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AUGUST
Old, new demands tax New York's power grid - Democrat and Chronicle- 08-08-2010
Memorandum Decision and Order in Pilchen v. City of Auburn, (Hon. David N. Hurd, N.D.N.Y., Aug. 5, 2010)
Vacant homes plague city's water system - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - David Andreatta - 08-01-2010
JULY
Critics Assail U.S. Plan to Settle with KeySpan - NY Times -
07-21-2010
PULP Memo on Ending Utility Tax and Assessment Loopholes to Make Competitive Playing Field Level and Generate Added State Revenue - 07-02-2010
JUNE
Long Island City car service company says Verizon put key job on endless hold - 06-06-2010
MAY
AARP Comments in Response to Public Notice Inviting Tunney Act Comments in US v. Keyspan - 05-14-2010
State Announces Additional Federal Home Heating Assistance to Help Struggling Low-Income New Yorkers - 05-11-2010
APRIL
Speaker says no to rate hikes by RG&E - Democratic & Chronicle - 04-28-2010
Bill would allow loans from utilities - Poughkeepsie Journal -
04-23- 2010
Man Finds no 911 for Wrong Number - Times Union - 04-22-2010
Expensive Electricity - AARP Bulletin - 4-2010
Letters to Legislative Leaders in Support of PULP Funding
Letter from Sen. Kevin Parker to Sen. Sampson in Support of
PULP Funding
Letter from AARP to Sen. Sampson in Support of PULP Funding
Letter from ARP to Speaker Silver in Support of PULP Funding
Cuts could pull plug on voice for poor -- Group that aids low-income utility users fears state budget climate may mean end of era - Times Union - 04-13-2010
Morning Ticker - Public Utility Law Project in Danger - The Buzz - Business News - Times Union - 04-12-2010
MARCH
PULP Fiction, or ... Con Ed and the Night Visitor - The Westchester Guardian - 03-25-2010
$157m power abuse - NY Post - 03-08-2010
Heating customers fight pricey propane - Customers often don't know price until after fuel is delivered; sending it back often requires another fee - Ithaca Journal - 03-01-2010
FEBRUARY
February 2010 Hiring Freezes Hamper Weatherization Plan - N.Y. Times - 02-24-2010
Water Shutoffs: Syracuse right to move to protect tenants - The Post-Standard Editorial Board - 02-19-2010
Syracuse may let tenants use rent to pay landlords' delinquent water bills - The Post-Standard - 02-18-2010
Iowa Jail Phone Service - Des Moines Register -
02-17-2010
PULP Files Comments on HEAP Plan for 2010-2011 - 02-17-2010
$85 'stealth tax' pain - NY Post - 02-14-2010
Renewables: Feed-in Tariffs Legal in U.S. When Certain Conditions Met - By Paul Gipe - Grist - 02-04-2010
City of Austin Takes Extra Steps to Assist Low Income Utility Customers - Austin Energy - 02-09-2010
Typical Monthly Residential Electric Bills Comparison Chart - LIPA Included - 02-09-2010
January 2010
PSC Sued By Landlord Over Stay of Electric Submetering at Manhattan Apartment Buildings - 01-30-2010
Con Ed wallet shock - N.Y.Post - 01-29-2010
Oceangate Tenants Ask PSC and DHCR to Halt Submetering and Conduct Environmental Impact Assessment Under SEQRA -
01-28-2010
Letter to DHCR, Commissioner Brian Lawlor - 01-28-2010
Utility Regulatory Assessments: The Time Has Come to Include VoIP and Wireless Louis Manuta - PULP - 01-27-2010
NYC Closes ESCO Tax Loophole: Supplemental Summary of Legislation Affecting Sales and Use Tax Enacted in 2009, NYS Dept. of Taxation and Finance, TSB-M-10(1)S - 01-20-2010
"Effective August 1, 2009, receipts from the sale of the services of transporting,transmitting, distributing or delivering gas or electricity are subject to the 4 ½%New York City local sales tax, even if purchased from someone other than the vendorof the gas or electricity."
Expanding Use of Wind Power Feasible, but May Be Costly - N.Y. Times - 01-21-2010
National Grid renews Syracuse smart grid proposal - The Post-Standard - 01-19-2010
Brief Opposing City of Auburn's Motion to End Lawsuit Over Constitutionality of Water Service Termination and Denial Practices - 01-11-2010
Motion of City of Auburn, N.Y. for Summary Judgment and
Dismissal of Complaint - 12-24-2009
PULP Brief in Support of Motion for Partial Summary Judgment -
11-02-2009
Renewable Portfolio Standard is expanded: PSC order allows an additional $200M for large-scale projects - Times Union - 01-09-2010
Nitty Gritty of Cyber Security - The Offense: Smart Meter + Slot Machine Security, Intelligent Utility - Nov./Dec. 2009
Heat on for HEAP assistance - As more people find it difficult to pay utility bills, requests for state aid are on the rise - Times Union -
01-06-2010
3 die in fire at Detroit home where power was cut - Associated Press - 01-05-2010
DECEMBER 2009
Few Central Hudson customers take advantage of deregulation - Poughkeepsie Journal - 12-20-2009
AARP Calls for Accountability, Oversight and Transparency in New York State Electricity Market - 12-17-2009
New York raids another cause - Times Union Editorial -
12-11-2009
ESCOs Propose to "Educate" Central Hudson Customers with $500,000 Postcards Touting Utility Choice - 12-09-2009
NYSEG gets new president - Elmira Star Gazette - 12-07-2009
Central Hudson chief responds in energy deregulation debate - Poughkeepsie Journal - 12-06-2009
Pay, perks hit at power grid operator: NYISO policies "bleeding the ratepayers," whistleblower warns - 12-02-2009
Verizon’s Big Push For FiOS Bodes Poorly for Little Guy - Daily News - 12-01-2009
NOVEMBER 2009
Brief Contending Auburn City Water Shutoff to Tenant and Refusal to Provide Service Without Assuming Landlord's Debt was Unconstitutional - 11/13/09
Utility Payment Assistance Programs in New York State -
11-10-2009
Stray volts E. Side, W. Side, all around the town - N.Y. Post - 11-06-2009
OCTOBER 2009
CH Chief Says Utility Deregulation Has Disappointed - Poughkeepsie Journal - 10-30-2009
Allegheny Power's smart meter startup delayed - Pittsburgh TRIBUNE-REVIEW - 10-28-2009
Nashville Electric Service raises customer charge by 40 percent - The Tennessean - 10-28-2009
PULP Testimony for Assembly Hearings on Governor's Proposed Deficit Reduction Plan - 10-21-2009
No service, but lot has $354 water bill - Times Union - 10-18-2009
How Many People Does It take To Understand A Power Bill? - Times Union - 10-11-2009
SEPTEMBER 2009
Utility Consumers Need Protection - Letter to the Editor -Times Union - 09-28-2009
Signing with an ESCO: The Real Deal - WSYR-TV - 09-16-2009
Groups ask Governor Paterson to Support Cohoes Falls Hydro Project Alternative - 09-15-2009
AUGUST 2009
JULY 2009
Shocking Outcome - Power Scheme Cost New York Millions, but No Refund Is Due - Syracuse Post Standard Editorial -
07-28-2009
Saratoga County a Testing Ground for 'Smart Grid' - National Grid "Smart Grid" Technology Project Gets the Go-ahead in
Saratoga County - Times Union - 07-28-2009
Cash-strapped States Raid 911 Call-center Funds Collected from Wireless Bills - Associated Press - 07-24-2009
NASUCA Reply Comments on National Broadband Policy -
07-21-2009
Bronx Tenants Claim Faulty Meters Ran Up Massive Bills - NY1 News - 07-21-2009
Energy-Billing Practice Raises Tenants' Ire - NY Times City Room -Blog - 07-20-2009
F-ERC: 'Loop Flow' Wasn't Used to Raise Rates - Watertown Times - 07-18-2009
New Metered Electricity Bills Jolt Tenants in Forest Hills - N.Y. Daily News - 07-17-2009
Electric $Hocker - N.Y. Post - 07-17-2009
NYSEG, RG&E seek to alter program - Changes include eliminating fixed-rate options - Gannett - 07-16 -2009
LIPA Increases Reserve to Cover Delinquent Accounts - Newsday - 07-15-2009
Critics Say Utility Plan May Leave Some in Dark - Attorney General, Activists Vow Fight - Boston Globe - 07-14-2009
Consumer Advocates Raise Cost Issue In First-Time Smart Grid Policy - Energy Washington - 07-15-2009
Bigger Utility Bills, WRGB - CBS6 - 07-14-2009
Report: Utilities Took Too Long to Fix Power - Journal News - 07-07-2009
Re-Volting! Con Ed Eased Shock Tests - NY Post- 07-06-2009
JUNE 2009
Renewable Energy Mandates: An Analysis of Promises Made and Implications for Low Income Customers, Barbara R. Alexander, et al., June, 2009
Stimulus Funds Can Be Used for Utility Assistance to Prevent Homelessness -
The funds under this program are intended to target two populations of persons facing housing instability: 1) individuals and families who are currently in housing but are at risk of becoming homeless and need temporary rent or utility assistance to prevent them from becoming homeless or assistance to move to another unit (prevention), and 2) individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness (residing in emergency or transitional shelters or on the street) and need temporary assistance in order to obtain housing and retain it (rapid re-housing). - 06-25-2009
National Grid Turns out the Lights for Central New York Nonpayers - Syracuse Post Standard - 06-23-2009
