April 10, 2015
Dismissing concerns raised about the lack of use of the mechanisms since being implemented in the electric market, the Pennsylvania PUC has proposed in a tentative order requiring natural gas utilities to offer a mechanism to allow a retail natural gas supplier to look-up a customer's account number…
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April 6, 2015
Pennsylvania saw another month of declining residential electric shopping during March, as PPL and PECO were the only EDCs among the large 7 utilities to see growth in residential shopping, according to the latest stats on PA Power Switch
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March 31, 2015
Frontier Utilities has begun offering residential electricity supply at Duquesne Light in Pennsylvania.
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March 26, 2015
PECO has posted results from its March 2015 procurement of a portion of electric default service supplies for various periods through 2017.
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March 18, 2015
Consistent with prior Pennsylvania PUC direction, PECO has filed to begin recovering uncollectible costs through its natural gas purchase of receivables discount, and to create a bypassable Merchant Function Charge to recover uncollectibles from default service customers.
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March 12, 2015
Energy Transfer Partners Affiliate Receives Retail Supplier License in New State
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March 6, 2015
The Public Utility Commission of Texas granted Potentia Energy a REP certificate amendment to reflect a change in its certificate name to Verde Energy USA Texas, LLC. Verde Energy confirmed to EnergyChoiceMatters.com that it will be phasing-out use of the Potentia brand, in favor of Verde Energy.
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March 1, 2015
Pennsylvania saw residential electric shopping decline by about 8,000 accounts from the end of January to the end of February, according to the latest stats on PA Power Switch.
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February 23, 2015
Source Power & Gas Seeks License in New State
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February 19, 2015
PECO has posted to its website updated Prices to Compare for the period beginning March 1.
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February 5, 2015
Eligo Energy Seeks Authority to Serve New Territories
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February 4, 2015
After a December that saw more than 40,000 customers leave competitive supply (click here for story) , January saw the Pennsylvania retail electric market return to more normal migration patterns, but the state still saw a net decline in residential electric shopping.
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January 23, 2015
Verde Energy is now offering residential natural gas supply at PECO.
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January 20, 2015
Smart Energy has begun listing on PA Power Switch residential electricity offers for customers at PECO and PPL.
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January 20, 2015
Discount Energy Group has begun offering residential electric service at PPL Electric Utilities in Pennsylvania, and has the lowest rate posted on PA Power Switch.
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January 9, 2015
Bargain Energy Seeks to Serve New Territories
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January 2, 2015
Pennsylvania saw the number of residential electric shoppers plummet during December 2014 according to stats recently posted on PA Power Switch.
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December 15, 2014
NRG Home is now offering to customers in its Northeast markets an electricity plan offering "ongoing" Goal Zero products during the term of the plan.
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December 5, 2014
The Pennsylvania PUC has approved PECO's compliance plan to implement accelerated switching, under which electric customers are to be switched to their chosen EGS within three business days, which includes issuing a new bill to the customer when the customer switches in the middle of a billing cycle…
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December 5, 2014
Pennsylvania electric distribution companies must "carefully consider" including long-term contracts in their default service plans once legacy long-term contracts expire, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commissioner Gladys Brown said in a statement regarding the PUC's approval of a new default service…
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December 5, 2014
The Pennsylvania PUC has adopted an electric default service plan at PECO for the period June 1, 2015 to May 31, 2017 which will lower the cutoff for hourly priced default service, upon the deployment of advanced meters.
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December 2, 2014
Pennsylvania saw the number of residential electric customers on competitive supply increase during the month of November, with four of the seven large EDCs seeing an increase in residential shopping.
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November 20, 2014
PECO has posted updated Prices to Compare for the period beginning December 1 due to a revision in the bypassable transmission charge.
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November 17, 2014
Shipley Choice Receives Authority to Serve New Territories
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November 4, 2014
Pennsylvania saw the number of residential electric customers on competitive supply decrease during the month of October, with five of the seven large EDCs seeing a decline in residential shopping.
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