March 29, 2021
66% Of Retail Supplier Customers On Utility Bill Payment Arrangements Are Paying Greater Than Default Service Over 14,000 Customers Remain On Supplier Variable Rates After Ban For New Customers
The Connecticut PURA has released a draft annual report to the legislature on the state of electric competition
Click for More
March 2, 2021
In filing a 10-K for the year ending December 31, 2020, NRG reported mass market customer data.
Click for More
February 2, 2021
The Michigan PSC released its calendar year 2020 report on retail electric choice
Click for More
November 6, 2020
In a 10-Q for the quarter ending September 30, 2020, NRG reported a decline in mass market customer count versus June 30, 2020
Click for More
July 31, 2020
Customers On Retail Supply Paying On Average 1.7¢/kWh More Than ComEd Share Of Competitive Supply Residential Customers Served By Municipal Aggregations Grows 35% At ComEd, Nears 60%
The Illinois Commerce Commission's Office of Retail Market Development has published its annual retail market report, which includes a comparison of costs paid by customers served by an alternative retail electric suppliers (ARES), including through municipal aggregation, versus the costs that would…
Click for More
July 23, 2020
Utility Voluntarily Provided Aggregate Bill Data To OPC; OPC Asks PSC To Order Other EDCs To Provide Data
The Maryland Office of People's Counsel reported that low-income residential customers who are served by a competitive retail electric supplier at the Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative (SMECO) paid, on average, about $20,000 more in aggregate than what they would have paid under SOS, in each of…
Click for More
May 8, 2020
Retail Revenue, Volume Data Disclosed
NRG reported in a 10-Q its mass market customer count, which is lower than the total as of December 31, 2019
Click for More
May 6, 2020
In reporting earnings, Dominion reported its average retail energy marketing customer accounts for the first quarter of 2020
Click for More
March 31, 2020
Report: Over 80% Of Residential Retail Supply Customers Paid Rate Higher Than Default Service In Second Half Of 2019 Regulator Notes Thousands Of Legacy Variable Rate Customers Paying Rates Above 15¢
Complaints Against Retail Suppliers Fall By Half
Click for More
March 5, 2020
Residential Natural Gas Migration Declines
The New York PSC posted year-end electricity and natural gas migration reports for the year 2019
Click for More
March 5, 2020
The Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel published an analysis of retail electricity supplier customers who remain on legacy variable rates, stating that variable rate customers, who represent less than 10% of customers on competitive supply at Connecticut Light & Power, account for nearly 50% of…
Click for More
January 23, 2020
Several Michigan electric utilities have filed their final 10% choice cap for 2020
Click for More
January 23, 2020
The Michigan PSC released its calendar year 2019 report on retail electric choice
Click for More
January 22, 2020
Consumer Counsel Issues Discovery For Utilities To Report Suppliers' Specific Variable Rates
The Connecticut utilities has responded to a PURA interrogatory and have reported the number of residential customers still served under a variable rate
Click for More
January 13, 2020
PPL Sees First Increase In Net Residential Shopping In Two Years Statewide Loss Of Residential Electric Shoppers Narrows To 1,000
Five Pennsylvania electric distribution companies saw a net gain in the number of residential electric customers on competitive supply during December, as the statewide decline in residential electric shopping narrowed to a loss of 1,000 accounts
Click for More
December 9, 2019
Statewide Residential Shopping Continues To Decline
West Penn Power saw its first monthly net increase in the number of residential electric customers on competitive retail supply since March 2017, according to the latest stats posted by the Pennsylvania PUC
Click for More
November 11, 2019
Since late August 2019, Pennsylvania has seen the net decline of the number of residential electric customers on competitive supply slow
Click for More
October 30, 2019
Southern Co., the ultimate parent of Southstar Energy Services and related brands, reported a lower retail competitive natural gas customer count in its Gas Marketing Services segment, in reporting third quarter earnings
Click for More
September 12, 2019
Pennsylvania saw the number of residential electric customers on competitive supply decline by almost 9,000 customers from late July 2019 to late August 2019
Click for More
August 1, 2019
Says Shopping Low-Income Customers Pay 25% Higher Rates
A report released today by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey says that Massachusetts individual residential electric customers who switched to a competitive electric supplier paid $76.2 million more than if they would have remained with default service during the one-year period from July…
Click for More
July 1, 2019
At Ameren, Where Residential ARES Customers Are "Overwhelmingly" Aggregation Customers, ARES Customers Paid 1.6¢/kWh More Than Default Service
Yearly Cost Under Retail Supply Versus SOS Is $124 Million Higher At ComEd; $122 Million At Ameren
Click for More
June 21, 2019
Says Data Voluntarily Provided By One Utility Shows Low-Income Customers Paying More Than SOS Renews Call For PSC To Require All Utilities To Report On Costs Paid By Retail Choice Customers Versus Default Service
In comments on an FY 2020 plan concerning the electric universal service program (EUSP) in Maryland, the Office of People’s Counsel said that low-income customers on competitive retail electric supply at the Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative (SMECO) have incurred, "massive net losses" versus…
Click for More
June 13, 2019
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) today highlighted the 20th anniversary of the Natural Gas Choice and Competition Act
Click for More
May 7, 2019
PPL Sees Large Spike In Net Residential Migration Decline
After March saw a slowing in the net loss of residential electric customers on competitive supply in Pennsylvania, April saw the monthly net decline in residential electric shoppers once again approach 10,000 customers, according to the latest stats from the Pennsylvania PUC
Click for More
April 11, 2019
PPL Sees Significant Improvement In Shopping Losses Monthly Decline In Residential Shopping Lowest In Past Year
The rate of the net decline in the number of residential electric customers on competitive supply in Pennsylvania slowed during March, according to the latest stats from the Pennsylvania PUC
Click for More