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September 10, 2015
A draft interim Connecticut PURA decision would prohibit electric suppliers from serving residential customers on a month-to-month, or variable, rate at the end of a contract term if such contract was executed after October 1, 2015.
September 9, 2015
While residential customers at Sharyland Utilities, LP have faced higher transmission and distribution charges for a variety of reasons, if customers selected the lowest priced offer from a retail electric provider, they could offset the majority of those T&D increases, reflecting rate competition…
September 9, 2015
The Massachusetts DPU has proposed releasing an "interim" electricity shopping website for customers as it continues with development of a more robust website.
September 4, 2015
Purchase of receivables is among the issues to be decided by a rate case settlement filed by PPL Electric and various stakeholders announced yesterday
September 3, 2015
Several New York municipalities have asked the New York PSC for assistance in allowing municipalities to identify ESCOs operating within a municipality's boundary, so that the municipality can know which ESCOs should be remitting Gross Receipts Tax amounts to the municipality
September 2, 2015
The Connecticut PURA has assigned Docket 15-09-03 for an investigation into net metering kWh banking, particularly when a customer switches their retail electric supplier
August 24, 2015
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have concluded it would be "reasonable" to approve a change in the transmission cost recovery factor (TCRF) allocation factors at Sharyland Utilities, L.P.
August 24, 2015
A Maine PUC hearing examiner's report concerning Emera Maine’s proposed Heat Pump Program, under which the utility would offer heat pumps to customers, would conclude that the utility itself may not offer the program, though the program may be offered through an affiliate.
August 20, 2015
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority sought briefs regarding Public Act 15-90, which banned variable rates for residential customers, but which directed PURA to develop recommendations for appropriate rate treatment for customers whose fixed prices expire.
August 18, 2015
The Massachusetts DPU has denied a request from the state's attorney general to assess retail suppliers the costs of retaining expert assistance in the DPU's investigation of the retail market, finding that the DPU lacks authority to require retail suppliers to pay such AG costs.
August 14, 2015
The Massachusetts DPU has asked for stakeholder comment regarding what customers should be included in customer lists provided to municipal aggregations.
August 12, 2015
Staff of the California PUC have recommended that the Commission oppose SB 286, which would increase the amount of load permitted to take direct access service, unless the bill is amended
August 10, 2015
A Pennsylvania ALJ would adopt changes to the allocation of the customer-share proceeds of Columbia Gas' off-system sales (OSS) and capacity releases in light of the current mechanism's negative impact on customer choice, though the ALJ would not adopt the solution preferred by natural gas suppliers…
August 7, 2015
Retail electric providers opposed a delay sought by the Office of Public Utility Counsel concerning an update to Sharyland Utilities L.P.'s Transmission Cost Recovery Factor.
August 6, 2015
The Massachusetts DPU has issued a revised draft of rules governing the assignment of a retail supplier's customers to another retail supplier.
August 6, 2015
The Illinois Commerce Commission last month ordered Ameren to cease activity regarding implementation of a small volume transportation (SVT) natural gas program, which would have introduced retail choice for mass market natural gas customers.
August 5, 2015
Consolidated Edison's proposed CONnectED Homes Platform, a Reforming the Energy Vision demonstration project which envisions the utility bundling and reselling value-added services to customers, was not among a set of initial demonstration projects which received approval from Staff this week.
August 4, 2015
The Connecticut PURA has sought stakeholder comments as part of its re-examination of several issues from its November 2014 order in Docket 13-07-18, including issues related to: customer notification method requirements; supplier website requirements; cancellation (rescission) methodology…
August 3, 2015
N.Y. Staff Request Extension on Proposal For Implementing New Rules for ESCO Service to Low-Income Customers
July 31, 2015
Texas Approves Settlement Imposing New Charges on REPs
July 30, 2015
Due to the various cancellation and enrollment standards that are currently in use in the Connecticut market, "it is difficult for all licensed electric suppliers to uniformly apply Conn. Gen. Stat. §16-245o(h)(8)," regarding automatic renewal of residential customers, a draft Connecticut PURA…
July 29, 2015
The 2015 Annual Baseline Assessment of Choice in Canada and the United States (ABACCUS) was released yesterday and the accompanying report concludes that municipal aggregation risks becoming an "end point" which stifles a fully competitive market
July 29, 2015
New York PSC Staff have proposed a new definition of "fixed price" in proposed changes to the Uniform Business Practices
July 29, 2015
Staff of the New York PSC have recommended that ESCOs be required to use standard contracts for residential service, and would introduce elements of standardization to non-residential contracts.
July 27, 2015
Certain of the Reforming the Energy Vision proposed demonstration projects -- particularly Consolidated Edison's CONnectED Homes Platform -- would provide to selected utility partners, "a distinct and discriminatory competitive advantage," the Retail Energy Supply Association said in comments to the…