City Takes Measures to Collect Unpaid Electric Bills - Plattsburgh Press Republican - 06-22-2009
Energy Efficiency Pool Hits $128m - Lawsuit from Corinth Operator Bars State from Spending Funds - Times Union -
06-20-2009
FERC Response to Letter from Sen. Mikulski - 06-17-2009
Sen. Mikulski's Letter to FERC Regarding Spot Market Rates
Analysis of the Pepco Smart Meter (AMI) Proposal in the District of Columbia - Testimony of Barbara Alexander - 06-19-2009
Massachusetts Low-Income Network Comments on "Smart Meter" Pilot Projects - 06-15-2009
Nation's Utility Consumer Advocates Call for Significant Consumer Voice in Electric Transmission and Wholesale Market Issues - NASUCA - 06-19-2009
Energy Plus Advertises up to 9.75% Tax Savings on Delivery Service Provided by Utility - 06-18-2009
Providing Cellphones for the Poor - NY Times - 06-15-2009
"No New Universal Service Fund Rate Says NASUCA" - BroadbandCensus.com - 06-10-2009
MAY 2009
States, Nonprofits Jockey for 'Weatherizing' Funds - Wall Street Journal - 05-28-2009
Typical Monthly Residential Electric Bills Comparison Chart -
05-27-2008
PULP files Comments in Case 09-M-0311 - Implementation of Chapter 59 of the Laws of 2009 Establishing a Temporary Annual Assessment Pursuant to PSL §18-a(6) - 05-15-2009
Yonkers Housing Authority Hires Honeywell for Energy Audit - Journal News -05-13-2009
NYISO Audit Warns of Conflicts - Federal Energy Agency Issues Report Following Three-Year Investigation - Albany Times Union - 05-13-2009
FERC issues unfavorable audit of NYISO - Times Union -
05-12-2009
National Grid Seeks 5 Percent Increase in Cost for Natural Gas - PSC Asked to OK Increase in Charge for Heating Fuel - Post Standard - 05-12-2009
More Con Ed $hockers - NY Post - 05-09-2009
Taxes, fees for phone and cable drive up costs - AM New York- 06-7-2009
NYISO Audit Report Faults "Market Monitoring" - 05-06-2009
Transparency in ERCOT: A No-cost Strategy to Reduce Electricity Prices in Texas-AARP - McCullough Research.- 05-05-2009
NYISO Response to Assembly Committees Questions - 05-04-2009
Taking Heat: Deregulation Held the Promise of Cheaper Natural Gas, but Some Consumers and Advocates Say Marketers Are Taking Advantage -- and Regulators Are Letting Them. - The Columbus Dispatch - 05-03-2009
APRIL 2009
Utility wants to keep plan secret - National Grid says releasing "smart grid" details could aid attack - Times Union -
04-30-2009
Benefits of Restructuring Revisited, Rudden Energy Strategies -
04-27-2009
Blue Ridge Issues Dire Report Against Cap and Trade - UpstateToday.com (SC) - 04-27-2009
Smart Meter, Dumb Idea? New Devices Promise to Cut Energy Use by Giving Consumers More Information. Critics Say They Aren't Worth the Cost. - Wall Street Journal -04-27-2009
HEAP Aid Requests in County Skyrocket - New Applicants Increase by 20% - Buffalo News - 04-24-2009
UNTESTED - Former BGE meter tester sheds light on higher bills
Investigative Voice - 04-22-2009
The Disappearing Land Line: Wireless-only Households Rising Fast as Cellphones Become a Necessity -Times Union - 04-20-2009
Verizon Seeks Rate Hike for Land-line Customers with Message-rate Service - Post Standard - 04-17-2009
Steam Plant Tries to Seize Syracuse University Property - Post Standard - 04-10-2009
NY Probe of Electricity Market Digs Deeper - Associated Press - Times Union - 04-09-2009
Legislature asks NYISO to Answer More Questions - 04-08-2009
Natural Gas Prices to Plummet in May - Newsday- 04-07-2009
The Static Over Smart Grids; Utilities say new technologies will boost efficiency and lower overall energy costs. But consumer advocates worry about fluctuating prices - Business Week -
04-05-2009
NYISO bidding raises questions - Critic of system says signs exist of possible market manipulation - Times Union - 04-03-2009
Sedgwick Avenue Tenants Battle Landlord on Several Fronts - Mount Hope Monitor - 04-02-2009
LIPA's Vision for Region's Energy Future Questioned - Newsday -04-01-2009
MARCH 2009
Energy Efficiency Opportunities Under the Stimulus Package -
03-31-2009
Deal Includes $632M Utility Tax Hike - Average CNY Bill Would Be Almost $4 More per Month - Syracuse Post Standard -
03-31-2009
McCullough Research Rebuts Criticism of Its Report on the New York Independent System Operator's Costly Market-Clearing Price Auctions - 03-31-2009
NYISO Assails Consultant's Critical Report - Agency Denies Claims That Market it Operates Overcharges New Yorkers - Times Union - 03-28-2009
Phone Smart - What Do Your Minutes Cost? You Can't Tell by the Cellphone Bill - NY Times - 03-26-2009
State Energy Board Pushed - Permanent Agency Would Replace One Created Earlier by Paterson - Times Union - 03-26-2009
Utility play: Ask $40, get $60, it's a deal! - THE ADVOCATE - Times Union - 03-22-2009
Utilities Criticize Paterson Tax Proposal - Increase in PSC Levy Would Raise Utility Bills by 2 Percent, They Say - Times Union -
03-17-2009
Schumer: Investigate NY electric rates - The Associated Press -
03-15-2009
No support at hearing for Central Hudson rate hike - Kingston Daily Freeman - 03-14-2009
Rate Hike Request Decried - Utility's Clients Cite Tight Budgets - Poughkeepsie Journal - 03-13-2009
Cost of modernizing LI power plants lower than expected - Newsday - 03-12-2009
Pennsylvania Consumer Advocate's Testimony on Consumer Issues and Climate Change Policy - 03-12-2009
LIPA Chief Mulls Buying Old Power Plants from Keyspan - Newsday.com- 03-12-2009
Petition of Indeck Challenging RGGI "Cap and Trade" Scheme -
03-11-2009
Investigate this shocking charge: Is there Enron-style manipulation of N.Y. electric bills? - NY Daily News - 03-10-2009
Leaders want Con Ed answers - BY Diana Castaldini - 03-10-2009
New York Governor Could Rewrite Carbon Trading Rules - Environmental News Service - 03-09-2009
There is cheap power - Hydro from upstate and Canada - Newsday - 03-09-2009
Paterson Downplays His Clean-air Position - Crains - 03-06-2009
Governor's 2010 Budget Proposals for Substantive Public Service Law Amendments, Part MM - 03-06-2009
Feasibility of State Re-regulation of Divested Power Plants in Maryland - 3-06-2009
Lawmakers, officials clash on energy sales: 'Market-clearing price' paid to generators is debated - Press & Sun Bulletin - 03-06-2009
NY Assembly: Re-regulate State Electricity Market -The Associated Press -
03-05-2009
NYISO openness needed, critic says: Author of study urges transparency in system's bidding process - Times Union - 03-05-2009
New Reports Reveal New Yorkers Overcharged $2.2 Billion on Electric Bills - Yonkers Tribune - 03-05-2009
The NYISO's Market-Clearing Price Auction Is Too Expensive for New York, McCullough Research - 03-04-2009
New Reports Reveal New Yorkers Overcharged $2.2 Billion on Electric Bills, Press Release of Richard L. Brodsky, Chairman, Committee on Corporations, Authorities, & Commissions - 03-03-2009
Lawmaker: N.Y. electricity pricing an 'insane' system - Change could save ratepayers $2.2 billion a year, he claims - Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin -
03-04-2009
Assemblyman blasts NYISO over rates - Brodsky touts new study critical of its method of setting electric prices - Albany Times Union - 03-04-2009
Assemblyman: NY energy system falls short - Newsday - 03-04-2009
Assembly Dems: NYers overpay for electricity - The Associated Press - 03-03-2009
O'Malley outlines partial re-regulation of energy industry State would have authority over new plants - The Baltimore Sun - 03-03-2009
Governor Martin O'Malley Introduces Legislation for 'Rational Reregulation' of Energy in Maryland-Press Release - 03-02-2009
FEBRUARY 2009
Sticker Shock: PSC must Do More to Protect Utility Customers - Editorial, Syracuse Post Standard - 02-27-2009
LIPA Bills More than Double at Ridge Senior Community - Newsday,com -
02-27-2009
Thousands of Upstate utility customers receive termination notices from National Grid, NYSEG - But National Grid, at the state's request, has shut off very few customers this year. - Post Standard - 02-26-2009
Y State Says Utilty Cutoffs Jumped in 2008 - THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - Newsday.com - 02-25-2009
Power deregulation endangered: Bill now in Assembly would change the way electricity is sold in state - Albany Times Union- 02-25-2009
PSC Seat Hearings Sought - Times Union - 02-25-2009
Multiple Intervenors' Petition for Declaratory Ruling to Utilize $220 M RGGI Greenhouse Gas Allowance Revenue to Reduce $330 M PSC Surcharges for Energy Efficiency Costs -
02-24-2009
Judge Makowski Resigns, Attorney Pleads Guilty in Tampering Case: admits Illegal Actions in Drunken-Driving Case - Buffalo News - 02-21-2009
Project online despite report from grid operator - Hornell Evening Tribune -
02-24-2009
