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August 6, 2019
United Illuminating has filed a report concerning customer response to a notice of incorrect default service rates that had been posted in May
August 5, 2019
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have proposed the fees to be allocated to retail electric providers and other companies to cover the cost of broadcasting PUCT meetings online for FY 2020.
August 1, 2019
East Coast Power & Gas, LLC has named Brian Krall as Executive Vice President, Electric Trading
July 30, 2019
Centrica plc announced that Iain Conn, Group Chief Executive Officer, has agreed with the Board that he will step down as CEO and retire from the Board next year.
July 29, 2019
The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has denied an appeal of a lower court ruling which had dismissed a putative class action suit against Direct Energy Services, LLC, as the Seventh Circuit found that neither the wholesale electric price nor the utility price to compare is an…
July 29, 2019
In comments filed in the Pennsylvania PUC's review of default service cost assignment, rate structure, and procurement issues, a coalition of retail electric suppliers proposed that the default service obligation be assigned to retail electric generation suppliers (EGSs) via a competitive bidding…
July 29, 2019
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has reversed a dismissal of a purported class action against XOOM Energy, LLC and an affiliate (defendants) over pricing, as the Second Circuit said that XOOM's contractual language differed from that in another retail supplier proceeding…
July 29, 2019
Centrica plc has announced an investment into Minut, a Scandinavian tech startup that has developed a smart home alarm that combines wireless sensor technology with machine learning to monitor the home environment.
July 26, 2019
FERC has directed PJM to not run in August 2019 the Base Residual Auction (BRA) under its RPM capacity market for the 2022-2023 delivery year under its existing tariff
July 25, 2019
Suffield Solar, a subsidiary of Canadian Solar, and Direct Energy Business, announced that they have signed a long-term agreement under which Direct Energy Business will purchase all of the electrical output and associated capacity from the Suffield solar facility (32 MWp/23 MWac) being developed in…
July 24, 2019
Fairfield Energy (stylized as FairfieldEnergy) has recently been formed by several Texas retail market veterans
July 23, 2019
Original Erroneous Data Had Resulted In Lower Bills For ConEd, Higher Bills For Some ESCOs
FERC granted a waiver sought by Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. to allow ConEd to correct metering data for April 2018 beyond the 130-day period prescribed in the tariff
July 22, 2019
Direct Energy Business, LLC has submitted to the Virginia SCC a motion for temporary injunctive relief directing Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia ("Dominion" or "Dominion Virginia") immediately to process all pending enrollment requests by Direct Energy Business to…
July 19, 2019
Said To Be First REP In Texas To Accept Apple Wallet, Google Pay
Direct Energy is now providing Texas customers the ability to pay bills through mobile wallets such as Apple Wallet or Google Pay.
July 19, 2019
The Connecticut PURA has referred the matter of changes in prices, under what PURA calls "fixed" price contracts, by Spark Energy, LLC (Spark), and Direct Energy Services, LLC (Direct) to the Connecticut Attorney General and Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection for further investigation, if…
July 17, 2019
Says OCC Ignores Scaling Factor, Other Impacts On Capacity Costs
Spark Energy LLC has requested that the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority hold a hearing in PURA's proceeding addressing a declaratory ruling regarding the altering of the prices in fixed-price contracts, specifically, with respect to ISO charges
July 10, 2019
The Town of Chazy in Clinton County, NY has selected Direct Energy Services to supply its opt-out municipal electric aggregation, in the NYSEG service area
July 2, 2019
Direct Energy announced for Texas residential customers a new 24-month fixed-price electricity plan that includes 12 hours of free power from 9 p.m. to 9 a.m. and a Hive View smart indoor camera.
July 2, 2019
Files Proposed Letters To Affected Customers
Connecticut Light and Power (Eversource) has filed with PURA data concerning the number of retail supplier customers impacted by a CL&P billing system error which saw such customers of retail suppliers charged an incorrect rate, and also filed with PURA proposed letters to be sent to affected…
July 1, 2019
NRG Energy and Direct Energy have filed, for various of their retail energy brands, separate requests with the Public Utility Commission of Texas for the provision of the low-income customer identification service for the State fiscal year beginning on September 1, 2019 (FY2020).
June 28, 2019
In a brief before the Connecticut PURA, the Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel said that retail electric suppliers' exercise of "change in law" clauses can not supersede the statutory obligation to obtain customer consent
June 26, 2019
A group of retail electric suppliers filed a motion to intervene in the newly filed electric rate case of Baltimore Gas & Electric, where the Maryland PSC will address a proposal from BGE to reflect, in the bypassable SOS Administrative Adjustment, costs of providing SOS that are not currently…
June 19, 2019
Several retail suppliers responded to separate show cause orders issued by the Maryland PSC.
June 19, 2019
In written testimony submitted to an Ohio Senate committee on HB 6, the nuclear subsidy bill, Teresa Ringenbach, Sr. Manager of Midwest Government & Regulatory Affairs for Direct Energy, said that, "As written House Bill 6 is a direct attack on retail energy competition in Ohio."
June 19, 2019
Centrica plc announced today an agreement to purchase SmartWatt, an energy services and solutions company, for $37 million (£29 million).
