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Nautral Gas Rates Daily Update 06/30/2011 |
| On the underbelly of successful deregulation this morning, Michigan Gas Utilities Corporation said that it, "will cease accepting new GCC [Gas Customer Choice] customer enrollments for one year," beginning September 1, 2011. During this "moratorium," Michigan Gas Utilities said that it will assess ... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rates 06/29/2011 |
| In the Ercot territory Monday, electricity demand peaked at 62,762 megawatts between 4-5 pm in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) region which was lower than the earlier forecast of more than 65,000 MW. Energy prices in the market peaked at $626 in a 15 minute interval in the west co... |
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Natural Gas Rates 06/28/2011 |
| In the lone star state yesterday, Ercot entered Energy Emergency Alert Level 1 at 3:30 pm yesterday when responsive reserves dropped below 2,300 MW. Generation capacity is expected to be tight over the peak today as well, and ERCOT operators are closely monitoring the situation. |
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Daily Natural Gas Rates 06/27/2011 |
| The July natural gas wholesale contract rose Friday from 30-day lows on some bargain hunting by energy traders and expectations that demand-inducing heat would return next week to many U.S. markets. The July wholesale contract settled 3.6 cents, or 0.86%, higher, at $4.229 a million British thermal... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rate 06/24/2011 |
| Since Mexico is a large trading partner of the U.S., it seems that the United States can count on selling a growing sliver of its natural gas production to Mexico as the country's reliance on gas-fired power generation grows, domestic oil production overshadows that of gas, and liquefied natural gas... |
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Natural Gas Daily Update 06/23/2011 |
| In the state of Pennsylvania yesterday, the Pennsylvania Office of Small Business Advocate has filed a complaint at the Pennsylvania PUC seeking, among other things, an investigation into the impact of the proposed Exelon-Constellation Energy merger on the state's retail electricity and natural gas ... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rate 06/22/2011 |
| Yesterday in the lone star state, Texas Competitive Power Advocates is seeking to impose a "backstop" capacity obligation on ERCOT loads. With the goal of fine-tuning ERCOT's energy-only design, TCPA suggests consideration be given to requiring loads to bring capacity to the market to incent both fo... |
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Natural Gas Rates Daily Update 06/21/2011 |
| Constellation Energy, a leading competitive electricity supplier to business and public sector customers, yesterday released results of a statewide poll of Illinois consumers showing residents strongly support shopping for electricity providers at a time when high gasoline prices are affecting their... |
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Natural Gas Rates Daily 06/20/2011 |
| In the Georgia retail natural gas market about 15% of customers switched suppliers over the last year, and over the next 12 months another 15% will be in play, according to a study done by J.D. Power and Associates 2011 Georgia Retail Gas Provider Satisfaction Study which was published last week. |
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Daily Natural Gas Rates 06/17/2011 |
| As we mentioned the advance payment program from TXU earlier this week, a regulated power provider in North Carolina is borrowing some of the unique ideas that are offered by unregulated power providers in other states by offering a, “Advance Pay Program”. The town of Selma, North Carolina will be ... |
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Natural Gas Rates Daily Update 06/16/11 |
| In Pennsylvania, PECO energy is offering $120 for residential customers that allows the utility to cycle their home air conditioners on and off during the hottest summer afternoons. Peco Energy Co. says 68,000 residential customers have signed up to receive these credits. |
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Natural Gas Rates News 60/15/2011 |
| In the lone star state this morning, TXU is announcing their advance pay payment plan through the news calling it, “TXU Energy FlexPower (SM) which allows customers to pay for electricity in advance. The plan features free alerts and notifications via text message or email notifying customers when ... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rates 06/14/2011 |
| On the retail compliance front this morning, the Connecticut DPUC has issued a Notice of Violation against ResCom Energy, under which ResCom would be fined $11,000, for what the Department said were unauthorized switches. The Department's Notice of Violation found that ResCom failed to obtain confir... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rate News 06/13/2011 |
| On the deregulated front this morning, state energy regulators have fined a Connecticut electricity supplier $100,000 after finding that it engaged in deceptive marketing practices, the Maryland Public Service Commission announced Friday. The commission also ordered North American Power and Gas to u... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rates 06/10/2011 |
| As Direct Energy is guiding the Pennsylvania PUC to offer default service, several consumer groups told the PUC separately that significant customer migration to competitive suppliers at several Pennsylvania electric distribution companies in the last few months with significant gains in the past we... |
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Natural Gas Rates 06/09/2011 |
| As we do on most Thursday’s, we’ll focus the rest of the commentary on the storage levels. U.S. natural gas inventories are expected to have gained 78 billion cubic feet last week, a Reuter’s poll of industry traders and analysts showed on Wednesday. |
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Natural Gas Rates Daily Updates 06/08/2011 |
| On the innovation front this morning, TXU Energy is announcing today, the launch of the TXU Energy Mobile App for the iPhone(R). With this release, TXU Energy becomes the first and only electricity retailer in Texas to offer its customers mobile access to their accounts through an app for the iPhon... |
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Natural Gas Rates 06/07/2011 |
| On the global front this week, the increasing abundance of cheap natural gas, coupled with rising demand for the fuel from China and the fall-out from the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, may have set the stage for a "golden age of gas," the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Monday. |
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Natural Gas Rates 06/04/2011 |
| The July natural gas exchange contract fell on Friday as cooler weather forecasts provided an opportunity for energy traders to profit from recent gains by cashing out of the rising market last week. However, natural gas prices still ended the week up 4.1% as the arrival of summer's air conditionin... |
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Daily Gas Rates 06/03/2011 |
| The reason that yesterday’s EIA storage report was such a large surprise was primarily attributed to the amount of natural gas to coal switching in the industry. According to a report published yesterday by Tudor Pickering Holt, they indicate that natural gas and coal prices will remain aligned at ... |
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Daily Natural Gas Rates 06/02/2011 |
| On the efficiency front this morning, the occupation of meter readers has gone the way of the milkman or the gas station attendant. Customers of utilities have noticed they never see a meter reader anymore as utilities have been switching customers entirely to "smart meters" that not only record us... |
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Natural Gas Rate Update 06/01/2011 |
| In the lone star state this morning, a bill requiring natural gas drillers to publicly disclose the chemicals they use in hydraulic fracturing passed the Texas Senate last week but only after an effort to delay part of its implementation was defeated. Hydraulic fracturing called fracking, pumps mill... |
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