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April 4, 2014
The Pennsylvania PUC, while requiring the disclosure of certain variable electric rate history by suppliers for residential and small business customers, has not yet determined how exactly such rate history shall be compiled and presented.
April 3, 2014
The New York PSC said that utilities had not justified their requested extension of certain deadlines for EDI, system, and other changes required by the PSC's recent retail market order.
April 3, 2014
A settlement among Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, and the 9/12 Association would establish the fees applicable for customers who opt-out of advanced metering service.
April 2, 2014
The New York PSC announced that it will hold a technical conference on May 15, 2014 to examine the issue of energy prices this winter.
April 2, 2014
Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy, Attorney General George Jepsen, Consumer Counsel Elin Swanson Katz and State Senate President Pro Tempore Donald Williams, Jr. are proposing legislation, the Electric Supplier Consumers' Bill of Rights, that would, among other things, require affirmative consent…
March 31, 2014
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has issued a stay of the PUC's order granting electric Customer Assistance Program (CAP) customers at PECO the eligibility to shop for a competitive electric supplier, which means that such customers shall not be able to choose a supplier pending the Court's…
March 28, 2014
The "extreme" pricing which has been the impetus for several proposed market changes in Pennsylvania result from, "one or two suppliers," NRG Retail Northeast said in comments to the Pennsylvania PUC.
March 27, 2014
With the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio declining to order the electric utilities to implement POR (see related story today), the Commission's final retail market order contains few substantive reforms to the market.
March 26, 2014
The Pennsylvania PUC has directed that all retail electric suppliers shall respond to a survey in which suppliers shall provide their customer count broken out by fixed rate customers and variable rate customers.
March 25, 2014
Pennsylvania retail electric suppliers should be required to disclose to customers the highest electric rate they have charged in the past 60 months, the Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate said in comments to the PUC.
March 24, 2014
During last week's Pennsylvania House hearing regarding soaring competitive electric rates, Rep. Peter Daley, Democratic Chair of the Consumer Affairs committee, said that competitive generators declined an invitation to appear before the committee.
March 24, 2014
Pricing pressures facing retail energy suppliers "will drive consolidation" and, "could well improve the market," Direct Energy said in comments to the Connecticut PURA.
March 21, 2014
The free market for electricity in Pennsylvania "hasn't worked" in its current form, Pennsylvania State Rep. Robert Godshall, Chair of the Consumer Affairs committee, said during a hearing yesterday on variable prices.
March 20, 2014
The Pennsylvania PUC intends to adopt a standard Electric Generation Supplier "Contract Summary" which all EGSs will be required to use for residential and small business customers, and the PUC also intends to require EGSs to provide certain customers with advance notice of variable rates.
March 19, 2014
The Michigan PSC has approved certain changes to the choice program tariffs at DTE Gas (MichCon).
March 19, 2014
The Michigan PSC directed four Michigan natural gas utilities to participate in a collaborative proceeding addressing the creation of a gas choice price comparison website, and invited alternative gas suppliers, other regulated natural gas utilities and others to participate.
March 19, 2014
The Pennsylvania PUC, "intends to promulgate a rulemaking which will amend existing Regulations at 52 Pa. Code, Chapter 57 to direct EDCs to accelerate switching time frames through off-cycle meter reads in a fashion that will permit Pennsylvania retail electric customers to switch suppliers within…
March 17, 2014
Taken together, the 25 retail electric market proposals on which the Connecticut PURA sought comment, "could stifle and ultimately collapse the retail electric supply market in Connecticut," the Retail Energy Supply Association said in a request to postpone a fact finding session announced by PURA.
March 14, 2014
The Georgia PSC has established a working group on proposed interruptible tariff revisions at Atlanta Gas Light.
March 14, 2014
To the extent the Georgia PSC does not make Atlanta Gas Light responsible for the collection of curtailment penalties, the Georgia PSC should authorize natural gas poolers on the Atlanta Gas Light system to place a "switch hold" on certain accounts, Infinite Energy said in comments to the PSC.
March 13, 2014
Direct Energy said that, effective April 1, the company will add a price protection feature to its current residential electric variable rates in each Pennsylvania utility service area in which the company serves.
March 13, 2014
Chicago announced new pricing under its opt-out electric aggregation contract with Integrys Energy Services.
March 13, 2014
Results from a new poll conducted by Public Opinion Strategies indicate that 58 percent of likely Michigan voters support legislation to eliminate the 10% electric choice cap, while only 20% oppose it.
March 12, 2014
Runaway wholesale electric prices have doomed another attempt to expand electric choice, this time in Pennsylvania -- a state which increasingly looks more and more like New York, Connecticut, and dare we say it, Maryland, thanks to unchecked and uncompetitive wholesale pricing.
March 12, 2014
The Connecticut PURA has invited stakeholders to submit, "written comments on the following topics or proposed rules and requirements," for electric suppliers.
