PSC Staff: Retail Supplier Prices Paid By Residential Customers, "Do Not Have A Reasonable Relationship With Market Prices For Some Customers" Staff: "Many Residential Retail Choice Customers Are Not Benefiting From Retail Choice On A Price Basis, Which Is Likely To Continue With No Changes To Retail Choice" Staff: Require Affirmative Consent For Fixed Rate Change, Or Switch From Fixed To Variable Rate Staff: Require Entire Sales Interaction At Door Or On Phone To Be Recorded Staff: Extend Consumer Protections To Small C&I Customers Staff: Adopt Restrictions On POR Consumer Group: Choice Customers Paid $227M More vs SOS In 2022 OPC: Ban Use Of Third-Party Agents By Retail Suppliers Muni Aggregator Supports "Reforms" To POR To Curb "Deceptive" Practices Some Retail Suppliers Propose POR Clawback, Increasing Supplier Security Requirement To $1 Million Staff of a PSC have proposed a series of retail energy market reforms for consideration

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November 7, 2023

Multiple Utilities Support Eliminating Purchase Of Receivables

Several utilities told a PSC that they, "agree that POR [purchase of receivables] should be eliminated and recommend that the payment posting priority structure in place prior to the implementation of POR be applied."

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June 20, 2023

Retail Suppliers Say Utility's UCB Per Bill Fees Not Justified, Suggest Allocating UCB Fees To Offset SCB Costs

IGS, WGL Energy Services, Inc., NRG Energy, Inc., and Vistra Corp. (the supplier coalition) presented joint testimony in the current electric and gas rate cases of Baltimore Gas & Electric alleging that BGE has not proven that the per-bill fees that BGE imposes upon retail electricity and natural…

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June 19, 2023

BGE Files New SOS Rates

Baltimore Gas & Electric has filed new Type II SOS rates for the period beginning September 1, 2023

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May 31, 2023

PSC Approves New POR Discount Rates At Several Utilities, Some Discount Rates Spike

The Maryland PSC approved, as-filed, new purchase of receivables (POR) discount rates at Baltimore Gas & Electric (both electric and gas), Potomac Edison, and Washington Gas Light

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May 1, 2023

BGE Residential Generation Rate Increasing 22% In October, Small C&I Increasing 17%

Baltimore Gas & Electric has filed in Maryland updates to the bypassable Energy Rate under SOS for the period Oct. 1, 2023 - May 31, 2024

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April 27, 2023

One BGE POR Discount Rate To More Than Triple

Baltimore Gas & Electric has filed with the Maryland PSC new purchase of receivables (POR) discount rates.

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April 27, 2023

Residential SOS Tranche Remains Unfilled After Reserve Procurement; Standard Process Would Be To Initially Serve Load Under Spot Prices

SOS Costs At Other Utilities Increasing 20-30% For Mass Market Customers

A reserve procurement for residential and Type I SOS electricity supplies in Maryland for various utilities resulted in one of the products at Potomac Edison being unfilled

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April 13, 2023

PSC To Hold Reserve Procurement After Several Residential Default Service Bids Rejected; Bids Exceeded Price Benchmark

The Maryland PSC will hold a reserve procurement for SOS supplies after several residential product bids were rejected in a recent procurement at Baltimore Gas and Electric Company, Potomac Electric Power Company (Pepco), The Potomac Edison Company, and Delmarva Power and Light Company

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April 4, 2023

Utilities Blame Lack Of Retail Supplier Commitment As Partially Responsible For Needed Delay In Supplier Consolidated Billing

In comments on a recent workgroup report concerning supplier consolidated billing (SCB) in Maryland, the Exelon utilities blamed, in part, the lack of any commitment from any retail supplier to test SCB as a reason for the delay in SCB which the report had outlined

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