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COURT REJECTS ELECTRIC RETAILER’S BID TO PASS ALONG INCREASED FUEL COSTS
Feb 15th
COURT REJECTS ELECTRIC RETAILER’S BID TO PASS ALONG INCREASED FUEL COSTS
Case centered on whether provider could change terms of fixed-rate contracts to deal with unexpected price spikes.
A Houston electric retailer has been ordered to pay a Dallas restaurant chain nearly $345,000 stemming from a 4-year dispute over whether a power provider in the Texas competitive market can pass along unexpected increases in fuel costs to customers who have signed a fixed-rate agreement for electricity.
The case was filed by the Humperdink’s chain of restaurants in the Dallas market against Tara Energy LLC. after the power retailer imposed a variable fuel adjustment More >
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Loading ...What Next for SmartGridCity? Xcel Wants to Test Dynamic Pricing
Feb 12th
Feb 9, 2010
Here’s one pilot all utilities should be watching. Most pundits predict the U.S. will gradually move to dynamic pricing for electricity. But there are precious few models and examples (and many of those are bad examples, as with Puget Sound Energy’s infamous debacle). Now Smart Grid pioneer Xcel has filed to experiment with three different flavors of dynamic pricing in Boulder.
Xcel Energy has asked the Colorado PUC for permission to initiate a pilot pricing program for Boulder’s SmartGridCity to test customer acceptance of three different electricity pricing options. If approved by the PUC, the pilot would be launched in More >
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