Bronx Tenant Association Objects to PSC Staff Proposal to "Streamline" Electric Submetering Rules - 02-20-2009
Hazel Towers Tenants Association Comments - 02-19-2009
Court ruling hailed by NYRI opponents -Observer-Dispatch - 02-18-2009
Exelon-NRG Merger Protest Filed at FERC by Public Citizen - 02-17-2009
State Freezes Plan to Have Tenants Pay Electric Bills - N.Y. Times 02-15-2009
Advocates Push Feds on Execs' Pay - New Haven Register - 02-14-2009
PULP files Comments on the 2009-2010 State HEAP Plan - 02-13-2009
2008 Individual State Report by the NARUC Consumer Affairs Subcommittee On Collections Data Gathering - 02-12-2009
In Court With Con Ed, a Glimpse of Life During a Downturn - N.Y. Times -
02-12-2009
Pitch Was Good, but Energy Bills Climbed: Salesman Didn't Deliver Promised Savings for Gas, Electricity - Syracuse Post Standard - 02-09-2009
Some Tenants Face an Unfamiliar Squeeze on Their Pocketbooks: An Electric Bill -
N.Y. Times - 02-09-2009
Scammers' Power Sting - N.Y. Post - 02-08-2009
N.Y. Power Authority Surplus Will Go to State, Not Customers - Buffalo News -
02-07-2009
Stimulus Bill to Include $109 Million in Weatherization Funds for Upstate NY - Little Falls Evening Times - 02-06-2009
NYRI: Group's Rule Could Deter Investors: Destito: Power Line Plan Is 'On Life Support' - Observer-Dispatch - 02-05-2009
Typical Monthly Residential Electric Bills Comparison Chart - LIPA Included -
02-04-2009
Comptroller's First LIPA Audit Report Anticlimactic - Newsday - 02-04-2009
Hearings Set on Plan for Fourth Nuclear Reactor at Nine Mile Point in Scriba - Post Standard - 02-04-2009
JANUARY 2009
Paterson Needs to Put ‘Public' Back in the PSC - Buffalo News - 01-30-2009
New Yorkers for Fair and Affordable Utility Service Press Conference - 01-29-2009
Another Paterson Appointment Brings More Concern About the Process - PolitickerNY.com - 01-29-2009
Michigan Senior's Freezing Death Preventable, Relative Says - CNN - 01-29-2009
Groups Call on Governor to put the "Public" Back in the Public Service Commission, New Yorkers for Fair and Affordable Utility Service - 01-29-2009
Tribe Pursues Energy Relief - Press Republican - 01-29-2009
Report: N.Y. Can Meet Power Needs until 2018 - The Journal News - 01-29-2009
Skepticism About Plan to Shutter Power Plant - NY Times - 01-29-2009
Energy East Asks for Rate Increase - Democrat & Chronicle - 01-29-2009
RG&E Files for Rate Increase - Democrat & Chronicle - 01-28-09
NYSEG Seeking a Rate Increase - PSC Must OK Request That Would Raise Average Month Bill $21 - Times Union - 01-28-2009
Safety Net for Needy Endangered by State Budget Cuts: Young People Feeling Effects on Programs - Buffalo News - 01-27-2009
Paterson to Fill Vacancies on PSC - Terms for Two Members of Powerful State Agency about to Expire - Times Union- 01-27-2009
LIPA 3-month Arrears Hit $50M in December - Newsday - 01-26-2009
Man Freezes to Death after City Limits Electricity: 93-year-old Man Had Almost $1,100 in Unpaid Electric Bills - Associated Press - 01-26-2009
Consumer Groups Oppose Utility "Revenue Decoupling" Proposals in Economic Stimulus Legislation - 01-26-2009
HEAP Funds Still Available in Broome - Eligibility Guidelines for Income Raised - Press & Sun Bulletin - 01-26-2009
Con Ed Price Shock - NY Post - 01-26-2009
Power Authority Opposes Marcy South NYRI Line - Observer-Dispatch -
01-23-2009
Give upstate a voice - Utilities oversight commission needs a Western New Yorker - The Buffalo News - 01-22-2009
Paterson Budget Includes New Fee for LIPA - Newsday - 01-22-2009
State Agency Cool to Request by RG&E Parent for Rate Increase, Capital Spending Cuts - Democrat & Chronicle- 01-22-2009
Families Struggle to Pay Monthly Heat Bills - The Journal News - 01-19-2009
PSC, 'Tribune of the People' - Albany Times Union - 01-17-2009
Streamlined Utility Shut-offs Have Turned Deadly for the Poor - Harrisburg Patriot News - 01-16-2009
National Grid seeks refunds from Malone, Saranac Lake - Plattsburgh Press Republican -01-15-2009
Niagara Mohawk's "Self-Imposed Moratorium" on Winter and Cold Weather Terminations of Service - 01-14-2009
Kelliher's Resignation Foretells Major Changes at FERC - Zeus - 01-14-2009
Blumenthal Applauds FERC Commissioner's Resignation - Legal Newsline -
01-13-2009
Governor urges delay of transition from analog to digital television - The Citizen - 01-13-2009
ESCO Tax Subsidies: A Hidden High Cost of New York PSC’s “Retail Access” Scheme - 01-12-2009
Utility Tax Error - Don't hold ratepayer responsible - Watertown Daily Times -
01-12-2009
Utility Bills Proving a Burden - Kingston Daily Freeman - 01-12-2009
National Grid Requests $400,000 from City: Says Taxes Were Overpaid to Utica - Observer-Dispatch - 01-11-2009
Utility Wants $13 Million: National Grid Stuns Cities in Seeking Refund of What it Says Were Tax Overpayments - Times Union - 01-10-2009
NYS and Energy: a Case Study - Empire Page Guest Editorial - 01-08-2009
Switch to Digital TV Still Fuzzy for Some - Rochester Democrat & Chronicle -
01-09-2009
National Grid Wants its Money Back - WSYR TV - 01-08-2009
National Grid Demands Syracuse, Other Upstate Municipalities Return Tax Overpayments - Syracuse Post Standard - 01-07-2009
DECEMBER
The Power of Municipal Power - Boston Globe Editorial -
12-29-2008
Unpaid Utility Bills Piling Up: State Takes Steps to Help Customers, Power Companies - Post Standard - 12-28-2008
Robert Catell to leave executive post at National Grid -Newsday- 12-18-2008
Ginna owner rejects Buffett - Democrat & Chronicle -
12-18-2008
Deficit falls off session agenda: Special Senate meeting accomplishes little other than job confirmations - Times Union -
12-16-2008
Rell Can Put Her Own Stamp on DPUC - New Haven Register -
12-15-2008
Regulators Order More Tests to Find Electric Problems - Journal News - 12-11-2008
Under Pressure, LIPA Eyes Cut to 4.8 Percent Rate Hike - Newsday - 12-11-2008
Paterson to LIPA: Go Back to the Drawing Board on Rate Hike - Newsday - 12-09-2008
Cost of Winter Heating Appears to Be Cooling off - Rochester Democrat & Chronicle - 12-08-2008
Angry Ratepayers Forcing LIPA to Look at its Future - Newsday- 12-06-08
LIPA Projects 17.2% Bill Increase over next 5 Years - Newsday - 12-04-2008
CenHud Won’t Cut Electricity To Customers Who Can’t Pay - Middletown Record - 12-04-208
NOVEMBER
Public Citizen's Intervention and Protest of MidAmerican's Proposed Acquisition of Constellation Energy - 11-28-2008
New Chief of NYPA Says Grid Needs an Upgrade - Watertown Times -11-28-2008
Schumer Seeks to Ease Digital TV Conversion - Buffalo News -
11-25-2008
A Wild Ride with LIPA: Ratepayers May Soon Take the Ups and Downs of Oil Prices Bill by Bill - Newsday Editorial - 11-24-2008
Mohawks to vote on power system - Plattsburgh Press Republican - 11-20-2008
Schumer Wants Open Investigation of Energy Trading- Plattsburgh Press Republican - 11-19-2008
LIPA Eyes New Billing System - Newsday.com - 11-19-2008
Indian Pt. Discount on Electricity to Expire - The Journal News-
11-18-08
Backfire: Cuts on the Needy Won't Help: a Raft of Painful Funding Reductions Is Not the Best Way out of the State's Budget Crisis. - City Limits - 11-17-08
Big Increase Expected in HEAP Applications - Buffalo News -
11-13-08
Special Session Budget Cuts Proposed by Governor Paterson -
11-12-08
List of Legal Aid Appropriations - 11-12-08
Home heat aid requests surge : Albany County receives 40 percent increase in applications for help - Associated Press -
11-12-08
Attorney General Cuomo Announces Nearly Two Million For First-Ever State Program To Pay For Vital Oil Efficiency Upgrades In Low-Income Households Across NYS - Press Release - 11-10-08
State Power Costs Could Kill Jobs, Executive Says - The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - 11-07-2008
Electric markets are broken, Pa. officials told - Associated Press - 11-07-2008
Pennsylvania PUC to hold third hearing on wholesale market prices - Platts 11-07-2008
NYPA's Kessel Eyes Wind Farm, Underwater Cable - Newsday -
11-07-08
More seeking help with heating costs - Officials anticipate higher demand for aid - Daily Gazette - 11-04-2008
OCTOBER
County Gives One-time Heating Credit - Newsday - 10-23-2008
Unpaid Bills Chill Utilities: Psc Seeks Ways to Ensure Delinquent Accounts Don't Sink Credit Ratings - Times Union - 10-16-2008
NY regulators consider energy marketing crackdown - The Press Republican - 10-15-2008
Hard Times, harder times - Times Union Editorials - 10-13-2008
Governor Paterson Launches Statewide Campaign To Assist Vulnerable New Yorkers With Rising Heating Costs - Press Release - 10-10-2008
More Con Ed Customers Having Power Turned Off - Times City Room Blog - 10-09-2008
Without Electricity, Family Relied on Kerosene Lantern That Exploded - Police: Victims in Critical Condition - Middletown Times Herald Record - 10-09-2008
