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June 19, 2015
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has further delayed the deadline for the filing of a Staff report on certain potential retail market enhancements, with the report now due on August 3
June 17, 2015
New York PSC Staff will convene a collaborative meeting with interested parties on July 9, "to investigate and evaluate utility energy bills, including how to increase their informational value to customers, identify customer preferences, and promote customer engagement regarding their energy use."
June 17, 2015
The Peoples Natural Gas distribution companies in Pennsylvania have filed a series of tariff changes which are said to be aimed at improving the retail market and harmonizing processes among the companies.
June 16, 2015
A draft California PUC resolution would deny the application of San Diego Gas and Electric to provide line item billing service for non-tariffed products or services provided by non-utility providers, including utility affiliates
June 12, 2015
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority will begin conducting outreach events on electricity issues including electric choice, PURA staff reported at a recent supplier workgroup meeting
June 12, 2015
The Connecticut PURA has scheduled a hearing regarding Docket 14-07-19RE01, concerning changes to customer bills required by statute, to further consider the issue of presenting a supplier's rate for the next month on the customer's bill.
June 1, 2015
Duquesne Light has petitioned the Pennsylvania PUC for a waiver of several requirements related to retail electric supplier billing, including introduction of the joint supplier-utility bill, due to ongoing implementation of its new backoffice and customer billing system
May 29, 2015
New York PSC Staff will hold a collaborative on Thursday, June 25, 2015 to continue discussions on the following issues concerning the provision of services by energy services companies: define the standards to be used to determine value added products and services that must be provided to…
May 29, 2015
A revised draft Connecticut PURA decision would find that "incidental" residential accounts -- those meters associated with non-residential customers but assigned a residential rate class -- are not subject to new statutory billing information requirements, removing the concern that such incidental…
May 29, 2015
In a rehearing order, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has clarified several aspects of the purchase of receivables program that was ordered to be implemented at AEP Ohio
May 28, 2015
The NRG Energy retail suppliers reported that the "shockingly low" success rate seen by retail electric suppliers using PECO's remote account number look-up tool is due to the poor data quality of PECO's customer list, and PECO's insistence on a 100% character-for-character match.
May 28, 2015
The Maryland PSC has approved updated purchase of receivables discount rates at Baltimore Gas & Electric
May 27, 2015
NYSEG and Rochester Gas & Electric have, as part of a new distribution rate case, proposed instituting a deposit for ESCOs to perform EDI testing.
May 12, 2015
Those who had eagerly anticipated a May 11 filing of an Ohio retail market report will have to wait potentially another week, as a modest extension has been granted for the filing of the report.
May 12, 2015
The New York PSC Staff will convene a series of collaborative meetings to investigate and evaluate operational issues required for consolidated Energy Service Companies (ESCO) billing (CEB), "including how CEB can be constructed to be consistent with Commission rules and regulations including those…
May 4, 2015
The Massachusetts DPU allowed new purchase of receivables discount rates at three utilities to take effect May 1, 2015, subject to further review and reconciliation similar to other annual reconciliation filings (e.g. basic service reconciliation factors).
May 4, 2015
Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company d/b/a Unitil has filed at the Massachusetts DPU to implement a purchase of receivables program with a 5% discount rate for residential customers.
April 29, 2015
A Connecticut PURA draft order appears to prohibit retail suppliers from serving residential meters associated with non-residential customers (incidental residential accounts) with any product except a fixed rate, or standard variable-monthly rate, as defined in a prior PURA order concerning…
April 28, 2015
The Maryland PSC has approved new purchase of receivables discount rates at Pepco, Delmarva, and Potomac Edison, effective June 1, 2015.
April 24, 2015
The Pennsylvania PUC issued a tentative order to develop a "joint" natural gas distribution company–natural gas supplier bill which would require that a supplier's logo be included on a utility consolidated bill, but would not permit the recovery of the cost of a supplier's value-added service on…
April 13, 2015
Columbia Gas of Ohio has filed tariffs to permit retail suppliers to utilize bill ready utility consolidated billing, in addition to the current rate ready billing.
April 7, 2015
Complaints about electricity shopping have fallen by 90% versus the winter of 2013-14, the FirstEnergy Pennsylvania utilities told the PUC.
April 3, 2015
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, in adopting a Duke Energy Ohio electric security plan for the three-year period beginning June 2015, approved a continuation of Duke Energy Ohio's electric purchase of receivables program, but ruled that non-commodity costs shall be excluded from both POR and…
March 24, 2015
Baltimore Gas & Electric has filed proposed updates to the electric and natural gas purchase of receivables discount rates, to be effective June 1, 2015.
March 23, 2015
Having recently re-opened a decision concerning new electric billing regulations, the Connecticut PURA has now sought specific stakeholder comment on several issues.
