January 20, 2023
Virginia Bill Seeks To Eliminate Several Current Options For Electric Choice
Virginia HB 1770 would eliminate several of the current limited mechanisms for retail electricity choice in Virginia
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January 19, 2023
New York PSC Adopts Price Limits For Municipal Aggregation Rates, Except For "Renewable" Products
PSC Doesn't Directly Address Opt-Out Community Distributed Generation (Pending In Another Case), But Directs Proposal For Statewide Solar For All Program As Potentially Superior To Opt-Out CDG
January 16, 2023
REAL Report Highlights Current, Historic Savings Under Electric Choice In Connecticut As Evidence That Supplier Products Are Not Overpriced Or Harmful
Poll Shows Customer Desire For Choice
The Retail Energy Advancement League (REAL) filed in Connecticut a report, which included recent customer polling data, which REAL said, "definitively demonstrates that retail electric supplier products in Connecticut are not 'overpriced' or 'harmful'."
January 11, 2023
PUC To Publicly Post Aggregated Revenue, Usage Data From Retail Suppliers
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio said that it will make public aggregated data from competitive retail electric suppliers.
January 6, 2023
Draft Texas PUC Report To Legislature Would Recommend Streamlining Process For Small Claims Complaints
Recommends Requiring Registration Of Large Flexible Loads
Texas PUC Staff have filed a draft Biennial Agency Report to the 88th Legislature, which includes draft legislative recommendations.
December 28, 2022
Proposed Decision In Oncor Rate Case Addresses Inadvertent Gain Charge Applicable To Retail Providers
PFD Would Raise Flat Monthly Charges For Residential Customers Of REPs By 50¢
Four ALJs from the Texas State Office of Administrative Hearings have issued a proposal for decision in Oncor's rate case that addresses retail electric providers' recommendation to eliminate Charge No. DD24 Inadvertent Gain (IAG) from Oncor’s Tariff for Retail Delivery Service
December 27, 2022
New Rules Requiring Retail Suppliers To Maintain Additional Security To Cover RPS Obligations Receive Final Approval, Take Effect
The Connecticut PURA issued a notice stating that revised RPS rules, which include a new requirement that retail electric suppliers must maintain separate security specific to their RPS obligations, have completed the administrative process.
December 21, 2022
PUC Staff Recommends Elimination Of Surcredit To Shopping Customers (Back-out Credit)
Recommends Change In Size Definition For Mercantile Customers?
December 20, 2022
Texas PUC To Form Working Groups On Energy Efficiency Rulemaking Including Role Of Demand Response & REP Participation / Market Structure
A publicly filed memo from the Director of the Texas PUC's Infrastructure Division states that the PUC will form working groups in January 2023 to address the future energy efficiency rulemaking topics listed below:
December 19, 2022
Regulator Denies Muni Aggregation's Petition To Receive Lists Of Competitive Retail (Shopping) Customers
On rehearing, the Massachusetts DPU affirmed its prior finding that customer lists provided to municipal aggregations are limited to those customers who are eligible for opt-out aggregation, and therefore the lists shall not include competitive retail customers who are shopping.