Winter forecast for Rochester: Expect higher gas bills - Rochester Democrat & Chronicle - 10-09-2008
Record Number of LIPA Customers Making Late Payments - Newsday, 10-08-2008
In bad economy, power cutoffs soar - Associated Press -
10-06-2008
Con Ed Summer of $Lam - NY Post - 10-06-2008
Towns Feel Bullied by Verizon Lawsuits - Glens Falls Post Star - 10-06-2008
Columnist Bob Kerr: Utilities shutoff should be made more difficult - Providence Journal - 10-03-2008
Outraged Protestors Demand PUC Return Service to Deliquent Ratepayers - Warwick, R.I. Beacon - 10-02-2008
Natural gas for winter heating should be plentiful - Industry predicts plenty of natural gas, stable prices for heating this winter - Associated Press - 10-02-2008
Chart of Typical Monthly Residential Electric Bills - 10-01-2008
State Looks to Cushion Blow of Winter Heating Costs - Gannett News Service - Ithaca Journal, - 10-01-2008
SEPTEMBER
Full Plate for State Energy Planners: with Much to Consider, One Thing Is Clear: Already High Electricity Rates Will Increase -Times Union - 09-25-2008
Governor Paterson's Veto Message of Utility Call Center Bill - 09-25-2008
Schumer: NY likely to get nearly $500M in heat aid - Plattsburgh Press - 09-25-2008
Protecting New York in winter - Time Union - 09-23-2008
LIHEAP Funds Released By Feds Not Enough to Meet Need According to New York Advocates - Pat Bradley - WAMC - 09-20-2008
How the state abused your monthly cell phone tax - The Post-Standard - 09-21-2008
Turn up the Heat on Heating Help - Newsday Editorial - 09-21-2008
Schumer pushes for reimbursement for shady electric charges - Plattsburgh Press Republican - 09-18-2008
Schumer Pushes Probe of Scheme That Overcharged
N. Y. Power Users - Buffalo News- 09-18-2008
U.S. Anxiety about Staying Warm this Winter Spreads - USA Today - 09-15-2008
Paterson to Unveil More Home-heating Aid - Newsday - 09-09-2008
Power Play Costs $100M: Traders Mine a Seam to Pay less for Electricity, but Cause New York Consumers to Pay More. - Times Union - 09-07-2008
Gov. Paterson Vetoes LIPA Rate Review Bill - Newsday - 09-05-2008
Energy deal could save customers $40 annually - Rochester Democrat & Chronicle - 09-05-2008
O&R customers will see electricity prices drop - Times Herald-Record - 09-03-2008
An Alternative to Con Ed Revs Up Its Sales Force - NY Times - 09-01-2008
AUGUST
Agency says power costs inflated: Alcoa's bill jumps $5m in first half of '08; FERC probes charges of manipulation - Watertown Times-
08-30-2008
Was power overpriced by $100 million? - Complex tradesmay have boosted bills in state - Buffalo News - 08-27-2008
Secret Probe in Power Scam - NY Post- 08-22-2008
PULP Utility Bill Estimator Now Available for Central Hudson Customers - PULP Blog - 08-20-2008
PSC Makes ESCO Service Comparisons Difficult - PULP Blog - 08-18-2008
RGGI: How Not to Design a Carbon Market - Greentechmedia - 08-19-2008
Politicians, Business Leaders Rally to Make Con Edison See the Light - NY Daily News - 08-18-2008
Schumer Demanding Investigation into Energy Charges - Plattsburgh Press Republican - 08-13-2008
PA Boss Ditches Moonlight Gig - NY Daily News- 08-11-2008
Shocking Power Scam Jolt$ NY Consumers -NY Post -08-11-2008
Schumer: Did Power Trades Cost Millions?- Post Standard-08-13-2008
Emission Control Regulation Dispute - Poughkeepsie Journal - 08-13-2008
Schumer Demands Federal Investigation Into Energy Trading Scam That Fleeced NY Consumers Of Untold Millions And Put NY-Area Power Grid At Risk Of Blackout - Press Release - 08-12-2008
Governor Proposes 50% Cut in State Funding for Civil Legal Services - 08-12-2008
PULP Opposes Niagara Mohawk's Interim Gas Efficiency Program - PULP Blog - 08-08-2008
A Well Kept Secret: Con Edison's Low Income Rate - PULP Blog - 08-07-2008
APPA asks FERC to Scrutinize 'High, Unexplained' Transmission Charges in Region Overseen by NYISO - APPA Power Daily - 08-06-2008
Hall, Hinchey push heating cost relief: More money for bill-paying program, tax credits advocated - Poughkeepsie Journal -08-06-2008
Alarm Sounded Over Heating: Assembly Democrats Say Time is Running Out to Address Higher Costs - Albany Times Union - 08-05-2008
More in NY Eligible to Get Help Staying Warm - Associated Press - 08-05-2008
Assembly Democrats Favor Heating Assistance over Break in Property Taxes - Ithaca Journal - 08-05-2008
FERC Case ER08-1281 - Motion of Public Utility Law Project of New York, Inc. to Intervene and for other relief -08-01-2008
JULY
Testimony of George C. Loehr, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee - 07-31-2008
Central Hudson Formally Submits Rate Hike Request - Daily Freeman - 07-31-2008
Heating Bills Are Heading Through the Roof: Natural Gas Users Will Spend 43 Percent More this Winter to Heat Their Homes, U. S. Predicts - Buffalo News - 07-31-2008
Dealers Laud Paterson's Focus on Fuel - Times Herald Record - 07-31-2008
New York ISO Moves to Cut off Loop Routing as Cost of Strategy Mounts for Whole Market - Platts- 07-28-2008
Verizon Begins Competing for Cable TV Customers - NY Times - 07-28-2008
Pol: Slam Door on Utility Scam - Daily News - 07-27-2008
Customers fleeced by utility scammers - New York Daily News - 07-26-2008
Cut power now, households urged; The electricity industry has called on households to start cutting their power use now to get ready for emissions trading. - TheAge.com.au Cathy Alexander- 07-25-2008
Power Grid Closes Costly Loophole: Rule Bars Power
Traders from Creating Certain Interstate Transactions That Strain Lines, up Price. - Syracuse Post Standard - 07-24-2008
Enron-Like Gaming of NYISO Market Rules: Did it Cost New York Consumers $125 Million? - PULP Blog - 07-23-2008
High electric bill? Curse the feds - NY Daily News Editorial - 07-22-2008
Paterson, Top State Lawmakers Discuss Economic Downturn - Newsday - 07-21-2008
Time of Use Rates and "Smart Meters" - PULP Blog - 07-21-2008
LIPA's program energy project tests has mixed results - Newsday - 07-20-2008
Paterson forecasts problems with budget, utility costs - Buffalo News - 07-21-2008
PULP Comments on 2008-2009 State HEAP Plan-7-18-2008
Winter Could Test Energy Math; Rising Heat Costs May Be Last Straw For Family Budgets - Wall Street Journal -
07-18-2008
U.S. Report Shows Spike in Energy Costs for Households in New York Region - NY Times -07-18-2008
Deregulation Jolts Texas Electric Bills - Wall Street Journal - 07-17-2008
PULP Comments on HEAP Plan 2008-2009 - PULP Blog - 07-17-2008
$2.53b More Requested for Home Heating Help - Times Herald-Record - 07-17-2008
State Scraps Plans for $1.6 Billion Power Plant in Town of Tonawanda - Buffalo News - 07-17-2008
It Was the [NYISO] Market - PULP Blog - 07-14-2008
olar still a tough sell - Miami Herald - 07-13-2008
Mayor Bloomberg Does Math on Poverty: More Poor in City - DAILY NEWS -07-13-2008
HEAP Applications Expected to Soar: More to Ask for Help with Heating Bills - Schenectady Gazette - 07-12-2008
PULP's Con Edison Bill Estimator - PULP Blog - 07-11-2008
Excelsior! Excelsior! Con Edison Rates Peak Again: Bills Up 30% Since May - PULP Blog - 07-11-2008
New Shocker from Con Ed: Forget 13% Hike, Now It's 22% Thanks to Soaring Oil - N.Y. Daily News -07-11-2008
Electric Bills for Con Ed Customers Will Soar - NY Times Blog - 07-11-2008
NY Electric Bills Surge as Fuel Prices Soar -Forbes, AP - 07-11-2008
Get Ready for 22% Hike: Con Ed - NY Post - 07-11-2008
Dual roles a hurdle in Iberdrola's takeover of RG&E parent - Rochester Democrat & Chronicle - 07-11-2008
PSC weighs shift in utilities' way of buying power - Baltimore Sun - 07-10-2008
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PULP Blog - 07-09-2008
`Green Power' Programs Not Widely Used - The Associated Press - 07-08-2008
OTDA to Hold Hearings and Receive Comments on Draft 2008 - 09 HEAP Plan - PULP Blog - 07-03-2008
N.Y. wants to aid poor -- but how to afford it? - Press & Sun Bulletin - 07-03-2008
Trouble Ahead: Outlook for Home Heating Costs Worsens - PULP Blog - 07-02-2008
Leaders Discuss Looming Home Energy Crisis - PULP Blog - 07-02-2008
State Aims to Help Families Struggling to Buy Food - NY Times - 07-02-2008
Heating Costs in State Might Rise 40%, Officials Warn at Meeting - Buffalo News 07-02-2008
Congestion Costs On The Rise: BPU Incurring Significantly Higher Charges
Jamestown Post Journal - 07-01-2008
JUNE
Natural Gas Prices at Henry Hub, LA, 2003 - 2008 - Apache Corp. - 06-30-2008
Natural Gas Future Prices, NYMEX Strip June 2008 - June 2011 - Apache Corp.- 06-30-2008
Home Heating Oil and Crude Oil Prices 2003 - June 2008, Apache Corp. - 06-30-2008
Is deregulation of electricity hurting consumers? - Rochester Democrat & Chronicle - 06-30-2008
State Plan on Energy Is Overdue - Utica Observer-Dispatch - 06-29-2008
