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May 12, 2023
Nstar has filed new electricity basic service rates for its Western service area (WCMA load zone, former WMECO territory) for the period beginning July 1, 2023
May 3, 2023
The Retail Energy Advancement League (REAL) today released an analysis, using only the offers available on the state-managed website, EnergySwitchMA.gov, which REAL said shows that if all Massachusetts customers had enrolled with the lowest available fixed-rate offer from a retail provider…
April 24, 2023
SmartestEnergy US announced that it has launched in the ISO New England region, initially with service at Connecticut Light and Power, United Illuminating, and National Grid (Massachusetts), serving medium and large C&I customers on fully fixed products
March 15, 2023
Nstar has filed with the Massachusetts DPU proposed new standard complete billing percentages (SCBPs), or purchase of receivables (POR) discount rates, proposed to be effective May 1, 2023
March 8, 2023
The Connecticut PURA has posted a draft annual report on electric competition to the General Assembly for 2022
February 9, 2023
Wholesale Supplier Proposes Longer Term Fixed Procurements Of Default Service (Fixed Volume Financial Block)
January 16, 2023
Poll Shows Customer Desire For Choice
The Retail Energy Advancement League (REAL) filed in Connecticut a report, which included recent customer polling data, which REAL said, "definitively demonstrates that retail electric supplier products in Connecticut are not 'overpriced' or 'harmful'."
December 19, 2022
On rehearing, the Massachusetts DPU affirmed its prior finding that customer lists provided to municipal aggregations are limited to those customers who are eligible for opt-out aggregation, and therefore the lists shall not include competitive retail customers who are shopping.
December 13, 2022
The default service (energy service) rate for the Small customer group at Public Service Company of New Hampshire (PSNH) d/b/a Eversource Energy is set to fall about 10% for the six-month period beginning February 1, 2023
December 12, 2022
The Massachusetts DPU denied a petition from National Grid which had sought to exclude the responsibility for costs resulting from the ISO New England Mystic Cost of Service Agreement from electricity basic service (default service) bids, with bidders instead passing through to National Grid their…
December 5, 2022
The Connecticut PURA directed Connecticut Light & Power (Eversource) to cease implementation of CL&P's plan to streamline the process for hardship customers to opt into electric choice, which requires that such customers forfeit their hardship status
December 1, 2022
The Retail Energy Advancement League ('REAL') requested that the Connecticut PURA Authority close PURA's current investigation into whether retail supplier offers are just and reasonable, "as the current market confirms that there can be no proof that electric supplier products are overpriced or…
November 28, 2022
Connecticut Light & Power (Eversource) informed the Connecticut PURA that it plans to streamline the process for hardship customers to opt into electric choice, which requires that such customers forfeit their hardship status
November 23, 2022
The New Hampshire PUC denied a request from Public Service Company of New Hampshire (Eversource) to modify PSNH's default service process to provide that PSNH may self-supply, through ISO-NE market purchases, any unfilled default service tranches to the extent an RFP fails, and denied PSNH's…
November 21, 2022
Public Service Company of New Hampshire (Eversource) has petitioned the New Hampshire PUC to modify the current default energy service framework to allow the potential for PSNH to self-supply default service based on ISO-NE market procurements, and to provide for a confidential technical session…
November 18, 2022
Nstar (Eversource Energy) has filed basic service electric rates with the Massachusetts DPU for its Eastern MA service area for the period beginning January 1, 2023
November 17, 2022
Connecticut Light & Power has filed Standard Service rates for the period January 2023 through June 2023, and Last Resort Service Rates for the period January 2023 through March 2023
November 17, 2022
As the Connecticut electric utilities filed new default service rates that are in some cases 100% higher than current rates (see related stories today), Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont stated, "In the coming days, I will be calling the General Assembly into special session to adopt legislation…
November 15, 2022
NSTAR Electric Company d/b/a Eversource Energy filed with the Massachusetts DPU new basic service electricity rates for its Western Massachusetts service territory (WMA), formerly WMECO, for the period beginning January 1, 2023
November 11, 2022
The New Hampshire PUC dismissed, without prejudice, a petition for a, "Determination of Whether New Hampshire Residential Customers Benefited From Electricity Deregulation."
October 12, 2022
Settlement Includes $100 Payments To Some Customers, Restitution To Others
Verde Energy USA Inc. (Verde) would make a $1.5 million donation to the Connecticut utilities to offset hardship arrearages, provide $100 to certain customers, provide restitution to other customers, and exit Connecticut's electric market, under a settlement among Verde, the Office of Education…
September 27, 2022
Responding to a request from the Massachusetts Attorney General, the Massachusetts DPU said that, "In regards to examining rules governing future procurement of basic service, the Department intends to open such an investigation after the resolution of the short-term procurement proposals pending…
September 19, 2022
A New Hampshire resident, described in a filing as, "an acknowledged leader in the movement toward retail competition and deregulation of the electric utility industry," has filed a petition with the state's PUC for a, "Determination of Whether New Hampshire Residential Customers Benefited From…
July 19, 2022
In a recent market update, the Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel noted that, "In the month of May 2022, seven out of ten residential supplier customers paid less than the Standard Offer in Eversource territory, and six out of ten residential supplier customers paid less than the Standard Offer…
June 30, 2022
Regulator's Staff Seeks Penalty, Alleging Restitution Not Paid By Deadline
The Connecticut PURA recently adopted a final order requiring Sunwave Gas & Power CT, Inc. to provide restitution to customers dropped to default service as a result of Sunwave's previously reported suspension at ISO New England earlier this year
