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January 22, 2020
PSC Orders Utility To Develop Time Of Use Pilot Limited To SOS Customers
In a final decision in its Modernizing the Energy Delivery System for Increased Sustainability (MEDSIS) proceeding (Power Path DC), the District of Columbia PSC endorsed the Staff recommendation for a new retail electric choice shopping website, and has already begun work on the site
January 22, 2020
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed a brief opposing the relief sought by Pogo Energy in Pogo's petition seeking a declaratory order concerning the construction of Substantive Rule 25.498(a) as it relates to a proposed offering of a levelized payment option for prepaid service
January 22, 2020
The unopposed stipulation among parties in the base rate proceeding of CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric (CenterPoint Houston or CNP), currently before the Texas PUC, would reduce the amount charged to retail electric providers under flat monthly charges, and would also set the level for a rider…
January 21, 2020
The Connecticut PURA has requested additional comments concerning changes in the RPS compliance regulations to accelerate retail supplier and LSE showings of compliance
January 20, 2020
The Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council (NOPEC) said in comments to PUCO, in a rulemaking on natural gas utility bills , that, "[g]overnmental aggregators, like NOPEC, should have access to the Commission’s energy choice website."
January 20, 2020
Consumer Counsel Recommends Penalty For Spoofing Be Revocation Of Retail Supplier's License
January 20, 2020
The Secretary of the New York PSC granted the joint utilities an extension of the deadline for the utilities to develop 12-month trailing average utility supply rates, which will be used as the basis for an ESCO price cap under one of the compliance products under the PSC's retail market reset order
January 17, 2020
The Connecticut PURA denied reconsideration of its previously reported decision which requires all hardship electricity customers to be returned to Standard Service no later than July 1, 2020, including those on existing contracts with retail suppliers, but did provisionally modify a schedule…
January 17, 2020
Adopted Joint Proposal Includes Retail Access Provisions Updated Billing, Payment Charge For ESCOs
The New York PSC approved a joint proposal (JP) in the electric and natural gas rate cases of Consolidated Edison (the "Company") under which ConEd will include new costs in its default service supply rates for electricity and natural gas
January 16, 2020
The Texas PUC adopted an order approving a new rate case expense rider, Rider RCE - Rate Case Expense Docket No. 48591, applicable to retail electric providers at Texas-New Mexico Power
January 16, 2020
The NRG Energy retail suppliers have submitted a request with the New York PSC for a ninety (90) day extension from several of the February 10, 2020 compliance deadlines set forth in the Public Service Commission’s retail energy market 'reset' order, adopted on December 12, 2019
January 15, 2020
The Connecticut PURA has issued interrogatories to Connecticut Light & Power and United Illuminating directing the utilities to, "Provide a list of suppliers and the number of residential accounts currently identified as being served under a variable rate for each supplier."
January 14, 2020
Various individual ESCOs and retail supplier parties, including the Retail Energy Supply Association and National Energy Marketers Association, filed for rehearing, reconsideration and/or clarification of the New York PSC's December ESCO 'reset' order, as various ESCO parties sought a stay of the…
January 14, 2020
Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc., Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation, National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation, The Brooklyn Union Gas Company d/b/a National Grid NY, KeySpan Gas East Corporation d/b/a National Grid, and Niagara Mohawk…
January 10, 2020
The Arizona Corporation Commission has scheduled a Stakeholder Meeting and Workshop in its docket investigation retail electric choice (In the Matter of Possible Modification to the Rules on Retail Electric Competition, R14-2-1601 et seq.)
January 10, 2020
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed in project 50406 a draft proposal for publication of rule amendments to 16 Tex. Admin. Code (TAC) §25.471, relating to general provisions of customer protection rules in the retail electric market
January 9, 2020
Says Ballot Summary Is "Misleading"
The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that the proposed electric choice ballot initiative (Right to Competitive Energy Market for Customers of Investor-Owned Utilities; Allowing Energy Choice), "should not be placed on the ballot."
January 8, 2020
Pilot To Include Warm Transfer Process From Utility Call Center
The Maryland PSC recently accepted two load shaping pilots proposed by retail electric suppliers
January 7, 2020
Legislation will be introduced for Virginia's 2020 General Assembly session, "that would end monopoly control over Virginia’s electricity system, creating competition in the retail sector," proponents of the bill, the Virginia Energy Reform Act, announced today
January 7, 2020
In comments to the Texas PUC on a proposal for publication concerning electric broker regulation, The Energy Professionals Association (TEPA) said that affiliate relationships between brokers and retail electric providers should be disclosed to customers, as well as to the Commission in the broker…
January 7, 2020
In comments to the Texas PUC on a proposal for publication on rules for the regulation of electric brokers, the Alliance for Retail Markets sought a rule which would prohibit the use of duplicative (of existing market participants, such as REPs) or deceptive names by brokers
January 7, 2020
Power Wizard Warns Of REP Abuse Of Provision Allowing REPs Request Verification Of Broker's Agency Relationship With Customer
January 7, 2020
In commenting on a proposed electric broker regulation rule at the Texas PUC, Oncor proposed a provision that would streamline brokers' use of its automated historical usage portal
January 3, 2020
Bill Would, "Increase Consumer Choice By Establishing A Competitive Market"
On January 7, Virginia Delegate Mark Keam and Delegate Lee Ware will announce what is described by proponents as, "bipartisan legislation to eradicate the current system of monopoly utilities controlling the electricity system in Virginia."
January 3, 2020
The Louisiana PSC has directed its Staff to look at all options available -- including allowing industrial customers to purchase electricity supplies on the 'open market' -- to address potential rate increases from new generation investment at Entergy Louisiana