Legislature Passes Bill Requiring PSC to Review LIPA Rates - PULP Blog -
06-27-2008
PSC Approves Grid "Affordability" Program in Which HEAP Payments Do Not Reduce Current Winter Bills - 06-27-2008
Summer NYISO Electricity Prices 123% Higher - 06-27-2008
Supreme Court Leaves Fundamental Questions About FERC Market Rate Scheme Unanswered - 06-26-2008
PSC Plan Will Cost Consumers - Press & Sun-Bulletin - 06-20-2008
The Trouble With Markets for Carbon--NY Times, June 20, 2008
Consumer Groups Ask PSC for More Input on Verizon Cable Franchise for New York City - 06-19-2008
Class Tests Carbon Trading, With Troubling Results - NPR- 06-18-2008
Utility alters arrears credit program - Daily Gazette - 06-19-2008
Agency OKs Change to Heat Aid Program - Post Standard-06-19-2008
NY State Assembly Resolution Urges Congress to Increase LIHEAP Funding - 06-18-2008
Mayor upset over latest round of exorbitant electric charges - Plattsburgh Press - 06-18-2008
Con Edison Electricity Rates for Energy Spike 21% in June - PULP Blog- 06-18-2008
Port Authority boss also earns 100G as part of nonprofit's board - DAILY NEWS - 06-17-2008
Assembly Advances Comprehensive Energy Strategy Aimed At Giving New Yorkers Real Reform - Press Release - 06-17-2008
NY Assembly Bill Would Use Windfall Recapture Tax on Oil Companies to Supplement HEAP and Weatherization Programs - PULP Blog - 06-17-2008
Defaults, Credit Crunch Lead New York ISO to Review Policies - Platts -
06-16-2008
Power Firms' Treatment Angers Texans - Prices Aren't the Only Thing Skyrocketing in the State's Deregulated Electricity Market. - Austin Star Telegram -06-16-2008
Windfall Recapture Tax Would Generate New State Funds to Supplement HEAP and Weatherization Programs - NY Assembly Bill 11590 - 06-13-2008
Campaign for Fair Electric Rates Urges Reform of Wholesale Electricity Markets - PULP Blog - 06-13-2008
Wages of 30% of New Yorkers Do Not Cover Minimum Needs - PULP Blog - 06-13-2008
Working-Poor Ranks Grew, Report Says: Economic Security Hearings under Way - Poughkeepsie Journal - 06-13-2008
Our Power, Their Dollars: Authority Reaps Windfall as Low-Cost Electricity Lacks More Local Customers - Buffalo News - 06-09-2008
Rising Prices May Dim the Lights: Surge in Utility Shut-offs Likely - Schenectady Daily Gazette-06-08-2008
Power Brokers: National Grid doesn't need Albany-style slush fund - Post Standard Editorial - 06-08-2008
White Plains Landlord Submetering Electricity Without PSC Approval - PULP Blog - 06-07-2008
National Grid Misses Point with its Low Income Program - PULP Blog - 06-07-2008
This Summer Will Be Powerful: Con Ed - Daily News - 06-06-2008
Wholesale Electricity Capacity Market Results Attacked by PA, MD, DE and NJ Utility Commissions and Utility Consumer Advocates - PULP Blog - 06-05-2008
Early Termination Fees - PULP Blog - 06-04-2008
Early Termination Fees Playing out in High-Stakes Battles in Court, Congress - RCRNews.com 06-04-2008
Electricity said to be too costly; Consumer advocates say plant expansion hasn't happened - Allentown Morning Call -06-04-2008
Consumer Groups Fight Verizon Early Termination Plan - TMCnet.com - 06-02-2008
Heating Oil Prices Remain High - PULP Blog - 06-03-2008
Heating-Oil Prices Are Nearly Double this Time Last Year - Plattsburgh Press Republican - 06-02-2008
MAY
Say Watt? Con Ed Bills May Soar a Re'volt'ing 30% - NY Post - 05-30-2008
PULP Files Reply Comments on the PSC’s Proposed ESCO Marketing Standards - PULP Blog - 05-30-2008
Assembly GOP seeks winter heating relief - Elmira Star Gazette - 05-30-2008
Schumer to National Grid: Use $2.9B to fix plant-Newsday - 05-29-2008
Global Demand Squeezing Natural Gas Supply - N.Y. Times - 05-29-2008
NY Wholesale Electricity Prices May Rise 89% Due to Rising Natural Gas Prices - PULP Blog - 05-29-2008
Reaction to National Grid's Rate Hike Request, WRVO Radio, (MP3)-05-28-2008
County, State Oppose Entergy Spinoff Plan - The Journal News - 05-27-2008
Cell Phone Gaps Are Fewer, but Still an Issue in Adirondacks - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Buffalo News, 05-26-2008
Grid: Raise Gas Rates 10%: Average Bill Would Rise $135 a Year . . . Not Counting the Price of the Natural Gas. - Syracuse Post Standard - 05-24-2008
Bill Would Require PSC to More Closely Scrutinize Telephone Area Code Changes - PULP Blog - 05-23-2008
Chart for Enrollment Numbers of Lifeline Customers in New York State 1988 - 2007 - 05-23-2008
The Economics of Low Income Energy Assistance in New York: No Wonder They Call Economics the “Dismal” Science - Life Conference Presentation - Dr. T.J. Renwick and G.A. Norlander - 05-21-2008
Don't Get Burned: The Risks of Investing in New Coal-Fired Generating Facilities, Synapse Energy Economics - 05-2008
Energy inquiry has soft landing - Baltimore Sun - 05-21-2008
Lawmaker sees expanded state energy board: Executive order doesn't go far enough, chairman of key Assembly panel tells power producers - Times Union- 05-15-2008
Should Telecom Customer Migration Rules be Extended to New Carriers? - PULP Blog - 05-15-2008
MOBTOWN BEAT: Powerbrokers or Bone Breakers? Public Service Commission Hears Bizarre Allegations- BALTIMORE CITY PAPER - 05-14-2008
Summer Juice Bill to Give Jolt - Con Ed Warns Electric Bills Will Be Higher Due to Rising Costs of Other Energy Sources. - Daily News- 05-12-2008
National Power raising electricity prices - The Dallas Morning News - 05-12-2008
NY PSC Asks FERC Not to Limit Access to NYISO Market Data - PULP Blog - 05-12-2008
Parties File Statements Supporting Proposed Settlement of Con Edison Queens Outage Prudence Proceeding - PULP Blog - 05-12-2008
AMPS, a Submetering Company, Withdraws Request for Court Injunction to Shut off Tenant's Electricity - PULP Blog - 05-12-2008
PULP Asks PSC to Reconsider Refusal to Investigate Alternative to New Area Code in 315 - PULP Blog - 05-07-2008
PULP Petition for Rehearing and Clarification in Case
07-C-1486 - Proceeding to Investigate and Evaluate Options for Making Additional Central Office Codes Available in the 315 Area Code - 05-07-2008
National Grid Wants to Go Green, with Your Money: a Typical Household Would Pay $1.50 to $3 a Month More, but Could Get Rebates for Energy-efficient Equipment. - Post Standard - 05-06-2008
National Grid Unveils Plan to Cut Energy Costs - Buffalo News - 05-06-2008
315 Options Present Problems: Public Hearings Might Help PSC Determine the Best Area-code Alternative - Observer-Dispatch - 05-04-2008
HEAP Program to Close in May - PULP Blog - 05-01-2008
Protection of Customers of Cooperative Utilities Under Power Authority Regulations - PULP Blog - 05-01-2008
Rising fuel prices may spawn LIPA summer bill hike - Newsday - 05-01-2008
Senator Slams PSC in Deal: Schumer Calls Regulator "Stone-headed" in Wind Stance Against Iberdrola - Times Union - 05-01-2008
APRIL
Why many state regulators still have qualms about endorsing smart meters. - Fortnightly - 04-2008
PSC Denies Request for Open Inquiry and Continues with 315 Area Code Changes - PULP Blog - 04-30-2008
Parties Propose Resolution of Con Edison Queens Outage Prudence Proceeding - 04-25-2008
Cutoffs and Pleas for Aid Rise With Heat Costs - NY Times- 04-25-2008
Utility must give customers savings - It's unclear how much they will receive as a result of PSC's order to National Grid. - 04-24-2008
Is There a Need for a "Broadband" Universal Service Fund? - 04-23-2008
FCC to Require Improved Reporting of Broadband Deployment and Subscribership - 04-22-2008
See No Evil: FERC Refuses to Examine Gaming of RTO/ISO Electricity Spot Market - 04-22-08
Decade of Deregulation Felt in Climbing Bills - Washington Post - 04-18-2008
Energy East buyer wary of PSC - Rochester Democrat & Chronicle - 04-16-2008
Green Island invests in power, and its future - Village plans aggressive expansion of its peak capacity in order to support a growing industrial base - Times Union-
04-08-2008
ENERGY PRICES: Will climate change law leave some consumers out in the cold? - ClimateWire- 04-03-2008
Serving State's Energy Needs: Power Plant Siting Bill, Planning Funds, Pipelines Discussed - Times Union- 04-03-2008
National Grid Policy of Denying Utility Service to Minors Challenged - 04-01-2008
More Long Islanders paying electric bills late - Newsday - 04-01-2008
March
Doing Power Regulation Right - Washington Post-
03-31-2008
RE-VOLTING: CON ED MUST DO MORE SWEEPS - NY Post 03-31-2008
Area Code Change Comments Suspended - Herkimer Evening Telegram - 03-28-2008
Landlords Charging Tenants for Utility Service? - 03-28-2008
ESCO Marketing Practices Subject of New PSC Proceeding - 03-28-2008
Retail Electric Rates in Deregulated and Regulated States: A Ten Year Comparison: Increases in retail electric prices were significantly greater in states with deregulated electric markets than in regulated states. APPA Report, March 2008
