June 24, 2022
The New Hampshire PUC approved a new energy service (default service) rate of 22.566 cents per kWh for the small customer group (residential and small C&I customers) at Public Service of New Hampshire (PSNH or Eversource), for the six-month period starting Aug. 1, 2022
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May 23, 2022
Nstar (Eversource Energy) has filed basic service electric rates with the Massachusetts DPU for its Eastern MA service area for the period beginning July 1, 2022
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May 16, 2022
NSTAR (Eversource Energy) filed with the Massachusetts DPU new basic service electricity rates for…
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April 29, 2022
Residential Discount Falling From 3% to 1.4% At One Utility
A retail energy regulator has conditionally approved the alternative calculations of POR discount rates
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April 25, 2022
A retail energy supplier would pay restitution to 245 customers under a settlement with…
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April 8, 2022
Supplier's Customers To Be Dropped To Default Service
Settlement opposed by AG, OCC
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March 14, 2022
A retail energy supplier has launched…
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March 14, 2022
Staff Reports "Pronounced" Effect On Communities Of Color, Says 14 Suppliers Charged Over 90% Of Such Customers Rate Higher Than SOS Staff Cites Free Advertisement, Enrollment Services Provided To Suppliers Paid By Ratepayers
The Staff of a utility regulator moved that an electric competition report be adopted
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February 10, 2022
The Massachusetts DPU, at both Eversource (Nstar, East & West) and National Grid, has ordered that the currently effective purchase of receivables discount rates (standard complete billing percentages or SCBPs) shall remain in effect until the Department orders otherwise
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February 10, 2022
The Connecticut PURA formally issued a Notice of Violation and Assessment of Civil Penalty (NOV) against Sunwave Gas & Power Connecticut Inc. (Sunwave or Company) which would order Sunwave to pay restitution to all customers returned to standard service whose contracts were for rates less than…
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February 7, 2022
The Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement (EOE) of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (Authority or PURA) sought that PURA issue a Notice of Violation and Assessment of Civil Penalty (NOV) against Sunwave Gas & Power CT, Inc. (Sunwave or Company), and sought an order that would…
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January 28, 2022
The Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel issued an update stating that, for the rolling year of January 2021 through December 2021, Connecticut residential consumers who chose a retail electric supplier paid, in aggregate, $35,861,812 more than the standard offer.
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January 19, 2022
Markley Group, a provider of data center facilities, cloud computing, and network services, announced it has entered a community solar power purchase agreement (PPA) advised by Atlas Retail Energy, with Borrego, a developer, EPC and O&M provider for large-scale renewable energy projects throughout…
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December 27, 2021
Winning Suppliers Disclosed
The New Hampshire PUC recently approved new energy service (default service) rates at Public Service Company of New Hampshire (PSNH or Eversource) for the six-month period beginning February 1, 2022
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November 25, 2021
Would Require Supplier To Return All Customers In State To Default Service, As Regulator Alleges "Deeply Troubling, If Not Sickening" Sales Call/TPV NOV Says Use Of Phrases "Fixed Rate", "Price Protection" Are Deceptive "On Their Own"
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (Authority or PURA) issued a Notice of Violation and Assessment of Civil Penalty (NOV) against Discount Power, Inc. (Discount) which would: impose a fine on Discount in the amount of two million dollars ($2,000,000); would order Discount to pay…
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November 22, 2021
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, 2022
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November 17, 2021
The Connecticut PURA approved without modification a settlement between PURA Enforcement Staff and Clearview Electric, Inc. under which Clearview will pay $500,000 and return its Connecticut customers to default service, as more fully described in our original story on the settlement
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November 15, 2021
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, 2022
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November 8, 2021
Clearview Electric, Inc. would pay $500,000 and return its Connecticut customers to default service under a settlement agreement with the Connecticut PURA's Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement (EOE), Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel, and the Connecticut Attorney General to resolve a…
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November 4, 2021
Connecticut Light & Power has filed Standard Service rates for the period January 2022 to June 2022, and Last Resort Service Rates for the period January 2022 to March 2022
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October 12, 2021
The Connecticut PURA has posted a draft report from its study to examine the potential opportunities and challenges associated with the implementation of electricity community choice aggregation (CCA) for the State of Connecticut
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September 24, 2021
The City of Boston, which operates an opt-out municipal aggregation for electricity, has renewed its request for reconsideration at the Massachusetts DPU in which the City is seeking an order from the DPU to require Nstar to share a list of currently shopping customers with the City
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September 9, 2021
The Connecticut PURA has issued a proposed interim decision to assign specific amounts of costs to retail suppliers for expenses incurred by utilities in implementing a mechanism for suppliers to refund amounts owed to customers under a "next cycle rate" amnesty program.
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August 12, 2021
The Connecticut PURA has initiated a proceeding to assign costs of various EDC billing system upgrades to retail suppliers and develop a mechanism to recover such costs from suppliers (Docket 14-07-19RE07)
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August 10, 2021
National Grid and Nstar have both filed proposals with the Massachusetts DPU on how to address reconciliation of the Standard Complete Billing Percentages (SCBPs) -- the term of purchase of receivables (POR) discounts -- given the DPU's prior order to maintain the current SCBPs
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