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January 6, 2016
Filings by the Pennsylvania electric utilities to comply with Energy Efficiency and Conservation (EE&C) requirements under Act 129, "serve[] to further entrench the relationship between the monopoly EDC and its traditional customer base while not considering reasonable opportunities presented within…
January 4, 2016
The Connecticut PURA has submitted to the legislature a report on residential electric rate structures, and while PURA does not endorse any single recommendation, the report opines that if lawmakers' goal is to maximize savings available in the retail market, then some form of month-to-month rates…
January 4, 2016
The New York PSC has formally opened a review of electric choice at the Long Island Power Authority
December 31, 2015
A final Connecticut PURA decision concerning communication methods that retail suppliers are required to offer to customers for receipt of various notices, and the mechanisms through which suppliers must accept rescissions, would only require suppliers to offer two (rather than the original five)…
December 30, 2015
Proposed new rules for Maryland electric suppliers have been published in the state register, and would allow an electric supplier to estimate the customer's next month rate for purposes of complying with a new advanced disclosure requirement for any change in a residential customer's rate
December 28, 2015
AEP Texas Central has filed at the Public Utility Commission of Texas to temporarily cease billing retail electric providers transition charges under Schedule TC
December 28, 2015
A revised proposal for new electricity supplier rules in Delaware drops the more expansive definition of broker contained in an earlier proposal, and would essentially maintain the current definition.
December 24, 2015
The Delaware PSC formally opened a new docket, to consider a petition from the Delaware Electricity Affordability Committee for the PSC to consider recommended retail electric market enhancements, including purchase of receivables, proposed by the Committee
December 23, 2015
As in prior years, the Michigan PSC has ordered electric utilities and other load-serving entities (LSEs), including retail suppliers, to file assessments of their plans for meeting customer loads during the 2016 to 2020 timeframe.
December 22, 2015
Sustainable Westchester, the pilot opt-out municipal electric aggregation in New York, recently provided an updated timeline concerning the launch of the aggregation at a PSC technical conference on customer data
December 21, 2015
The District of Columbia PSC is disbanding the Retail Competition Working Group.
December 18, 2015
Commissioners of the Public Utility Commission of Texas at yesterday's open meeting agreed to await any potential legislative action on the question of determining low-income customer eligibility for certain retail electricity customer protections (late payment fee waivers and deposit installments)…
December 18, 2015
The New York PSC said that it, "expects more to come," from Consolidated Edison in improving the utility's retail natural gas market, in approving a new pilot winter supply and balancing program (Managed Supply Service, MSS) at ConEd, which the PSC described as an "incremental" improvement
December 17, 2015
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has formally opened an investigation regarding the proper regulatory framework that should be applied to submetering and condominium associations
December 17, 2015
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has ordered hearings on a proposal from Duke Energy Ohio to make certain interval meter data available to retail electric suppliers, noting that Duke's proposal appears to narrow the availability of interval data to retail providers rather than expand it as…
December 16, 2015
The District of Columbia PSC has adopted a final order to make low-income assistance under the current Pepco electric Residential Aid Discount (RAD) portable so that customers continue to receive the same level of assistance regardless of whether they purchase SOS or competitive supply
December 16, 2015
The Retail Energy Supply Association has sought a stay of the requirement that retail electric suppliers conform, by January 1, 2016, their marketing materials to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio's recent "fixed means fixed" order, arguing that the PUCO order implies that there will be…
December 15, 2015
The Delaware Electricity Affordability Committee yesterday endorsed eight retail electric market enhancements, including purchase of receivables, and encouraged the PSC to consider adopting the enhancements
December 11, 2015
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have sought guidance from the Commission regarding two threshold questions concerning the obligation of retail electric providers to provide eligible low-income customers with late payment fee waivers and deposit installments in light of the existing…
December 10, 2015
New York PSC Staff have informed ESCOs that Staff intends to make certain ESCO historic pricing information public.
December 7, 2015
Delaware should obtain, "concrete commitments," from retail electric suppliers that they will actively operate in Delaware if costs related to the numerous retail market enhancements are incurred, Delmarva said in comments on a draft report concerning customer choice enhancements
December 4, 2015
The Public Utility Commission of Texas yesterday at its open meeting ordered Sharyland Utilities, LP to file a rate case before April 30, 2016
December 3, 2015
Electricity Maine, LLC sought a waiver from the Maine PUC from Chapter 305 § 4(B)(6)(a) of the Commission’s Rule governing competitive electricity providers, concerning the timing of renewal letters.
December 3, 2015
Five Texas lawmakers have sent a letter to Texas Public Utility Commission Chair Donna Nelson asking that the Commission expedite a rate case at Sharyland Utilities, and also asked that the Commission consider "rolling back" Sharyland Utilities distribution rates to an earlier level.
December 2, 2015
The Connecticut PURA issued a draft decision which would, among other things, modify the communication methods retail suppliers are required to offer to customers for receipt of various notices, and the mechanisms through which suppliers must accept rescissions