Public Service Commission to National Grid: "Lighten Up" - WWNY TV - From the Associated Press - Watertown, NY- 03-20-2008 (Including Comments of 29 People)
National Grid's `One Grand Demand' Struck Down - Schenectady Daily Gazette - 03-20-2008
PSC Nullifies National Grid's $1,000 "Grand Plan" Requirement for Utility Service - 03-19-2008
NY regulator: National Grid must be more lenient on payment plans - The Associated Press - 03-19-2008
Rates Go Up for Con Ed Power Delivery - NY Times - 03-19-2008
National Grid Told to Change Default Payment Practices: Utility’s “One-Size-Fits-All” Approach to Defaulted Payments Not Fair to Consumers - 3-19-2008
NYERS GET $HOCKED - NY Post - 03-17-2008
CARBON KING: Economist Strikes Gold In Climate-Change Fight Pollution Market Seen as Test for U.S.;One 'Surreal' Fall - The Wall Street Journal 03-13-2008
PULP Asks PSC to Require National Grid to Provide Answers to Questions in "Grand Plan" Case - PULP Blog -03-14-2008
National Grid Deducts from Customers Twice - Glens Falls Post Star - 03-14-2008
Review of Energy Policies Urged: Study Says State Could Help Ratepayers by Capping NYSERDA Fee, Leaving Greenhouse Gas Consortium - Times Union - 03-13-2008
Unaccounted- Power Sends Tri-Lakes Electric Bills Soaring - Plattsburgh Pres-s Republican - 03-06-2008
Electricity Prices and Costs Under Regulation and Restructuring - Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center - 03-2008
PSC Should Investigate Village of Ilion Utility Deposit Requirement - PULP Blog - 03-04-2008
Ilion's Utility Deposit Takes its Toll - Observer-Dispatch - 03-04-2008
Spain Elections Could Send Fresh Jolt Through Power Sector - Dow Jones -03-02-2008
February 2008
Needy Households Must Stop Paying Energy Provider to Obtain Supplemental HEAP Benefits - 03-03-2008
Consumers in Peril: Why RTO-Run Electricity Markets Fail to Produce Just and Reasonable Electric Rates, APPA, February 2008
PULP Urges HEAP Program Reform - 02-28-2008
PULP Comments for 2008-2009 HEAP Needs Assessment - 02-27-2008
Reply Brief is Support of Motion to File Amicus Brief in Cohoes Falls Hydro Case, 02-27-2008
Low-income electricity customers in Texas to get discount- The Dallas Morning News- 02-25-2008
Verizon Re-Launches Automatic Enrollment for Lifeline - 02-25-2008
Queens Outage Update: ALJ Requires Con Edison to File Testimony on Prudence and Negligence Issues - 02-25-2008
Residential Submetering Update - 02-22-2008
Governor Spitzer’s Budget Leaves PULP’s Survival to the Legislature - 02-21-2008
Groups Vow to Fight Carbon Emissions Cap-and-Trade Plan - The Los Angeles Times - 02-20-2008
National Fuel Targets Door-to-Door Marketers - Buffalo News 02-16-2008
Electricity Price Trends Deregulated vs. Regulated States - Power In the Public Interest - Marilyn Showalter - 2-12-2008
Report Finds Doubling of Gap in Rates Between Deregulated, Regulated States - Power Daily- 02-13-2004
Utility Merger Gains Support: Iberdrola SA's $4.5B Buyout of NYSEG Parent is Backed by State Agencies Despite Objections of PSC Staff - Times Union- 02-13-2008
Experts Pan Electric Markets - Utilities Should Buy Power Under Long-term Contracts, PUC Member Says. - Of The Morning Call - 02-13-2008
Hydropower Plan Generates Friends: Scenic Hudson Backs Proposed Plant Upstream from Cohoes Falls - Times Union- 02-13-2008
Energy Contracts Spark High-Stakes Supreme Court Case - The National Law Journal - 02-13-2008
Amicus Brief Challenge FERC Refusal to Consider Better Use of Historic Cohoes Falls - PULP Blog - 02-12-2008
Bush Proposes Elimination of Low Income Home Weatherization Program - PULP Blog - 02-11-2008
Bush Proposes LIHEAP Cuts in 2009 Budget - PULP Blog - 02-11-2008
Cop Who Shot Kid Has 'Light' Excuse - N.Y. Post - 02-09-2008
The High Cost of Restructuring - Fortnightly - 02-08-2008
As Energy Costs Increase, Broader Safety Net must Be Put in Place to Keep People Warm - PennLive, 02-08-2008
Sides joust over electric choice law's effects - MLive.com - 02-07-2008
NYSEG customers not being choosy - Press & Sun Bulletin - 02-07-2008
Sanders Continues LIHEAP Fight - WCAX News -02-06-2008
Bush Budget Puts Weatherization in the Cold - U.S. News & World Report, 02-06-2008
GOV. RITTER CRITICIZES PRESIDENT BUSH'S BUDGET PROPOSAL - Cherry Creek CO News - 02-05-2008
Elected Officials Object to Con Ed Request for DSM Dollars - 02-05-2008
Testimony of Dr. Trudi Renwick, Senior Economist for Fiscal Policy Institute before the Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means Committees Joint Public Hearing on Human Services - 02-05-2008
“Fuel for heating allowances have not been increased since 1987. Since that time average prices for electricity have increased by 163
percent, the cost of natural gas has increased 141 percent and the cost of fuel oil has increased 310 percent. For example, public assistance families in Albany using fuel oil to heat their homes are given only $828 per year to pay for home heating costs. Families heating with natural gas are given only about $700.”
PULP Files Comments on Regulation of ESCO Sales Practices - 02-04-2008
Bush Budget Ignores Realities of Low-Income Americans - NCAF Press Release - 02-04-2008
January 2008
Governor Rendell Announces Boost in Home Heating Crisis Funds for Low-Income Residents - US Newswire - 01-30-2008
Charles F. Luce, Ex-Chief of Con Ed, Is Dead at 90 - N.Y. Times - 01-29-2008
Family’s Experiment With Welfare Grant Shows Need For A Boost In Funding - Times Union - 01-20-2008
NFG Directed by PSC to Eliminate Late Charges on Deferred Payment Agreements - 01-16-2008
PULP Files Supreme Court Amicus Brief in Electricity Market Rate Case -
01-14-2008
New Yorkers Paying More Than Ever to Keep Their Homes Warm This Winter - NY Times - 01-11-2008
Reduction in Con Ed Hike Recommended - Daily News - 01-10-2008
Cornell Professor Gives Low Marks to NYISO Electricity Markets - 01-08-2008
PULP Urges NYSERDA to Use RGGI Auction Revenue to Support Low Income Energy Efficiency Programs - 01-07-2008
December 2007
PULP’s Comments on RGGI Implementation Regulations - 12-21-2007
NYC Bar Association Energy Committee Recommends New State Energy Planning Board - 12-21-2007
What went wrong in offering Texans a choice? - The Facts -12-19-2007
Consumers and Buyers ask FERC for review of organized electricity spot market rates-12-19-2007
Utilities in N.Y. Told to Make Switch to Time-of-Day Pricing - Gannett News Service - 12-18-2007
History shows why regulation came into being - The Facts 12-18-2007
Group to Ask for Expanded Inquiry of the Power Markets - N.Y. Times - 12-17-2007
States Worry About Federal Heat Aid - Associated Press - 12-11-2007
Top Utilities Regulator Under Fire Again, Defends Himself - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - 12-05-2007
Verizon Is Denied a Rate Request - NY Times- 12-05-2007
NFG Settles Freezing-Death Case - Buffalo News -12-05-2007
Interim Report of the Public Service Commission of Maryland to the Maryland General Assembly Part I: Options for Re-regulation and New Generation-
12-03-2007
Buyer Beware in Seeking Lower Energy Costs - N.Y. Times-12-02-2007
November 2007
Consumer Advocates' Petition for Certiorari in FERC Market Behavior Case, November 2007
NY Energy Competition vs. Regulation Expected to Spur Controversy - Ithaca Journal - 11-28-2007
Blowup led to rules deregulation rolled back - Galveton County Daily News - 11-24-2007
LIPA must Repower its Plants to Help Long Island - Newsday -11-21-2007
Slam this N.Y. Energy Scam - Daily News- 11-20-2007
Bush Veto Hits Heating Bill Aid Program for Poor - Reuters - 11-13-2007
Cold-Hearted - The Post-Standard - 11-11-2007
Veto Threats Cloud New York’s HEAP Program: More than 200,000 households may be affected - PULP Blog - 11-09-2007
LIHEAP -- President's Proposed Funding Level is $630 Million Below Labor-HHS Conference Report Level, CBPP 11-08-2007
N.Y. Needs Power Plants, Energy Groups Warn - Middletown Times Herald-Record - 11-09-2007
Lawmaker: End Costly Electricity `Deregulation' - Ithaca Journal - 11-08-2007
PSC Slaps Con Ed for $18m - NY Post - 11-08-2007
Utilities Ordered to Pay for Failing Service Requirements - Ithaca Journal - 11-07-2007
Price Trends For Industrial Electricity, Deregulated vs Regulated States (Based on EIA data through July 2007), By Marilyn Showalter - 11-06-2007
Mom Sought State Help Before Fatal Fire - Harrisburg Patriot News - 11-06-2007
Competitively Priced Electricity Costs More, Studies Show - NY Times - 11-6-2007
PULP News Winter Extra 2007-2008
New York’s low-income Home Energy Assistance Program for 2007 – 2008 (HEAP) opened for new applicants on November 1, 2007. For details on this year’s program, visit PULP’s website and download the new Winter Extra.
