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February 7, 2022
The Maryland PSC dismissed a complaint filed by the Office of People’s Counsel (OPC) against Washington Gas Light Company ('Washington Gas') and WGL Energy Services, Inc. ('WGL Energy') over, what has been shown to be, a utility message appearing on all utility consolidated bills, though OPC's…
January 31, 2022
Investigation To Consider Whether Retail Supplier Offers Are Overpriced Or Harmful
Staff of the Connecticut PURA have proposed a schedule for PURA's review of retail electric supplier offers under Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-245(a), to be followed by the periodic review of the placement of all utility hardship customers on default service
January 25, 2022
The General Counsel of the New York PSC issued letters to 9 ESCOs informing such ESCOs that the Department of Public Service will exercise enforcement discretion, limited to 120 days and subject to other conditions, concerning the end of the current waiver that had allowed the nine ESCOs to provide…
January 24, 2022
Investigation To Consider Whether Retail Supplier Offers Are Overpriced Or Harmful
The Connecticut PURA has expanded a periodic review of the placement of all utility hardship customers on default service to include a review of retail electric supplier offers under Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-245(a)
January 21, 2022
A Pennsylvania ALJ in an initial decision (recommended decision) would approve a settlement between Verde Energy USA, Inc. and the Pennsylvania PUC's Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement ('I&E'), under which Verde would pay $1 million and extend a moratorium on in-person marketing and…
January 17, 2022
A Maryland public utility law judge (PULJ) has issued a proposed order that would conclude that, under a specific marketing mechanism at issue in the proceeding, Direct Energy Services, LLC, "unlawfully enrolled customers by participation in telephone solicitations in violation of State consumer…
January 14, 2022
A Texas customer filed comments with the Texas PUC concerned about a "ploy" by an unnamed retail electric provider for its rates to appear more favorable on the Power to Choose website, but the cited situation is already addressed by PUC rules, and the customer may have encountered a potential…
January 12, 2022
A previously reported proposed order from a Maryland utility law judge that had proposed to approve, with certain modifications, a $150,000 settlement agreement among Statewise Energy Maryland LLC ('SWE' or 'Statewise'), Staff of the Maryland Public Service Commission ('Staff') and the Maryland…
January 11, 2022
Ector County Energy Center LLC (QECTOR) would pay $51,206 under a settlement with Staff (Commission Staff) of the Public Utility Commission of Texas (Commission) to resolve QECTOR's alleged violation of Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) Nodal Protocols § 6.4.4.1(1)(a), concerning the…
January 10, 2022
NRG Texas Power LLC (NRG) would pay $100,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve alleged violations of ERCOT Nodal Protocols §§ 6.4.6, related to resource status; 6.5.5.2(7) related to operational data requirements; 6.5.7.5(2), related to Ancillary…
December 30, 2021
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas ("Staff") and Calpine Power Management LLC ("QCALP") (together, "Parties") have entered into a Settlement Agreement to resolve and conclude Commission Staff's investigation of QCALP for alleged violations of the Public Utility Regulatory Act § 39.151(j…
December 27, 2021
A Pennsylvania PUC ALJ would, in an initial decision, deny a complaint brought by a group of retail suppliers (NGSs) against National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation (NFGD) in which the suppliers sought to void an NFGD tariff adopted by the Pennsylvania PUC that includes a $5,000,000 per incident…
December 27, 2021
Mega Energy of New England, LLC ('Company') and the Delegated Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities have entered into a settlement agreement under which Mega Energy would return its residential customers in Massachusetts to default service, and pay $100,000.
December 20, 2021
The Montgomery County Circuit Court in Maryland issued an opinion which largely affirmed a Maryland PSC decision concerning an investigation into SmartEnergy Holdings, LLC d/b/a SmartEnergy ('SmartEnergy' or the 'Company') that principally centered on application of the Maryland Telephone…
December 17, 2021
The Staff (Commission Staff) of the Public Utility Commission of Texas (Commission) filed a petition to revoke the electricity broker registration of R.E.S. Nation, LLC (RES)
December 10, 2021
An individual named Michael Zimmerman filed public comments, solely on Zimmerman's own behalf as an electric customer in Pennsylvania, with the Pennsylvania PUC alleging that an apparent agent for Discount Power, Inc. (DPI) engaged in deceptive behavior, as Zimmerman asked that a pending settlement…
December 10, 2021
A Maryland PSC Public Utility Law Judge (PULJ) would modify a proposed $150,000 settlement agreement among Statewise Energy Maryland LLC ('SWE' or 'Statewise'), Staff of the Maryland Public Service Commission ('Staff') and the Maryland Office of People’s Counsel ('OPC,' together with Statewise and…
December 9, 2021
PPL Electric Utilities Corporation ("PPL Electric" or "the Company") filed comments at the Pennsylvania PUC recommending that the PUC modify two separate settlements between retail suppliers (EGS) and the PUC's Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement (I&E) to add terms to the settlements requiring…
December 8, 2021
The executive director of the Public Utility Commission of Texas has filed separate Notices of Violations (NOV) against eight power generation companies for their alleged failure to file winter weather readiness reports by the December 1, 2021 deadline
December 7, 2021
The Secretary of the New York PSC said in a letter to SunSea Energy, LLC that the deadline for SunSea to return its New York mass market customers to default service will be extended if SunSea timely files a rehearing request of the PSC's order which had directed the return of the ESCO's mass market…
November 25, 2021
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (Authority or PURA) issued a Notice of Violation and Assessment of Civil Penalty (NOV) against Discount Power, Inc. (Discount) which would: impose a fine on Discount in the amount of two million dollars ($2,000,000); would order Discount to pay…
November 24, 2021
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (Authority or PURA) issued a final order in which PURA, "finds that Liberty Power Holdings, LLC (Liberty or Company) failed to comply with Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 16-245(c), 16-245s, 16-245o, and the marketing standards developed by the Authority in…
November 24, 2021
The Maryland Office of People’s Counsel filed a complaint against Washington Gas Light Co. ("Washington Gas" or "WGL") and WGL Energy Services, Inc. ("WGL Energy") concerning what, as alleged by OPC, the utility termed a "subscriber-consolidated bill" issued by WGL Energy and messages on the bill
November 19, 2021
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) released a third-party audit report finding that no costs for stadium naming rights have been charged to customers of FirstEnergy’s three Ohio electric distribution utilities.
November 19, 2021
Reason For Two Separate ESCO Show Cause Orders Revealed
SunSea Energy issued the following statement concerning a recent order from the New York PSC which denied the application submitted by SunSea Energy LLC seeking eligibility to serve mass-market customers as an ESCO in the State of New York:
