energy grids. Termed the “Energy Strong” program, the increased revenue will go towards infrastructure upgrades that will prevent widespread power outages such as those experienced in Superstorm...
Illinois Lays Out Metrics For Ameren, ComEd Smart Meters The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) along with Citizens Utility Board (CUB) of Illinois has officially reached an agreement with two major regulated utilities in Illinois, ComEd and Ameren Illinois to lay out plans for smart meter metrics in order to gauge the impact...
Maryland’s Delmarva Power has made a formal request with the state’s Public Service Commission to raise distribution rates for its more than 200,000 electricity customers in the state. If approved, the rate increase will raise more than $22.7 million for the utility, which will go toward “service reliability investments already...
Plumsted Township, a small town in central New Jersey, has become the first municipality in the state to participate in community-wide electric aggregation. A decade-old state law allows municipalities to purchase electricity in bulk from a chosen retail electricity provider with the purpose of providing its citizens cheaper electric supply...
