California Commissions' Proposed Final Opinion For GHG Reductions.
The California Public Utilities Commission and the California Energy Commission have proposed further recommendations for the development of emissions-reduction regulatory strategies to the California Air Resources Board. California's 2006 Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32) requires that California's greenhouse gas (GHG) emission levels be reduced to the...

E SOURCE Asks: Will Undoing Deregulation Undo The Energy Distribution Company?
BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- With corporate profits down and riskier business ventures now struggling to deliver attractive returns, investors are exerting intense pressures on utilities to cut costs and boost profits. Customers, meanwhile, continue to expect improved service quality at lower prices -- an outcome...

E SOURCE Asks: Will Undoing Deregulation Undo The Energy Distribution Company?
BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- With corporate profits down and riskier business ventures now struggling to deliver attractive returns, investors are exerting intense pressures on utilities to cut costs and boost profits. Customers, meanwhile, continue to expect improved service quality at lower prices -- an outcome...

Rhythms Continues Successful Regulatory Litigation.
Massachusetts DTE Decision Expands Broadband Services Provider's Market Reach and Lowers Line-Sharing Operating Costs ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Jan. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Rhythms NetConnections Inc. (Nasdaq: RTHM) today announced support for portions of a line-sharing arbitration reconsideration decision from the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and...

Cheap truckin': the deregulation of intrastate trucking will save shippers - and consumers - a bundle.
CONGRESS is deadlocked on health care and stymied over telecommunications reform; it was barely able even to pass new crime legislation this year. Yet, unheralded in news reports, it managed in the doldrums of August to pass one of the most significant pieces of national economic legislation in more...

Verizon in Hiding: Local Phone Giant Refuses to Hand Over Documents on State of Local Competition in Lawsuit, Says Ntegrity.
BALTIMORE, June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The following release was issued today by Ntegrity Telecontent Services, Inc.: Ntegrity, a Baltimore-based local telephone company, is accusing Verizon of withholding documents from a federal court. Verizon is required to produce documents on the state of competition in its...

The answer is blowing in the wind.
Wind power is moving out of California into the rest of the country. Its economic and environmental benefits have caught the attention of legislators and public utility commissions. No picture describes America's energy future better than a recent photograph taken in Oklahoma. It shows an old oil well--the "see-sawing"...

Retail rates, distributed generation, and the Energy Policy Act of 2005: did you meet your first deadline?
On August 8, 2005, the President signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct'05). Within its 1,725 pages, the statute includes a provision requiring State regulators (for the utilities whose rates they regulate) and larger nonregulated electric utilities to hold public proceedings to consider whether to adopt five new...

Regulators Approve Unitil Acquisition.
HAMPTON, N.H., Nov. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Unitil Corporation announced that with the approval of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities ("MDPU") on November 18, all regulatory approvals required for the purchase of Northern Utilities, Inc., ("Northern") and Granite State Gas Transmission, Inc. ("Granite"), from NiSource Inc. have been received....

Stranded cost recovery and cooperative electric utilities.
Both federal and state legislative and regulatory bodies have been moving decisively toward deregulation of major portions of the electric industry. Major legislation has been enacted in a handful of states, most notably California and Pennsylvania. Major electric industry restructuring proposals are also pending before legislative and regulatory bodies...