As directed by the Commission, Staff will convene the first meeting of a curtailment service provider (CSP) stakeholder process on September 29, 2011, at 1:30PM (location and dial-in tbd). As set forth in the Commission's Order, the stakeholder process will address the following: "1) what information would be beneficial to the Commission related to CSP activity in the State regarding the Commission's statutory obligation to ensure adequacy of electric supply and engage in long-term planning of electric; 2) what information is available to CSPs that could be provided to the Commission related to the quantity of demand resources being aggregated by CSPs in Maryland as well as the number and size of participating facilities; and 3) what information CSPs can provide to the Commission and MDE related to MDE's pending regulations addressing air emissions from distributed generators, while streamlining formatting issues and avoiding unnecessary duplication of effort; 4) how any reporting of information pursuant to this Order can mitigate confidentiality concerns; and 5) any other issues the stakeholder group finds material to compliance with the contents of this Order." The full text of the CSP Licensing Order is available on the NEM Website.

The NYPSC Staff meeting on retail market issues has been rescheduled to October 18, 2011, beginning at 10:30AM in the Commission’s Albany offices.

Agenda issues identified by NYPSC Staff for the meeting:
Implementation of Contest Period
• Authorization of Customer Enrollments
• Validation of Customer Block
• Slamming Investigations – Liability and Penalty Treatment
• Definition of Direct Customer
• Electronic/Social Media Applications – Marketing Standards and Customer Privacy
• Contract Renewal – Customer Affirmation
• EDI
• Power to Choose Website

RSVP to Staff by October 13, 2011. The full text of the Meeting Notice is available on the NEM Website.

The Commonwealth's Independent Regulatory Review Commission issued a disapproval order of the Commission's gas competition rulemaking pertaining to the formulation of the gas price to compare, POR and capacity release. The IRRC, "determined this regulation is not consistent with the statutory authority of the PUC and the intention of the General Assembly. In addition, upon consideration of all of the other criteria of the Regulatory Review Act discussed above, we find promulgation of this regulation is not in the public interest." The IRRC based this determination on its finding that including SOLR costs in the PTC would be contrary to statute. IRRC also expressed concern that the regulations would not ensure that gas price information was presented to consumers in an understandable format. The full text of the Disapproval Order is available on the NEM Website.