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March 24, 2025
Utility Files To Lower Merchant Function Charge
A tariff change under a newly filed rate case from Columbia Gas in Pennsylvania would provide that switch confirmation letters could be sent to customers via email
March 14, 2025
The Massachusetts DPU scheduled for April 16, 2025 a further workgroup meeting in the DPU's recently restarted retail energy market review proceeding, in which, as previously reported, DPU Staff has called for a market "reset"
March 13, 2025
Addresses Proposal For "Do Not Switch" List
The Pennsylvania PUC issued a final order maintaining the requirement for electric and gas utilities to make Eligible Customer Lists (ECLs) available to retail suppliers, but ordered various changes to the ECL process and addressed related issues
March 13, 2025
The Maryland PSC today issued an order on the application and related issues concerning the new residential retail energy price caps. All provisions in this story apply to residential service only.
March 3, 2025
AEP Ohio is seeking, through two proposed agreements filed at the PUC of Ohio, to own and operate two natural gas-powered generation systems (fuel cells) to be located at two customer data center locations
February 28, 2025
The PUC of Ohio has assigned Case No. 25-177-GA-ORD for a review Of Ohio Adm.Code Chapter 4901:1-13
February 27, 2025
In a Feb. 27 procedural order (not an interim decision), the Connecticut PURA has directed its Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement (EOE) to propose changes in retail supplier contracts in light of statutory changes allowing PURA to impose "appropriate limitations" on retail supplier…
February 24, 2025
SB 1513 has been newly filed in the Texas legislature which would authorize the creation of a fund to provide a discount to low-income (as defined by the bill) retail electric customers via the customer's REP, similar to the prior Lite-Up program
February 24, 2025
A Texas bill (HB 3157) would allow TDUs to implement interim rates during the pendency of a rate case
February 24, 2025
Editor's note. This story has been corrected to reflect the current nature of Rider BTCR at AEP Ohio, that the current Rider BTCR at AEP Ohio is nonbypassable for all customers (including being nonbypassable for pilot customers), and that the consultant's report does NOT recommend changes in the…
February 24, 2025
Editor's note. This story has been corrected to reflect the current nature of Rider BTCR at AEP Ohio, that the current Rider BTCR at AEP Ohio is nonbypassable for all customers (including being nonbypassable for pilot customers), and that the consultant's report does NOT recommend changes in the…
February 17, 2025
Oncor has filed at the Texas PUC a proposed increase to its Distribution Cost Recovery Factor, Rider DCRF, charged to retail electric providers
February 14, 2025
SB 1312, authored by State Sen. Molly Cook (D), has been filed in Texas which would expand the criteria under which moratoriums for disconnection for non-payment are imposed
February 14, 2025
The New York PSC denied rehearing of its November 2024 order concerning municipal aggregation outreach and other requirements which, among other things, prohibited ESCOs, who supply a community choice aggregation, from sharing a CCA customer's account number with the CCA administrator absent the…
February 13, 2025
The Texas PUC approved a final rule requiring TDUs to maintain online outage trackers (or maps)
February 13, 2025
REC-Only Contracts May Not "Yield" Rate Exceeding Default Service For Hardship Customers (Essentially Would Ban Non-shopping Hardship Customers From REC Contracts)
February 12, 2025
A Texas bill (SB 6) filed today, authored by Sen. Phil King and Sen. Charles Schwertner, addresses several policies concerning large electricity loads, including minimum transmission charges and the availability of generation co-located with load to serve ERCOT during grid emergencies
February 10, 2025
Baltimore Gas & Electric has filed at the Maryland PSC to modify its electric and gas tariffs to remove the requirement that BGE make customer lists available for purchase by retail suppliers
February 10, 2025
In a proposal for adoption on new rules requiring TDUs to maintain online outage trackers (or maps), Texas PUC Staff would decline to require TDUs to maintain an ESI ID outage database which would have allowed the REP of record to see if such ESI ID was included in an outage, and, if so, the TDU's…
February 6, 2025
Default Service Rates On Supplier Disclosure Summary
February 3, 2025
HB 2305 has been filed in the Texas legislature which would allow ERCOT to request information from LSEs concerning customer response to conservation appeals, and would require REPs to provide such information
February 3, 2025
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric has sought Texas PUC approval for a 2026-28 system resiliency plan
February 3, 2025
As part of newly filed electricity and natural gas rate cases, Consolidated Edison in New York has filed to increase the merchant function charges, and the Billing and Payment Processing charge
February 3, 2025
With respect to retail market issues, the FirstEnergy Ohio utilities' newly filed electric security plan (ESP VI) maintains various provisions previously adopted or ordered by the PUC of Ohio in May 2024 under ESP V, prior to the FirstEnergy Ohio EDCs withdrawing ESP V
February 3, 2025
Connecticut Light & Power and United Illuminating, in a joint motion, have asked that the Connecticut PURA, in a proceeding addressing appropriate limitations on customer choice to hardship customers, issue a straw proposal and allow for a comment period prior to adopting any new limitations
