CT ENB Week In Review: 7/9/10

Energy news, notes, and bits for the week ending July 9, 2010 – as compiled only by the Connecticut Energy News Board. Stay cool out there.

Department of Energy finalized $8 Million grant for ISO New England Smart Grid Project. New phasor measurement units (PMUs), will provide control room operators with enhanced tools to monitor and measure performance of the region’s electric grid.

DPUC issued Draft Decision in Docket No. 06-04-04RE01 – DPUC Review of Cost Allocation Issues Related to Natural Gas Transportation Services – Settlement Agreement. The proposed Settlement Agreement provides a remedy for marketers in CNG’s and SCG’s service territory, for situations where a customer becomes delinquent on its marketer supply bills during the initial 12-month firm transportation (FT) term.

Transmission Developers Inc. said it is scrapping the Connecticut portion of its Champlain-Hudson power line project. The line was to have extended from Quebec to Connecticut under Lake Champlain, the Hudson River and Long Island Sound. Scrapping the Connecticut portion of the project is said to reduce the cost of the project from $3.8 billion to $1.9 billion, the length from 420 miles to 355 and the amount of electricity transported from 2,000 megawatts to 1,000.

Connecticut Natural Gas reported its BTU heating values for the month of June 2010.

CL&P and Yankee Gas announced two new community partnerships that will support middle school literacy programs in Waterbury and Danbury, and professional development for Hispanic engineers across the state.

DPUC granted RJT Energy Consultants, LLC a Connecticut Electric Aggregator Certificate to serve residential, commercial, industrial, municipal and governmental customers.

Community Energy, Inc. gets $99K Irrevocable Standby Letter of Credit to become a licensed electric supplier.

Ameresco CT filed its quarterly energy savings report for January 1, 2010 – March 31, 2010. Ameresco is a qualified Class III renewable energy source, and is required to file a report of energy savings attributable to its Project each calendar quarter.

Retail Energy Supply Association (RESA) members met with DPUC Staff and Commissioners to review current competitive retail market landscape in the Nutmeg State.

Electric power shopping in the United Illuminating service territory continues its strong 2010 upward trend.

DPUC scheduled September 2nd public hearing to determine the accuracy of CL&P and UI customer billings under the Transmission Adjustment Clause (TAC) charge or credit for customer billings for the period of July 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010.

Hamden resident expresses concern about United Illuminating’s merger with Southern Connecticut and Connecticut Natural Gas. Says merger would create energy monopoly and has potential of further exacerbating Connecticut’s losses of jobs and businesses.