Pennsylvania Regulators Remind Retail Suppliers to Follow the Rules After Dubious Sales Practices

Pennsylvania Regulators Remind Retail Suppliers to Follow the Rules After Dubious Sales Practices

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission issued a secretarial letter on April 3 to all electric and natural gas suppliers in the state reminding them of sales and marketing guidelines for the state’s residential energy market. The letter follows the imposition of civil penalties and remedial action against multiple electric generation suppliers for violating rules that govern door-to-door…

Mid-Atlantic Operator Teams Up With DOE to Study Distributed Resource Integration

Mid-Atlantic Operator Teams Up With DOE to Study Distributed Resource Integration

PJM Interconnection LLC is joining forces with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory to study the integration of distributed energy resources, such as rooftop solar, into the operator’s grid, according to an April 2 press release. The Argonne laboratory will be supporting PJM’s Distributed Energy Resource Ride-Through Task Force in developing guidelines for so-called “ride through” and…

Florida Regulators Approve Cost Recovery for Duke's 150 Megawatts of Solar

Florida Regulators Approve Cost Recovery for Duke’s 150 Megawatts of Solar

The Florida Public Service Commission approved cost recovery for two of Duke Energy Florida LLC’s solar projects, totaling about 150 megawatts of capacity, according to an April 2 press release. The two projects, located in the northern part of the state, are the 74.9-megawatt Hamilton Solar farm and the 74.9-megawatt Columbia Solar farm. Hamilton was originally developed by Tradewind…