PSC Energized to Audit Con Ed - NY Post - 11-05-2007
Revisiting Deregulation: New Yorkers Pay Far More for Electricity than Customers in Regulated States - Editorial - Syracuse Post Standard, Sunday, 11-04-2007
Nonprofit Tries to Turn off Switch on Grid's 'Grand Plan' - Syracuse Post Standard - 11-01-2007
October 2007
N.Y. Electric $Hock - NY Post - 10-29-2007
PSC Asked to Investigate Grid's "Grand Plan" - PULP Blog -
10-22-2007
Spitzer pushes new candidate to head utility commission
Journal News - 10-19-2007
PSC Study: Michigan's Electric Utilities Should Return To Regulated Market Structure - Electric Net 10-11-2007
Lou Manuta Joins PULP Staff - PULP Blog - 10-10-2007
Energy Deregulation Too Costly, Study Shows New Yorkers Pay More for Electricity Now than under Regulated System, Says Advocacy Group Director - Times Union - 10-05-2007
New York Restructuring: It was about Price - PULP Blog - 10-04-2007
Kessel kept Long Island's lights on - Newsday Editorial-
10-03-2007
New Barriers to Service Erected by National Grid - PULP Blog
10-03-2007
Electricity Price Trends in New York Compared to Trends in Price-Regulated States - Marilyn Showalter, Power in the Public Interest - 10-08-2007
September 2007
U.S. Supreme Court to Decide Electricity Market Rate Refund Case -PULP Blog - 09-25-2007
Marketizer Revisionism: FERC Reinvents Itself as Overseer of Markets, Abandoning Review of Utility Rates - PULP Blog - 09-21-2007
More Doubts About FERC's Market Rate Regime From Ninth Circuit - PULP Blog - 09-20-2007
Con Edison Residential Rate Spike (Again) - PULP Blog - 09-06-2007
August 2007
New York Residential Real Time Pricing Experiments Must be Voluntary - PULP Blog - 08-27-2007
NYISO "Scarcity Pricing" Events - PULP Network - 08-16-2007
Consumer Advocates Seek Rehearing of D.C. Circuit Court Decision Allowing FERC to Avoid Consideration of Statutory Filing Requirements - 08-14-2007
Governor Includes Public Service Commission in Economic Security Cabinet -
08-14-2007
Governor Asked to Pick Pro Consumer PSC Chair - 08-10-2007
NYISO Report on Capacity Market Faulted at FERC - 08-10-2007
July 2007
OTDA Receives Comments at Draft HEAP Plan Hearings -
07-30-2007
Testimony of G.A. Norlander on Draft NYS Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program for 2007-2008 - 07-30-2007
PSC to Review Increase in Outage Compensation for Con Edison Customers - PULP Blog - 07-25-2007
NASUCA Request for Rehearing of FERC Order 697 - Rules for Market Rates - 07-23-2007
Attorneys General of CO, UT, RI, NM, Public Citizen, PULP, and NCLC Seek Rehearing of FERC Order on Market Rates - 07-20-2007
PSC Order on Con Edison tariff for Residential Real Time Pricing Experiment - 07-18-2007
Energy Firms Hit Streets for Sales: as State Touts Competition as Way to Lower Costs, Companies Take Their Pitch to Local Doorsteps - Times Union- 07-13-2007
PULP’s Proposed Prima Facia Statement - 07-10-2007
June 2007
Power Outage Mystery - PULP Network - 06-29-2007
Medical Emergencies - Electricity Required for Insulin Refrigeration - PULP Network - 06-27-2007
“Nonregulated” Sellers of Electricity Become “Market-Regulated” Under New FERC Rule - PULP Network - 06-26-2007
Tonko ready for state energy post: Amsterdam assemblyman due to be named head of NYSERDA - Times Union -
06-15-2007
Justice Department Investigating NY Energy Markets, PULP Network, June 13, 2007
May 2007
Smart Meters, Real Time Pricing, and Demand Response Programs- Barbara Alexander- 05-30-2007
Comments on Con Edison Rider I - (NYSERDA Experimental Real Time Pricing Rates in Submetered Multi-Family Projects) - 05-18-2007
Con Edison Asks PSC for 17% Increase in Residential Electric Rates: Low Income Customers Would Pay Even More - PULP Network - 05-15-2007
Senate Committee Begins Consideration of FERC Nominee, Raising Consumer and Environmental Issues - PULP Network - 05-10-2007
April 2007
DOE Designates "National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor" in New York After Critical Hearing - 04-27-2007
Enron Traders Discuss Destruction of Records and Use of Untaped Phone Lines in Newly Released Tapes -
04-26-2007
New York PSC Proposes Major Increase in Con Edison Natural Gas Efficiency Programs - 04-25-2007
Not so Smart? High Tech Metering may Harm Low Income Electricity Customers - 04-25-2007
Federal "National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor" Designations - 04-25-2007
NASUCA Testimony on Implementation of Section 1221 of EPAct 2005 (Transmission siting) - 04-25-2007
House Power Line Hearing Today - Middletown Times Herald-Record - 04-25-2007
Comparison of New York Residential, Commercial & Industrial Electricity Rates Pricing 1990 - 2006 - 04-19-2007
March 2007
A Failed Experiment - Why electricity deregulation did not work and could not work - Tellus Institue - 03-2007
PSC Proposes Major Increase in Natural Gas Efficiency Programs - 03-29-2007
Is Deregulation of Electricity Illegal? - Baltimore Sun - 03-27-2007
Did Electricity Market Manipulation Cost New York Consumers $157 Million in the Summer of 2006? - 03-2007
Connecticut General Assembly Holds Forum on Electricity Restructuring Problems - 03-2007
Higher electric bills for homes suggested as way to grow jobs - Journal News - 03-10-2007
Complaints Raised About Energy Supplier - Queens Chronicle- 03-08-2007
Natural Gas Exploration Expanding - Ithaca Journal-
03-06-2007
National Grid Bid Prompts Concern: Public Service Commission Staff Object to Utility's Plans to Merge with Keyspan Corp. - Times Union- 03-03-2007
Petition Could Force FERC's Hand on Calif. Cases - Greenwire - 02-28-2007
CARE Petition
Typical Monthly Residential Bill Comparison Chart - PULP - 03-02-2007
February 2007
Electric Choice: A False Choice for Working Texans - ACORN - 02-14-2007
State Needs to Create an Energy Policy - Utica Observer Dispatch - 02-13-2007
APPA Symposium on Restructured Electricity Markets-
02-05-2007
January, 2007
Heating Up Isn't Hard to Do:Global Warming from a Planner’s Window - 01-22-2007
Spitzer Orders Sharp Cuts in Cost of Prisoner Phone Calls - NY Times- 01-09-2007
Spitzer: Inmate Calls Will Cost Families Less: Court of Appeals Will Hear Argument Today about Excessive Charges - Times Union - 01-09-2007
High-Speed Help: Improved Broadband Access Would Aid Students - Editorial - Press & Sun Bulletin - 01-09-2007
December 2006
The Bankrupt-Your-Family Calling Plan -NY Times Editorial, December 22, 2006
Response to PJM ‘Supported’ Study: Analysis of the Impact of Coordinated Electricity Markets on Consumer Electricity Charges, Howard Spinner, Dec. 13, 2006. Putative consumer benefits for customers of New York municipal utilities may be wrongly attributed by RTO-supported study to NYISO markets; and may instead be due to allocations of low cost hydropower from the New York Power Authority to local public utilities. -
12-20-2006
Making the Rent, 2002 to 2005: Changing Rent Burdens & Housing Hardships Among Low-Income New Yorkers, Community Service Society - 12-2006
"After paying their rent, poor households have on
average just $32 per week per family member for
every other expense."
