November 22, 2013
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has released the identities of winning bidders from the October auction which procured 10% of Dayton Power & Light Standard Service Offer supplies for the period January 1, 2014 through May 31, 2017.
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November 14, 2013
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio released the names of the winning bidders from the FirstEnergy Ohio utilities' recent auction to procure default service supplies for various terms starting June 1, 2014.
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November 6, 2013
"[O]ur competitive operations have been challenged, not by operational performance, but by capacity and energy markets that do not support investment in, or in some instances the operation of, generating units," FirstEnergy CEO Anthony Alexander said yesterday during an earnings call.
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October 28, 2013
The former manager of FirstEnergy Solutions' government aggregation business is launching a start-up retail energy broker-consultant.
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October 22, 2013
ChamberChoice, OnDemand, FirstEnergy Solutions Expand Friends and Family Program
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September 16, 2013
Testifying before a state senate hearing, Pennsylvania PUC Chairman Robert Powelson expressed concerns with the impact on "reliability" and "jobs" from the planned closure of two FirstEnergy Generation power plants in Pennsylvania, validating concerns expressed by other state regulators who have…
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September 5, 2013
Several FirstEnergy subsidiaries have entered into an agreement to sell 11 hydroelectric power stations in Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia to Harbor Hydro Holdings, LLC, a subsidiary of LS Power Equity Partners II, LP.
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August 19, 2013
Although participation is low among electric generation suppliers, all of the Standard Offer customer referral programs established by the Pennsylvania PUC received enough participation to move forward, including at Duquesne Light where a few weeks ago, the program's future was uncertain given a…
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August 7, 2013
FirstEnergy Solutions says that it has been able to improve retail margins versus the year-ago, and is continuing to focus on higher-margin sales channels.
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July 10, 2013
Retail suppliers have protested numerous changes sought by AEP Ohio to its supplier coordination tariff, governing the utility's interaction with competitive suppliers.
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July 3, 2013
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has granted AEP Ohio certain waivers to allow the accelerated return of customers from a defaulting supplier back to SSO to resolve a credit dispute between AEP Ohio and FirstEnergy Solutions, with the accelerated drop timeline obviating the need for further…
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June 25, 2013
Pennsylvania's proposal to prohibit the use of pass-through clauses on fixed rate electric contracts, and only allow such pass-throughs in a new product category called Price With Pass-Through Clause, amounts to the regulation of retail supplier pricing, and will also raise customer rates…
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June 20, 2013
Constellation NewEnergy, Inc. has launched residential electric service at Duke Energy Ohio.
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June 20, 2013
AEP Ohio has filed a request at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to suspend its Electric Distribution Company/Competitive Retail Electric Service Provider Agreement (supplier agreement) with FirstEnergy Solutions Corp., as AEP Ohio alleged that FirstEnergy Solutions has failed to post…
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June 14, 2013
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio released the winning bidders of Duke Energy Ohio's recent default service procurement, and as listed in the PUCO report, the winners included a company not previously awarded Ohio default service electric load.
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June 6, 2013
FERC dismissed a complaint from FirstEnergy Solutions Corp. which had sought to modify provisions of PJM's tariff related to the funding of Financial Transmission Rights (FTRs).
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May 24, 2013
FirstEnergy Solutions announced that Aurora Township, Illinois, selected it to supply its residents and small businesses with 100 percent green power for a 16-month term under the town's municipal aggregation.
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May 21, 2013
Staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio have maintained a preference for a three-year electric security plan at Dayton Power & Light with a faster transition to fully auction-based default service versus the utility's proposal.
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May 10, 2013
Reversing a Staff action, the Pennsylvania PUC approved the application of Met-Ed and West Penn Power to allow the assignment of four default service tranches from BP, the winning bidder, to FirstEnergy Solutions.
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May 8, 2013
FirstEnergy reported that increased volumes of contracted sales at FirstEnergy Solutions, including retail sales, were responsible for a $38 million gain in earnings versus the year-ago quarter, but these gains were offset by negative drivers, including lower capacity revenues.
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May 2, 2013
FirstEnergy Solutions Expands ChamberChoice Residential Offering at PPL
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April 18, 2013
FirstEnergy Solutions has appealed to the full Commission a Pennsylvania PUC Secretarial letter in which Staff denied the request of Met-Ed and West Penn Power to allow the assignment of four default service tranches from the winning bidder to FirstEnergy Solutions
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April 17, 2013
The Pennsylvania PUC has denied, via Secretarial letter, the request of two distribution companies to assign default service tranches from the winning bidder to a utility affiliate.
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April 16, 2013
FirstEnergy Solutions has launched cash back electricity plans in several states, and is now offering seven-year fixed electric rates with no early termination fees.
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April 15, 2013
FirstEnergy Solutions has launched an online tool to allow small and medium-sized businesses to create their own fixed-price electricity plan.
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