February 14, 2020
The town of Lincoln, NH has placed on its March annual town meeting agenda a warrant proposing to adopt an opt-out municipal aggregation (community choice aggregation)
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February 14, 2020
The Texas PUC today approved a settlement in the base rate proceeding of CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric (CenterPoint Houston or CNP)
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February 14, 2020
Rate Case Settlement Includes Tax Refund Rider Applicable To REPs, Unique To Central, North AEP Service Areas
Settlement Generally Adopts System-Wide Rates For AEP Texas, But Some Credits, Legacy Charges Remain Unique To Central, North Divisions
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February 13, 2020
Eliminates Contiguous Requirement For Aggregation To Take Competitive Supply If Supply Meets Renewable Threshold
The Virginia House of Delegates has passed HB 889, which would, among other things, allow all customers of the investor-owned utilities to purchase 100% renewable electricity from a competitive retail supplier regardless of any utility green offering
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February 13, 2020
Arizona Staff Releases Supplemental Research Report On Retail Electric Choice, Cite "Complex" Nature Of Market Design, Reliability, Stranded Costs
Staff of the Utilities Division of the Arizona Corporation Commission have filed a supplemental research report on retail electric competition, which includes an observation concerning what the report calls, "artificially low prices," that are "often" used to entice customers to enroll with a retail…
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February 11, 2020
The Maryland PSC is set to launch later this month a new electricity shopping website, MD Electric Choice (mdelectricchoice.com)
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February 11, 2020
One Draft Would Rely On Utility Competitive Affiliate To Serve Non-Shopping Customers All Suppliers Would Be Required To File Range Of Rates With ACC For Approval "Written" Authorization Required For Customer Switch
Alternative Draft Would Limit Choice To Customers 100 kW Or Larger
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February 10, 2020
A Virginia House of Delegates committee has reported favorably and advanced to a first reading in the House HB 889, which would, among other things, allow all customers of the investor-owned utilities to purchase 100% renewable electricity from a competitive retail supplier regardless of any utility…
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February 7, 2020
The New York PSC has approved the renewal of waivers for three ESCOs to allow such ESCOs to serve low-income (assistance program participant) customers with a guaranteed savings plan
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February 7, 2020
Tables Bill Banning Door-to-Door Electricity Marketing, For Further Development Work Session Includes Suggestion To License "People At The Door" PUC Oversight Of Retail Supplier Rates, Capping At SOS Also Considered
Maine's joint Committee On Energy, Utilities and Technology yesterday voted 8-1 to recommend "ought not to pass" LD 1917, a bill which would completely prohibit residential electric choice, and place all residential customers on Standard Offer service, no later than January 1, 2022
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February 5, 2020
RESA Proposal Would Exempt Suppliers With Years Of History Of Compliance From New Quarterly RPS Reporting UI Says, If Quarterly Reporting Sought, Initial Load Data Reported To ISO-NE Should Be Used
Retail electric suppliers in Connecticut said that higher financial security requirement for retail suppliers are a better mechanism to address concerns of unmet RPS obligations (and unpaid alternative compliance payments) in cases of supplier default, versus proposals to accelerate the RPS…
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February 4, 2020
Tesla Says PUC Should Determine Operators Of Commercial EV Charging Stations Are Not Retail Energy Providers
In comments in response to questions in a Texas PUC project concerning electric vehicles, CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC (CEHE) said that the PUC should, "consider encouraging direct utility investment in public EV charging stations in areas where competitive market forces may not reach."
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February 4, 2020
The Pennsylvania PUC will soon implement further revisions to the PA Power Switch electricity shopping website
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February 3, 2020
RESA: Community Choice Aggregation, As Currently Structured In Several States, "Is Not Real Competition Or True Customer Choice"
RESA Recommends Using CCAs, Subject To Sunset Date, During Four Year-Transition Phasing Utilities Out Of Default Supplier Role
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February 3, 2020
Consolidated Edison has filed revisions to correct its previously filed 12-month trailing average utility supply rates, which are to be used as a price cap for certain ESCO offers, due to an "inadvertent computational error" reflected in several of the originally filed rates
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January 23, 2020
The Missouri Senate Transportation, Infrastructure and Public Safety Committee has rejected SJR 34 which would have required that the state put forth to voters a proposed constitutional amendment that would require the introduction of retail electric choice
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January 23, 2020
71% Favor Keeping Electric Choice, But With Stronger Consumer Protections Nearly 90% Oppose Automatic Retail Supplier Contract Renewals Without Written Consent Nearly 90% Support Keeping Utility-Supplied Default Service
A survey of Connecticut voters ages 50 and older conducted for AARP found that nearly nine in ten voters oppose opt-out municipal aggregation for electricity
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January 23, 2020
Additional New York utilities have posted 12-month trailing average utility supply rates, which are to be used as a price cap for certain ESCO offers
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January 23, 2020
A bill has been introduced into Missouri's state senate that would require that the state put forth to voters a proposed constitutional amendment that would require the introduction of retail electric choice
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January 22, 2020
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC (CEHE, or Houston Electric) has announced "key terms" of a to-be filed settlement agreement in its electric rate case which is pending before the Public Utility Commission of Texas
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January 22, 2020
Freedom Energy Logistics has been hired as the official Community Choice Aggregation consultant for the town of Londonderry, New Hampshire
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January 22, 2020
ESCO Says That If Other Retail Suppliers Can't Offer A Compliant Value-Added Product, It's Due To Such Suppliers', "Own Shortcomings"
Agway Energy Services, LLC filed comments with the New York PSC in response to various petitions for rehearing, clarification, and stay of the PSC's December retail energy market reset order, stating that any open issues arising from the order should be addressed in the collaborative process, rather…
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January 22, 2020
PSC Schedules Stakeholder Meeting On ESCO Financial Security Requirements
The Secretary of the New York PSC has extended the deadline for compliance with several of the ordering clauses of the PSC's retail energy market reset order
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January 22, 2020
Would Compel RTO Membership For All Utilities
U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released legislative text of the draft Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation’s (CLEAN) Future Act
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January 22, 2020
Greenidge Generation LLC, which operates on-site generation and its own data center operations, filed a petition at the New York PSC for a declaratory ruling disclaiming jurisdiction over the company's sale of electricity to data center tenants
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