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May 27, 2025
"Support Efforts To Enact Preemptive Retail-Choice Law"
DOJ Notes, "Laws And Regulations Can Undermine Reliability And Affordability By Protecting Incumbent Electricity Providers From Competition Or Disruptive Innovation"
May 23, 2025
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine recently signed HB 15, which includes several provisions related to the retail electric and natural gas markets, including the elimination of electric security plans, with a new requirement for electric utilities to provide the Standard Service Offer through a statutorily…
May 22, 2025
R Street released a policy study on electric competition which included grade rankings for each state
May 21, 2025
MidAmerican Energy Services, LLC has petitioned the Texas PUC to be relieved of its current designation as a large service provider (LSP, or non-volunteer POLR) for the 2025-26 term
May 20, 2025
Maryland Governor Wes Moore has signed SB 937 which requires "each electricity supplier" to purchase energy storage capacity credits under a state procurement program
May 14, 2025
Staff of the Massachusetts DPU has shared further details concerning certain aspects of Staff's proposed new customer protections governing auto-renewals
May 8, 2025
Staff of the Massachusetts DPU recently presented a revised proposal to protect retail energy customers under contract renewals
April 30, 2025
The Texas House passed to engrossment HB 1359 which provides for the creation of a fund for bill payment assistance for low-income electric customers for bills due during an extreme weather emergency, and critical care residential customers who have received notice of an impending service…
April 24, 2025
Two hearing examiners of the Massachusetts DPU have released a schedule for working sub-groups to address a DPU Staff proposal to mandate that all retail energy enrollments occur through the state's Energy Switch MA website
April 24, 2025
The Pennsylvania PUC denied a proposal from Peoples Natural Gas Company LLC to automatically enroll customers into Peoples' Customer Assistance Program (CAP) if the customer has an account balance exceeding $300 and Peoples received a Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) grant for the…
April 22, 2025
The Connecticut PURA has further extended the deadline for PURA's Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement (EOE) to propose recommended language changes to retail electric supplier contracts in light of statutory authority under which PURA may determine the "appropriate limitations" with which…
April 18, 2025
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC has filed to reduce Rider TEEEF (Temporary Emergency Electric Energy Facilities) as a result of CEHE conveying to ERCOT and CPS Energy fifteen 32 MW TEEEF units currently leased by CEHE, to help address a lack of local capacity and transmission import…
April 16, 2025
The PUC of Ohio has deferred, to the FirstEnergy Ohio utilities' current electric security plan proceeding, potential changes to the utilities' Rider NMB and the Rider NMB opt-out pilot
April 14, 2025
In advance of a potential forthcoming rulemaking, Texas PUC Staff have sought feedback from various entities, including retail electric providers, concerning potential changes to the required emergency operations plans which entities must develop and file
April 14, 2025
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) today released the agenda and additional information regarding its upcoming April 24, 2025 public hearing to explore the impact of data centers and other large load customers on the state’s electric grid
April 11, 2025
Text has been posted for the committee substitute for Texas bill HB 1359, which was reported favorably out of the House State Affairs committee earlier this month
April 10, 2025
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric has filed a proposed tariff for new Rider RRC, Rate Reduction Credit, for a customer refund to be provided through retail electric providers, showing the amount to be refunded to each customer per kWh or per kVA, as applicable
April 2, 2025
Two Massachusetts DPU Hearing Officers have issued a memo identifying the stakeholders wishing to present at an upcoming working group meeting in the DPU's newly revived review of the retail energy market
April 2, 2025
A committee substitute for Texas bill HB 1359 has been reported favorably out of the House State Affairs committee
April 1, 2025
In an annual 1307(f) application, Peoples Natural Gas Company LLC (the "Company") has filed at the Pennsylvania PUC to change tariff language concerning the utility's obligation to provide retail suppliers, who are assigned certain capacity, with the option to purchase gas supplies associated with…
March 31, 2025
The PUC of Ohio has scheduled for April 24, 2025 a workshop to initiate a review of the "minimum gas service standards" in Ohio Adm.Code Chapter 4901:1-13 (Case No. 25-177-GA-ORD)
March 28, 2025
Opt-out Program Would, "Conflict With The Public Utility Code," ALJ Says
A Pennsylvania PUC ALJ in an initial decision would deny 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…
March 27, 2025
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) today voted 5-0 to approve a motion by Chairman Stephen M. DeFrank to convene a public hearing exploring the growing impact of large-scale electric customers — including data centers and other high-energy users — on the state’s electric grid.
March 24, 2025
In testimony in the rate case of the FirstEnergy Ohio electric utilities, IGS Energy and the Retail Energy Supply Association sought, among other things, elimination of the $5 switching fee
March 24, 2025
The New York PSC approved a modification to the effective date for the changes in the electricity Market Supply Charge Adjustment Factors (“MSC Adjustors”), Monthly Adjustment Clause Adjustment Factor (“MAC Adjustor”), Ancillary Service Charges, NTAC, and NYISO Transmission Charges at Consolidated…
