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July 29, 2021
Town Square Energy, LLC ("TSE") would make a payment of $400,000 and agrees to a moratorium on in-person marketing under an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance (the "Assurance") entered into with the Commissioner of the Department of Consumer Protection of the State of Connecticut, the Attorney…
July 19, 2021
Mega Energy of New England, LLC would return all of its residential electricity customers in Connecticut to default service and "permanently" exit the state's residential market, and pay $250,000, under a settlement with the Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement (EOE) of the Connecticut…
July 12, 2021
The Connecticut PURA issued a ruling stating that the 25% rate increase notice ("Form 4") which must be sent by retail electric suppliers to residential customers applies to all contracts, both fixed and variable
June 25, 2021
The New Hampshire PUC approved new default service rates at Public Service of New Hampshire (Eversource) for the period August 1, 2021, through January 31, 2022
May 28, 2021
Regulator's Staff Says That Variable Rate Contracts Cannot Be Assigned Under Statute
Starion Energy, Inc. and Major Energy Electric Services, LLC, a brand of Spark Energy, have filed a notice with the Connecticut PURA for the assignment of more than 18,000 Starion Energy electricity customers to Major Energy (as the customer count was stated in a PURA Staff filing)
May 25, 2021
Spark Energy, Inc. ("Spark" or the "Company") announced today that it has executed four separate agreements to acquire a total of approximately 56,900 residential customer equivalents ("RCEs") for a total purchase price of $11.5 million, consisting of approximately 15,700 RCEs in Connecticut's…
May 17, 2021
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, 2021
May 10, 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 July 1, 2021
May 7, 2021
Connecticut Light & Power has filed Standard Service rates for the period July 2021 to December 2021, and Last Resort Service Rates for the period July 2021 to September 2021
May 3, 2021
Normal Annual Revisions Would Have Resulted In Negative POR Discount Rates
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) shall remain in effect, subject to investigation and reconciliation, unless the Department orders…
April 30, 2021
The City of Boston has filed a letter directed to Massachusetts DPU Chair Matthew Nelson requesting that Nelson withdraw a December letter which directed the City to stop marketing the discount Boston is working to offer to low-income (R-2) customers in its op-out municipal aggregation, using SMART…
March 29, 2021
The Connecticut PURA has released a draft annual report to the legislature on the state of electric competition
March 16, 2021
Another Utility Files Negative POR Discount Rate For Residential Service
Nstar (Eversource) has filed with the Massachusetts DPU proposed purchase of receivables discount rates (standard complete billing percentages) to be effective May 1, 2021, with Nstar seeking to maintain the current level of POR discount rates because it says that a shut-off moratorium would…
February 17, 2021
Connecticut Light & Power and United Illuminating have filed new Last Resort Service rates for the 3-month period beginning April 1.
December 15, 2020
Winning Default Service Suppliers Disclosed
Public Service Company of New Hampshire d/b/a Eversource Energy has filed new electricity default service (energy service) rates for the six-month period beginning February 1, 2021
December 3, 2020
The Connecticut PURA has re-opened docket 14-07-19 to redesign residential electric bills, with potential further changes to the information which appears on the bills and the presentation and formatting of the bills
November 20, 2020
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, 2021
November 20, 2020
A Massachusetts DPU hearing officer has sought comment on several DPU Staff and stakeholder proposals regarding the DPU's ongoing investigation into retail energy marketing issues (Docket 19-07)
November 17, 2020
As part of a rate case compliance filing, Nstar in Massachusetts has removed its fixed price option pilot program for default service from its natural gas tariff
November 13, 2020
NSTAR Electric Company d/b/a Eversource Energy filed with the Massachusetts DPU new basic service rates for its Western Massachusetts service territory (WMA), formerly WMECO, for the period beginning January 1, 2021
November 6, 2020
Vistra Corp. requested from the Connecticut PURA clarification regarding the communication of newly approved electric distribution company standard service rates to customers pursuant to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority's ("Authority") Connecticut Electric Supplier Marketing Standards…
November 5, 2020
Connecticut Light & Power has filed Standard Service rates for the period January 2021 to June 2021, and Last Resort Service Rates for the period January 2021 to March 2021
October 1, 2020
The Connecticut PURA has directed Connecticut Light & Power and United Illuminating to, in the future, proactively contact each of their Last Resort Service (LRS) customers to communicate proposed Generation Service Charge (GSC) rate changes in advance of future potential LRS rate increases.
August 26, 2020
Part Of Inquiry Into Spike In Non-supply Costs On Customer Bills
In seeking briefs concerning recent rate increases in nonbypassable transmission and other non-supply charges, the Connecticut PURA has raised the issue of applying electricity supplies currently purchased under long-term contracts, and sold into the wholesale market with no impact on the price to…
August 18, 2020
Nstar (Eversource) has filed with the Massachusetts DPU new electric basic service rates for large C&I customers in its Eastern Massachusetts service territory for the period beginning October 1, 2020.
