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November 2, 2021
Several Ohio electric utilities (EDUs) have applied for rule waivers at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to, temporarily, continue to bill their own, or an affiliate's, non-jurisdictional services on utility bills, as a new rule takes effect, which prohibits such billing, unless the utility…
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October 20, 2021
UNIONDALE, N.Y. – October 20, 2021 – EC Infosystems, a leader in Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Billing/Customer Information Solutions (CIS) for companies in the deregulated energy industry , announced their annual user conference has been moved to February 2-4, 2022 and will remain at The…
October 6, 2021
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has provided an effective date for the adoption of previously reported new rules which do not allow electric utilities to discriminate in the provision of billing for non-commodity and similar services
September 24, 2021
Staff of the Maryland PSC have filed a request to revise the schedule for implementation of supplier consolidated billing, and to employ a consultant to assist with implementation
September 24, 2021
The City of Boston, which operates an opt-out municipal aggregation for electricity, has renewed its request for reconsideration at the Massachusetts DPU in which the City is seeking an order from the DPU to require Nstar to share a list of currently shopping customers with the City
September 20, 2021
On Friday, September 17th, AEP Texas de-activated the Catastrophic Estimation Process (CEP) for the counties listed below as AEP Texas completed power restoration from Hurricane Nicholas, the TDU said in a market notice
September 15, 2021
"Due to updated outage restoration timelines," AEP Texas said in a market notice, sent at approximately 7:51 a.m. on September 15, that it has decided to implement the Catastrophic Estimation Process (CEP) for the counties listed below.
August 27, 2021
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu has signed HB 315 which, among other things, requires utilities to offer purchase of receivables (POR) to municipal aggregations
August 26, 2021
The Pennsylvania PUC has proposed in a tentative order to continue, for another three years, a waiver which provides for a shortened five-day waiting period related to natural gas switches, as the issue continues to be addressed in a pending rulemaking
August 26, 2021
The Pennsylvania PUC has reversed an initial decision from an ALJ and has found that the use of "on-bill billing" by the FirstEnergy Pennsylvania electric utilities for their own non-commodity goods and services, while not offering the same on-bill billing service for the non-commodity goods and…
August 20, 2021
During a Department of Public Service stakeholder meeting, a representative of several New York utilities balked at purchasing the receivables of ESCOs for non-supply, energy-related value-added products and services (ERVAS), and said that the issue of POR for ERVAS should be considered in Track II…
August 12, 2021
The Connecticut PURA has initiated a proceeding to assign costs of various EDC billing system upgrades to retail suppliers and develop a mechanism to recover such costs from suppliers (Docket 14-07-19RE07)
August 10, 2021
National Grid and Nstar have both filed proposals with the Massachusetts DPU on how to address reconciliation of the Standard Complete Billing Percentages (SCBPs) -- the term of purchase of receivables (POR) discounts -- given the DPU's prior order to maintain the current SCBPs
July 20, 2021
The District of Columbia PSC has approved new purchase of receivables discount rates at Pepco, to be effective July 1, 2021
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July 13, 2021
UNIONDALE, N.Y. – July 13, 2021 – EC Infosystems, a leader in Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Billing/Customer Information Solutions (CIS) for companies in the deregulated energy industry , has announced a partnership with IronHorse Power Services, LLC for both EDI and Billing/CIS.
June 22, 2021
AARP Texas petitioned the Texas PUC for an emergency rule to lower the initial payment amount required under a deferred payment plan with a retail electric provider, and to extend the time over which the customer must pay the deferred balance
June 21, 2021
The Pennsylvania PUC issued a secretarial letter in which the PUC said that it will not propose moving forward with electricity supplier consolidated billing (SCB) at this time, and through which the PUC closed its current SCB investigation without further action
June 15, 2021
Several Texas retail electric providers have requested to participate in the matching process to receive a list of their low-income customers for the next fiscal year (fiscal year beginning on September 1, 2021.)
June 10, 2021
The Maryland PSC recently approved new purchase of receivables (POR) discount rates at the four investor-owned utilities. The effective date varies by utility.
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June 7, 2021
UNIONDALE, N.Y. – June 07, 2021 – EC Infosystems, a leader in Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Billing/Customer Information Solutions (CIS) for companies in the deregulated energy industry , has announced their partnership with new retail energy start-up, EcoPlus Power, LLC, for both EDI and…
May 12, 2021
Pepco in the District of Columbia has filed a revision to its proposed new purchase of receivables (POR) discount rates, such that it now proposes to maintain the residential POR discount at 0%, rather than increasing it to 1.2443% as previously reported
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May 11, 2021
UNIONDALE, N.Y. – May 11, 2021 – EC Infosystems, a leader in Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Billing/Customer Information Solutions (CIS) for companies in the deregulated energy industry , has announced the successful implementation of renewable energy leader Community Energy’s billing and EDI…
May 10, 2021
The District of Columbia PSC approved new purchase of receivables (POR) discount rates at Washington Gas Light, with the new rates effective immediately
May 10, 2021
Pepco in the District of Columbia has filed updated purchase of receivables discount rates, proposed to be effective July 1, 2021
May 3, 2021
Normal Annual Revisions Would Have Resulted In Negative POR Discount Rates
The Massachusetts DPU, at both Eversource (Nstar, East & West) and National Grid has ordered that the currently effective purchase of receivables discount rates (standard complete billing percentages) shall remain in effect, subject to investigation and reconciliation, unless the Department orders…
