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CEMA
Last week, Gov. Malloy reluctantly signed a bipartisan $41 billion budget into law, 123 days after it was supposed to be adopted. The budget avoided major sales tax and gasoline tax increases and relied heavily on cuts to energy conservation programs and other state services.
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CEMA
CEMA Board Chair Peter Russell of Santa Energy, along with Jennifer Tracey-Carlo and Ralph Carlo of Tracey Energy and Ed Ryan of Ryan Oil met with the Community Action Agency of New Haven's (CAANH) Board of Directors about their failure to pay fuel vendors from last heating season.
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CEMA
If you're a "Game of Thrones" fan, you'll know the theme "Winter is Coming" is something to be dreaded. If you sell heating fuel, however, winter is your friend! October has been dreadful this year, but we're starting to pick up good degree days in November, so far.
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CEMA
As of Nov. 1, the state of Connecticut prohibits the sale of prepay/prebuy contracts to residential customers until April 1. Fixed price contracts and other guaranteed price contracts where a customers does not pay for the fuel in advance of delivery is permitted during the moratorium. This law change occurred after Ace Oil closed their doors in 2013.
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CEMA
CEMA's annual holiday party will be on Tuesday, Dec. 12 this year. Sticking with our theme of using museum venues for our parties, this year we found a very unique museum — the New England Carousel Museum, located in the center of the state in Bristol, Connecticut.
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CEMA
A number of calls have come in to CEMA about whether members are subject to electronic log devices (ELDs). We suspect members are being contacted by vendors trying to sell them such devices. Basically, if you don't use in-cab logbooks now, you won't need the electronic versions. Here's an article reproduced from our newsletter from June 8.
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PMAA via CEMA
The EPA ultralow sulfur diesel standard (ULSD) concluded an 8-year phase-in period in September 2014. The final stage in the program means that only 15-ppm dyed non-road diesel fuel and 15-ppm clear highway diesel fuel may be used. Some higher sulfur distillates remain for locomotive and marine engines as well as heating oil.
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Kidde via CEMA
Kidde is recalling 134 fire extinguisher models it produced. These are in widespread use in homes, offices and in trucks. If your extinguisher is affected, they will send you a replacement extinguisher. You won't have to produce a receipt — just give them certain information from your extinguisher, and keep your existing one until you receive your replacement, at which time you can send them your old unit.
CEMA
The gas utility tariffs for November 2017 are in. You can compare these rates to your own prices. The utility tariffs published for November below are expressed in heating oil gallon equivalents, and so present gas rates on a British thermal unit (Btu) to Btu equivalent basis with heating oil. These are the system expansion tariffs, which apply to all residential conversions from heating oil to utility gas.
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CEMA
The state agency that regulates utilties, PURA (Public Utility Regulatory Authority) issued a ruling (Docket No. 13-06-02RE04) recently allowing Yankee Gas (a division of Eversource) to collect a $500 deposit from homeowners who apply to convert to gas. This is a major development that will probably make conversions less likely going forward.
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CEMA
We will return to the Newport Marriott next year for our Southern New England Energy Conference, Sept. 24-25. We were at the Marriott two years ago in 2015, and had our largest attendance to date when it was there. This conference is co-sponsored by CEMA, the Massachusetts Energy Marketers Association, and the Oilheat Institute of Rhode Island. NORA will also be joining our conference with their own track of sessions. Stay tuned for details.
CEMA
With Veterans Day just around the corner on Nov. 11, companies in our industry should consider hiring veterans. Why hire vets? A Forbes article reported: "Veterans, according to business leaders interviewed for the report, offer versatility: They're accustomed to uniform policies and structure, but can adapt to dynamic workplace situations."
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Utility Dive
In recent weeks, the gas scheduling practices of Northeast utilities have come under increasing scrutiny. On Oct. 11, the Environmental Defense Fund published a working paper arguing that the gas utility subsidiaries of Eversource and Avangrid artificially constrained pipeline capacity in Connecticut and Massachusetts for years — costing consumers an estimated $3.6 billion in higher power prices from 2013 to 2016.
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EDF
New England natural gas and electricity prices have undergone dramatic spikes in recent years, spurring talk about the need for a costly new pipeline to meet the region's needs as demand for gas seemed ready to overtake suppliers' available capacity to deliver it.
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Hartford Courant
Customers of Connecticut's two dominant utilities will pay higher electricity prices next year, state regulators announced. For customers of Eversource, the increase tied to higher costs of generating electricity could be the first of two: The utility also is seeking higher rates to pay for improved storm protection.
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Foley Carrier Services
When a drug test result comes back positive, it's usually pretty cut and dry…it's a positive drug test. Alcohol tests are different due to the varying levels of alcohol that may be in one's system. The FMCSA considers an alcohol test to be positive if a driver has an alcohol concentration of 0.04 or greater.
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The Connecticut Mirror
With no competitive mayoral races in Connecticut's largest cities, the focus in municipal elections on Nov. 7 turned to the suburbs, where jubilant Democrats made gains on Republican turf across the state in races for local councils and chief elected officers, fueled by an ambitious ground game.
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CT News Junkie
Two women who some believe would "clear the field" when it comes to the 2018 gubernatorial race have continued their silence about their future plans. Both Democratic Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman and House Republican Leader Themis Klarides have said they would offer some insight into their plans after the state has a budget.
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CT News Junkie
While local officials initially celebrated passage of the two-year bipartisan budget, they may be not be as happy after learning it stranded millions of dollars and made towns responsible for about $20 million in elderly tax relief. The recently signed state budget, according to a memo from the Office of Policy and Management, did not fund the elderly circuit breaker program.
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ENTECH Advanced Energy Training
Where do the pros look for the next generation of HVACR technicians? Right here at Entech. Our state-of-the-art facility offers training with the very latest technologies and equipment. Because Entech is affiliated with the Connecticut Energy Marketers Association, we have direct relationships with the companies you'll want to work for.
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