December 16, 2022
New York PSC Denies Rehearing Of Order Ending Waiver Period That Had Allowed ESCO Green Gas Products
The New York PSC denied rehearing of its July 2022 order that had denied waivers to seven specific ESCOs for such suppliers to continue to provide green natural gas products to mass market customers without being subject to the otherwise applicable pricing limits, and set a deadline for such…
December 14, 2022
PUC Adopts Rate Case Settlement That Includes Supplier Consolidated Billing Collaborative
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved a stipulation among certain parties in Duke Energy Ohio's electric rate case that includes provisions for a supplier consolidated billing collaborative, elimination of the switching fee and other retail supplier tariff changes, and changes to the…
December 14, 2022
PUC Issues Order On Fees Charged By EDC To Retail Suppliers; Bypassability Of Certain Default Service-Related Costs
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio issued an order in the current rate case of Dayton Power & Light (AES Ohio)
December 14, 2022
PUC Issues Order In Rulemaking In Which Consumers' Counsel Had Sought To Require Switch Block, Shadow Billing
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has issued a final order in a statutorily required review of the natural gas utility rules under Ohio Adm.Code Chapter 4901:1-13, relating to utility billing, including utility consolidated billing, utility-supplier coordination, and related retail market…
December 12, 2022
Utilities File New Minimum Stay Provisions, Impact On Retail Customer Choice
The Ohio electric distribution utilities have filed new minimum stay provisions, applicable to large municipal aggregation loads returning to standard offer service
December 8, 2022
Pa. PUC Approves PECO Petition To Delay Obligation To File Shopping Plan For CAP Customers, Notes Customers Could Suffer "Potential Harms" From Shopping
The Pennsylvania PUC approved a petition from PECO for PECO to continue to restrict customers enrolled in its Customer Assistance Program (CAP) from shopping for retail electric generation supply until after the Commission issues its final Policy Statement on Electric Customer Assistance Program…
December 1, 2022
Citing Default Service Price Spikes & Recent Shopping Savings, Retail Suppliers Seek Close Of Regulator's Review On Whether Retail Supplier Rates Are Just & Reasonable
The Retail Energy Advancement League ('REAL') requested that the Connecticut PURA Authority close PURA's current investigation into whether retail supplier offers are just and reasonable, "as the current market confirms that there can be no proof that electric supplier products are overpriced or…
November 29, 2022
Texas PUC Staff Propose Draft Rules For Terms & Conditions Of Access By REPs To Muni/Co-op Systems Newly Opening to Customer Choice
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed a draft proposal for publication to establish new 16 Texas Administrative Code (TAC) §25.219 relating to Terms and Conditions of Access by a Competitive Retailer to the Delivery System of a Municipally Owned Utility or Electric Cooperative…
November 29, 2022
Texas PUC Commissioners File Customer Protection Rules For Retail Providers, Partners Participating In Aggregated Distributed Energy Resources Pilot
Texas PUC Commissioners Will McAdams and Jimmy Glotfelty have filed customer protection rules for providers participating in the Aggregate Distributed Energy Resources (ADER) Pilot
November 16, 2022
Utility Would Convene Taskforce To Examine Potential Exit From Merchant Function For Non-Residential Customers, Under Rate Case Settlement
Utility Withdraws Proposed Carbon Offset Offering
Columbia Gas of Ohio has agreed to convene a collaborative to discuss a potential exit from the merchant function for non-residential customers, as part of a non-unanimous stipulation in a rate case
November 14, 2022
Group Of Texas REPs Propose Minimum Letter Of Credit Requirement Of $1 Million For Certification
Stakeholders filed comments at the Texas PUC on proposed changes to the retail electric provider certification requirements and related rules
November 14, 2022
PUC Asks Whether Retail Suppliers & Brokers Should Be Subject To Cybersecurity Obligations
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) has issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Order (ANOPR) to review its current regulations relating to cybersecurity, including whether electric generation suppliers (EGSs) and natural gas suppliers (NGSs) should be subject to the regulations
November 9, 2022
Consumers Counsel Seeks To Implement Switch Block
The Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel has proposed that the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio adopt rules allowing natural gas customers to place a "switch block" on their accounts, and to require natural gas utilities to include shadow billed default service amounts on shopping customers'…
November 4, 2022
Vistra CEO Sees New Brands Tesla, Shell, bp Entering Retail Energy Markets As Helping Drive Market Design Changes Needed To Unlock Retail Supplier Innovation (Supplier Consolidated Billing, SOS)
Retail Suppliers Must "Restore Confidence" In Markets Outside of Texas, Vistra CEO Says
During a Q&A as part of Vistra's third quarter earnings call, Jim Burke, president and CEO of Vistra, said that he thinks new brands such as Tesla, Shell, and bp entering the retail energy markets can help efforts to change market designs to allow retail suppliers to offer innovative products to…
November 2, 2022
Proposed PUC Rule Changes Would Alter Rescission Period Language, Ostensibly Expand To More Customers
Rules Also Address Utility Consolidated Billing, Supplier Coordination
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has opened a periodic statutorily required review of the electric utility minimum customer service rules under Chapter 4901:1-10, Ohio Adm.Code, and Staff has proposed several changes to the current rules