BP to Sell Retail Power

摘要

BP is expanding into retail power markets in the US,following Total and Royal Dutch Shell into the highly regulated business of selling power rather than simply generating it.BP filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission requesting permission for subsidiary BP Energy Retail to market power directly to consumers in five US states: Illinois,Ohio,Texas,California and Pennsylvania."BP Energy Retail is a retail energy marketing company that intends to sell electricity products directly to commercial and industrial customers and residential customers,"the filing states.