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April 12, 2023
The Maryland PSC approved the consensus recommendations of the PC 44 workgroup for communications that retail suppliers and utilities will send to customers due to a recent law in Maryland that limits customers who receive energy assistance through a program administered by the Office of Home Energy…
April 6, 2023
The Texas PUC has issued a final order in Oncor's base distribution rate case proceeding
April 3, 2023
The Texas Senate Committee on Business & Commerce has reported favorably a revised committee substitute for SB 2012
March 29, 2023
Includes Agreement On Cost Recovery From Suppliers
The East Ohio Gas Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Ohio (DEO, Dominion or the Company) and several retail suppliers have entered into a stipulation to create a service meant to facilitate the optional purchase of "decarbonized" natural gas by customers from competitive retail energy suppliers
March 29, 2023
A PC 44 workgroup, addressing a recent law in Maryland that limits customers who receive energy assistance through a program administered by the Office of Home Energy Programs (OHEP) to retail supplier offers that have been approved by the PSC, has reached a general consensus on communications that…
March 28, 2023
The Pennsylvania PUC has initiated a review of the Customer Assistance Programs (CAPs) at all utilities.
March 27, 2023
NOPEC will resume service, on an opt-out basis, to those electric customers its previously dropped to the standard service offer, to the extent such customers remain eligible for opt-out enrollment, and will also begin service to any other customers eligible for opt-out enrollment
March 23, 2023
A non-unanimous settlement among the Pennsylvania PUC's Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement (I&E), the Office of Small Business Advocate (OSBA), and Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania, Inc. would allow Columbia to offer to its customers a voluntary carbon offset product on a pilot basis
March 23, 2023
A committee substitute has been filed for Texas SB 2012, which, as originally filed, would have implemented a 20% market share cap on retail electric providers, on a corporate-wide basis
March 20, 2023
Lubbock Power and Light has posted proposed delivery rates under a Preliminary Distribution System Charge Rate Structure, for its transition to a distribution company which charges delivery rates to retail electric providers
March 15, 2023
In addressing several non-consensus issues related to rules to implement opt-out municipal aggregation on a pilot basis, the Maryland PSC ruled that, "the Commission finds that the intent of § 7-510.3 is that the Pilot should proceed without requiring Commission approval of supply rates or…
March 14, 2023
The Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia scheduled a Virtual Cybersecurity Conference to discuss, among other topics, "best practices that telecommunications, electric, and natural gas utilities are taking to protect their infrastructure from cybersecurity threats."
March 10, 2023
The Texas PUC approved the recovery of costs for CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric's (CEHE) temporary emergency electric energy facilities (TEEEF), which CEHE originally proposed as part of its DCRF proceeding (with the costs later severed into proposed Rider TEEEF)
March 9, 2023
The Texas PUC adopted without changes a non-unanimous stipulation that provides for Lubbock Power & Light to integrate the remaining portion of its load into the Electric Reliability Council Of Texas (ERCOT), a necessary step for the start of retail electric choice at LP&L this fall
March 9, 2023
A group of Texas senators have unveiled several bills aimed at ERCOT market reform, and among them is a bill that would cap the market share of a retail electric provider, including those REPs under common ownership
March 8, 2023
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio adopted, at each of the four electric utilities with choice programs, default service minimum stay rules that are to apply when a governmental aggregator returns a threshold level of customers to default service prior to the previously established end date of…
March 8, 2023
The Connecticut PURA has posted a draft annual report on electric competition to the General Assembly for 2022
March 7, 2023
Metropolitan Edison Company ('Met-Ed'), Pennsylvania Electric Company ('Penelec'), Pennsylvania Power Company ('Penn Power'), West Penn Power Company ('West Penn'), and various other FirstEnergy entities have filed an application before the Pennsylvania PUC for various transactions which would merge…
March 3, 2023
Suppliers Highlight Current, Historic Realized Savings Under Electric Choice
In exceptions to a draft Investigative Report ('IR') from the Connecticut PURA's Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement ('EOE'), which was based on a consultant’s report ('CR'), the Retail Energy Advancement League (REAL) said that PURA may not rely on the IR and CR's reports data that is…
February 23, 2023
The Connecticut PURA has sought further comment from its Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement (EOE) and the public concerning EOE's request for clarification that any entity, which is not licensed as an aggregator or supplier, and which enrolls a customer, is an agent of a supplier and…
February 10, 2023
Proposals Include Supplier Rate Caps, Restricted Access To Utility Consolidated Billing
Products from retail electric suppliers to residential customers in Connecticut are, "both overpriced and harmful to residential customers," the Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement (EOE) of the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (Authority) said in an EOE report
January 30, 2023
A Public Utilities Commission of Ohio hearing examiner has scheduled for February 13 a status conference in a proceeding considering an application by Dominion East Ohio to offer a program meant to facilitate the optional purchase of "decarbonized" natural gas by customers from competitive retail…
January 26, 2023
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio adopted, without modification to various retail market provisions, a non-unanimous stipulation in a Columbia Gas of Ohio distribution rate case under which Columbia will convene a collaborative to discuss a potential exit from the merchant function for…
January 26, 2023
In adopting a stipulation in Columbia Gas of Ohio's distribution rate case, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio stated, "It is time to look to competitive markets to play a more significant role in the provision of energy efficiency services in this state."
January 25, 2023
The Maryland PSC has opened a rulemaking (RM80) for the purpose of establishing regulations for the Montgomery County Community Choice Aggregation Pilot Program
