November 4, 2025
Mandates Retail Suppliers Use TOU Rates If Serving Certain Customers
Both Illinois houses recently passed and enrolled SB 25 which, among other things, requires the Illinois Power Agency to include in its procurement plan, "the procurement of energy, capacity, environmental attributes, resource adequacy attributes, or some combination thereof intended to serve all…
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October 31, 2025
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC filed at the Texas PUC to resume a refund credit to customers, issued through retail electric providers, related to a prior rate case
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October 31, 2025
The Staff of the Texas PUC have filed a draft proposal for adoption that would eliminate the small-fish-swim-free rule in ERCOT
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October 31, 2025
Staff of the Maryland PSC apparently recently issued a data request to retail energy suppliers seeking suppliers' views on a "path forward" in the fostering of a, "stable, competitive, and sustainable residential retail energy market in Maryland."
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October 30, 2025
In a statement of position in Oncor's rate case at the Texas PUC, the Retail Electric Provider (REP) Coalition said that the Inadvertent Gain Discretionary Service Charge at Oncor should be discontinued in its entirety, with the underlying costs recovered through base rates.
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October 30, 2025
Broad Rule Language Would Empower PUC Staff To Require New Reports In Future To Analyze Changing Retail Market Dynamics Accelerated Due Date For Compliance Reports
Staff of the Texas PUC have filed a draft proposal for publication that would revise the current retail market performance measure reporting requirements, applicable to retail electric providers and other market entities, to implement recent changes in law and to streamline the report
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October 28, 2025
Staff of the Texas PUC issued further questions for stakeholder comment in the PUC's review of transmission cost recovery allocation and policies
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October 17, 2025
AEP Ohio has "adequately justified" a proposed increase in the cost for a new retail electric supplier to register with AEP Ohio, and an increase in the cost for existing suppliers to renew their registrations, Staff of the PUC of Ohio said in a Staff Report on AEP Ohio's current rate case (Ohio…
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October 15, 2025
In a change to an earlier proposed annual update, Staff of the Maryland PSC have revised the proposed price cap for green retail electricity plans, though the proposed change is de minimis
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October 3, 2025
In a recommended decision in a Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania rate case, two Pennsylvania ALJs have recommended that Columbia Gas be required to send letters to low-income customers who are served by a competitive retail supplier at a price which exceeds the default service rate
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September 30, 2025
Proposes New Credit Provisions For Retail Suppliers Updates POR Discount Rates Changes To Measuring Customer's Default Service Cutoff, Meant To Assign Costs Away From Small SOS Customers
In a new delivery rate case filed with the Pennsylvania PUC today, PPL Electric Utilities has proposed to recover, from retail electric suppliers (EGSs), "on a per-transaction basis," PPL Electric's costs for EDI transactions
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September 19, 2025
Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council and NextEra Energy Services Ohio (the "Joint Applicants") sought rehearing of the PUC of Ohio's recent order adopting new rules setting forth retail supplier notice requirements for the ending of an "introductory" fixed rate, as NOPEC and NextEra argued that the…
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September 16, 2025
The Office of the People's Counsel for the District of Columbia proposed, among other things, a cap on retail supplier rates, as OPC offered comments in a District of Columbia PSC proceeding on the future of the POR programs
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September 12, 2025
Staff of the Texas PUC have filed a draft proposal for publication to implement PURA §39.169 (part of SB 6), relating to net metering arrangements involving a large load co-located with an existing generation resource
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September 11, 2025
Settlement Addresses Various Operational Issues Raised By Retail Suppliers
The Pennsylvania PUC approved without modification a natural gas rate case settlement at UGI Utilities, Inc. – Gas Division ("UGI Gas" or the "Company") which addresses various retail market issues
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September 3, 2025
A proposed update to natural gas utility customer service rules in Ohio would provide that utilities may seek to recover from retail suppliers incremental costs associated with correcting an improper initiation of a switch
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September 2, 2025
In comments on a proposed Texas PUC rule concerning firming requirements for generation, Octopus Energy urged the PUC to allow demand response and DERs to serve as eligible resources to meet firming obligations
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August 26, 2025
The PUC of Ohio will hold a workshop on September 26, 2025 concerning recent statutory changes relating to the electric Percentage of Income Payment Plan (PIPP) program
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August 21, 2025
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has adopted final rules to implement two new laws addressing retail supplier notice requirements for the ending of an "introductory" fixed rate -- R.C. 4928.102 (electric) and 4929.221 (gas)
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August 18, 2025
AEP Texas has filed to implement a new Transition Charge-3 refund rider, to be provided to REPs, only for those customers in the former AEP Texas Central service area
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August 15, 2025
State court precedent provides that the state constitutional responsibility of Pennsylvania state agencies to take into consideration clean air and other environmental concerns cannot be used to supersede specific statutory provisions, the Pennsylvania PUC concluded in finding that opt-out municipal…
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August 14, 2025
The Pennsylvania PUC denied a petition from the Boroughs of Camp Hill, Carlisle, Hatboro, Lansdowne, Media, Narberth, State College, and Swarthmore which had asked the PUC to hold, via a declaratory judgment, that the opt-out nature of their proposed municipal aggregation (community choice…
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August 12, 2025
As a result of recent legislation, the Maine PUC ordered Central Maine Power Company (CMP) and Versant Power (Versant) to share certain competitive electricity provider (CEP) rate and customer data with the state's Office of the Public Advocate (OPA)
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August 12, 2025
In a proceeding in which Duquesne Light Company (DLC) has petitioned the Pennsylvania PUC for approval of an Affiliate Services Agreement between Duquesne Light Company and its affiliate The Efficient Network (TEN), DLC has filed a general scope of work that had been included in the procurement…
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August 8, 2025
Enbridge Gas Ohio (East Ohio Gas, or EOG, and f/k/a Dominion East Ohio) has agreed with retail suppliers that a recent PUC of Ohio rate case order should be clarified to address what specific PUCO Staff recommendations concerning "service quality" were adopted in the rate case order. Implicated by…
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