October 2006
RG&E Tightening Collection Policies - PULP Network-
10-02-2006
September 2006
Did Amaranth Attempt to Corner the March 2007 NYMEX at Henry Hub? - McCullough Research - 09-26-2006
NYISO Costs Skyrocket, Benefits Questioned, PULP Network - 09-26-2006
Industrial and Residential Customers Agree: Proposed FERC Rules for Electricity Market Rates are Flawed - PULP Network - 09-21-2006
PSC Orders Audit of Con Edison Emergency Response Systems by Outside Consultant - 09-08-2006
Is a Change Worth the Energy? Consumers See Little Benefit in Swapping Suppliers - Press & Sun-Bulletin - 09-10-2006
Energy Firms Seek to Short-Circuit Price Plan: Proposal by Public Service Commission That Would Make Comparison Shopping Easier Draws Opposition - Times Union - 09-06-2006
August 2006
An Analysis of Spot and Futures Prices for Natural Gas: The Roles of Economic Fundamentals, Market Structure, Speculation, and Manipulation, August 2006
National Legal and Policy Center Urges Regulators to Investigate Possible Manipulation of Natural Gas Futures Markets; Analysis of Natural Gas Futures Volatility and Price Suggests “Dramatic and Damaging” Market Abuse -08-29-2006
2006 Performance Review of Electric Power Markets, Review Conducted for the Virginia State Corporations Commission - 08-27-2006
“The evidence suggests that, at least so far, no discernible benefit can be seen for customers in restructured states once the rate caps have expired. Increasingly the evidence is now beginning to suggest that prices for customers in restructured states may actually be increasing faster than for customers in states that did not restructure.”
Commission Approves 5 Percent Cut in NYSEG Bills - Staten Island Advance - 08-23-2006
Expert Says U.S. Energy Study May Help NYRI's Case - Utica Observer Dispatch - 08-09-2006
July 2006
Power Price Data Still Elusive: PSC Plan to Help Customers Compare Rates Draws Critics - Times Union - 07-27-2006
June 2006
National Grid Gives Discounts to Customers Who Quit Utility - Post Standard - 06-20-2006
A New Federal Assistance Program to Validate Eligibility for Telephone Lifeline and Other Utility Low Income Rate Programs: Medicare Prescription Drug Assistance Benefits - PULP - 06-12-2006
Who's Smiling Now?: A Comparison of Electricity Rates in Restructured and Non-Restructured States, - Kenneth Rose, Ph.D.,- 06-12-2006
May 2006
HEAP Draft Plan Ready for Public Review - Ithaca Journal-05-23-2006
AARP Criticizes Wright on Cell Phone Rights Bill - Watertown Daily News - 05-18-2006
Verizon: NSA Didn't Ask Us for Records - Newsday -
05-16-2006
The Other Mothers - NY Times- 05-14-2006
Groups Battle Cell Phone Industry For Consumer Protection Law - Seniors, Low-Income, Consumers, and Women’s Campus Safety Advocates Press for Nation’s Strongest Cell Phone Law - AARP News Release - 05-02-2006
Consumers Union Memorandum in Support of Wireless Telephone Service Consumer Protection Act - 05-02-2006
NYPIRG Supports Legislative Memorandum A.8539 - 05-02-2006
April 2006
Heat bills rose 15% for season: That's less than half the projected increase - The Buffalo News - 04-13-2006
Governor Eliminates Funding to Provide Legal Services to the Poor, Press Release, Empire Justice Center, 4/12/06
5.3M Loan to Expand Rural Broadband Access - Mid-Hudson Cablevision First Company in State to Qualify for Federal Loan - Times Union - 04-12-2006
PSC Lets Phone Rates Increase: Ex-Monopolies Have Many Rivals Now, It Says - Democrat & Chronicle - 04-12-2006
Regulators, Lawmakers Wrestling Over Phone Service - The Journal News - 04-11-2006
PSC Notice of Public Hearings on NYSEG Rates: Binghamton (May 16), Hornell (May 17), and North Greenbush (May 25). - 04-10-2006
Hogan no hero to consumers of electricity - The Patriot-News - 04-09-2
March 2006
Evidence from Anticipated and Unanticipated Variation in Home Energy Costs, Univ. of Calif. Energy Institute, April 2005
"households do not do a good job of buffering the
unanticipated, yet relatively small, variation arising from weather and
fuel price extremes" - 03-30-2006
PUC Commissioner Acampora Asks “What Bugs You?” - State Bar News - March-April 2006
Assembly Gets Cellphone Billing Complaints - Consumers Call for Industry Regulation to Deal with Confusing Statements, Wireless Contract Red Tape - Times Union, March 14, 2006
The Role of Supply, Demand and Financial Commodity Markets in the Natural Gas Price Spiral, Midwest Attorneys General Natural Gas Working Group (Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin) Prepared by Mark N. Cooper, Ph.D.,
03-2006
Was PJM’s Energy Price Run Up in the Latter Half of 2005 Due to Inappropriate Market Power, an Appropriate Power Market or Both? Howard M. Spinner, Dir. Div. Of Economics & Finance, Va. State Corporations Commission. “[O]bserved price increases in PJM energy markets are not fully explained by higher loads and higher commodity fuel prices. Something else appears to be going on.”
PSC still not providing enough information for energy choices - Editorial - Schenectady Gazette - 03-06-2006
Typical Monthly Residential Electric Bills - July 1994 - Jan. 2006 - PULP -
03-03-2006
Utilities most closely following NY PSC “restructuring” policies now
have highest and most volatile residential electric bills.
February 2006
Suffolk Helps Cool off Heating Bills - Newsday - 02-23-2006
January 2006
State Supplemental Appropriation for Home Energy Assistance
Legislature Enacting $100 Million State HEAP Appropriation:
Senate-Assembly Bill S6462-A / A 9562-A
Senate-Assembly Bill S6464 / A9564
Paying for Heat - Many Seniors and Low-income New Yorkers Are Facing High Utility Bills and Need Help - Times Union Editorial - 01-18-2006
Despite Warm Spell, Heating Bills Rise - High Costs Put Strain on Many - Poughkeepsie Journal - 01-18-2006
State Should Raise Ante for HEAP - The Daily Gazette - 01-14-2006
Assembly Bill - A09281 - Appropriation to provide additional funds to the low-income home energy assistance program - 01-11-2006
Bill Status
Deal Likely for Heat Funding - Legislature Headed Toward Approving More Aid to Seniors, Low- To-moderate-income Homes- Times Union -
01-11-2006
Legislature Moves Toward Approving Emergency Heating Aid - Associated Press - 01-10-2006
Assembly Seeks $200 Million For Emergency HEAP - North Country Gazette - 1-10-2006
Assembly to pass $200 million emergency appropriation measure to augment HEAP - NY Assembly Press Release - 01-10-2006
AARP SURVEY - Many State Residents Need Help with Heat Bills - Buffalo News- 01-10-2006
AARP Survey Finds New Yorkers Struggling with High Heating Costs - Press Release - 01-09-2006
Survey Results
Help with heating costs is in demand - The Sara
2005 Articles and Documents
NASUCA Comments on Proposed Repeal of Market Behavior Rules -
12-22-2005
Administration Preventing States from Adjusting Food Stamp Benefits to Reflect Impact Of Higher Home Heating Costs on Food Budgets - Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - 12-14-2005
New Bush Administration Decision Makes States Base Food Stamp Benefit Levels for this Winter on Last Year’s Heating Costs- Increased Hardship Likely to Result - CBPP - 12-14-2005
Lessons From A Fire - Letter to the Editor - NY Times Editorial -
12-12-2005
Chart of Utility Assistance Programs - 12-7-2005
This PULP chart compares November 2005 residential gas rates of several New York utilities. Before November and December 2005, Central Hudson's residential gas rates were generally comparable to those of other utilities (O&R, NYSEG, RG&E, National Grid). Central Hudson gas rates spiked severely in November 2005, more than the rates of other utilities. This rate spike occurred just when Central Hudson discontinued its fixed rate for about 10,000 customers (October 31 2005) because of a PSC policy issued in August 2004 discouraging stable default service rates. In a July 22, 2005 PSC Order the Commission granted the petition of competitive sellers of natural gas ("ESCOs") to force termination of Central Hudson's fixed gas rate option, stating "a fixed price supply option is a service that could and should be developed and offered by the competitive marketplace."
Middle Class Gets in Line for Help With Rising Heating Bills-NY Times-
11-27-2005
Westchester Program Offers Help to Ease Heating Expenses- The Journal News - 11-18-2005
Relief from High Home Heating Costs Available for Low-Income New Yorkers; Enrollment Period for NY Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) Begins Today; AARP Encourages Eligible New Yorkers to Apply - AARP Press Release, 11/1/2005
State Seeks More Money for Energy-Bill Subsidies - Ithaca Journal -
10-19-2005
Reaching For Blanket, Not Thermostat - NY Times - 10-17-2005
Even in Summer, Americans Dread Winter Heating Bills - NY Times - 8-26- 2005
Natural Gas Bills Could Rise by 35 Percent in New York - Binghamton Press -
8-25-2005
Concerns Over Falling Phone Usage - Cellular News - 8-15-2005
Coalition Aims to Promote Competition in D.C. and States, "Educate" Policymakers on Benefits - Platts - 8-11-2005
Competition Has Not Lowered U.S. Industrial Electricity Prices, Electricity Journal, March 2005.
"Consumer welfare has not been improved by restructuring in the electricity industry, and considerable thought should be given to whether it is wise to extend restructuring to other states before the full range of issues has been resolved and reduced prices or reduced rate of price increase have been demonstrated."
Phone Fees Called Into Question - Washington Post - 7-26-2005
Guest Viewpoint: PSC's Embrace of 'PowerSwitch' Won't Satisfy All Utility Customers - Press & Sun Bulletin - 7-26-2005
PULP Comments on O&R Retail Access Plan- 4-8-2005
Verizon Offers Cheaper Internet Calling - Associated Press - 4-06-2005
FCC Attempts to Pre-Empt States from Protecting Wireless Phone Consumers
"Cranky Consumer: A Test of the Results Of Electricity Deregulation” - Wall Street Journal - 3-01-2005
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