July 7, 2025
National Gas & Electric Seeks To Serve New Service Areas
National Gas & Electric applied for an amended Pennsylvania natural gas supplier license to include additional territories.
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June 5, 2025
ESCO-Broker Receives License In New State
The Pennsylvania PUC granted M&R Energy Resources Corp. a natural gas broker/marketer license to serve customers at Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania, Inc., National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation, PECO Energy Company, and UGI Utilities, Inc.
June 4, 2025
Retail Supplier Residential Rate At 3 Pennsylvania Utilities (Including PECO, DLC) Lower Than 1996 Monopoly Supply Rates Even Without Adjusting For Inflation
Retail Supplier Rate Lower Than 1996 Utility Rates On Inflation-Adjusted Basis At All 7 Large EDCs
The average lowest fixed price retail electric supplier residential offer in Pennsylvania during 2024 was cheaper than the 1996 monopoly utility supply rates at three Pennsylvania utilities without even accounting for inflation, while such supplier rate was cheaper than the 1996 monopoly supply…
May 20, 2025
Sunnova Moved To Apply For Retail Energy Broker Licenses In Three States Prior To Recent Financial Troubles
In an application dated March 19, 2025 (prior to several recent corporate leadership changes and the announcement of discussions to reduce its debt), Sunnova Energy Corporation applied for a Pennsylvania electric broker/marketer license to serve residential and small commercial (under 25 kW)…
April 16, 2025
PECO Residential Generation Rate Increasing 13%, Small C&I Rate Rising 20%
PECO has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC new electric Generation Supply Adjustment (GSA) charges for the six-month period beginning June 1, 2025
April 14, 2025
Pa. PUC Releases Agenda For Hearing Reviewing Grid Impacts From Data Center Growth (No Retail Suppliers Listed As Providing Testimony)
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) today released the agenda and additional information regarding its upcoming April 24, 2025 public hearing to explore the impact of data centers and other large load customers on the state’s electric grid
March 27, 2025
Scam Calls Telling Customers They've Switched Retail Supplier & Can Only Stop Switch Via Termination Fee Payment Are Spoofing Pa. PUC Phone Number
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) today issued a consumer alert warning about a scam involving telephone calls that falsely claim to be from the PUC, using the phone number of the Commission’s Philadelphia office as the caller ID.
February 14, 2025
Retail Supplier Receives Authority To Serve Small C&I Customers, Also New Service Area
Woodruff Energy US LLC received an amended Pennsylvania natural gas supplier license to: (1) serve small commercial (less than 6,000 MCF annually) customers in all of its authorized service areas, and (2) serve small commercial (less than 6,000 MCF annually), large commercial (6,000 MCF or more…
January 16, 2025
PECO Small C&I Price to Compare Falling 13%
PECO has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC new electric Generation Supply Adjustment (GSA) charges for the period beginning March 1, 2025
January 9, 2025
Pa. PUC Commissioner: Referral Program Customers Rolling Over To Retail Supplier Contract At End Of SOP "Never" Placed On Lower Monthly Contracts
In a statement that would have granted rehearing of the Pennsylvania PUC's November 2024 decision denying changes to PECO's electricity Standard Offer Customer Referral Program (SOP), Pennsylvania PUC Vice Chair Kimberly Barrow said…
December 12, 2024
PUC Approves Changes To POR Discount Rates, Bypassable Supply Procurement Charge
The Pennsylvania PUC has modified several bypassable charges, and the purchase of receivables discount rates, for…
November 22, 2024
Consumer Advocate Asks Pa. PUC To "Clarify" That Recent PUC Finding, That Retail Supplier Costs Above Default Service Are Not Proof Of Customer Harm, Is Not Broadly Precedential
The Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate requested that the PUC "clarify" the PUC's findings with respect to EGS costs which exceed default service costs
November 15, 2024
New Prices To Compare Posted At PECO
New electricity Prices to Compare are now available at PECO after PECO filed an annual update to its bypassable transmission rate
November 7, 2024
Pa. PUC Approves Placing New Shadow Billing Chart On First Page Of Shopping Customer Bills At PECO
In PECO's electricity default service proceeding…
October 28, 2024
Update On Recent Customer Book Acquisition By Retail Supplier
A retail energy supplier has filed…
October 16, 2024
PECO Files New Generation Charges
PECO has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC new…
October 2, 2024
Last Of State's Original, Once-Championed Retail Market Enhancement To Be Eliminated Under Unopposed Settlement
A much-celebrated retail energy market enhancement would be eliminated under…
September 16, 2024
Choice Utility Agrees To Additional Transparency Regarding Offering, Billing Of Non-Utility Services
An EDC with an electric choice program has, as part of a delivery rate case settlement, agreed to changes meant to better inform customers regarding the nature of non-basic services offered by the utility, or third parties in partnership with the utility
September 13, 2024
Pa. PUC Rejects On-Bill Comparison Of Retail Supplier, Default Service Costs (As Proposal At Another Utility Is Pending)
The Pennsylvania PUC has resolved a rate case proceeding without adopting a proposed on-bill comparison of retail supplier costs and shadow-billed default service costs for shopping customers on utility consolidated billing
September 3, 2024
Pennsylvania ALJs Recommend Placing New Shadow Billing Chart On First Page Of Shopping Customer Bills
Two Pennsylvania PUC ALJs have endorsed a contested settlement in…
July 16, 2024
PECO Small C&I Generation Rates Increasing 8% On September 1
PECO has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC new…
July 12, 2024
Non-Unanimous Settlement At PECO Includes Placing New Shadow Billing Chart On First Page Of Shopping Customer Bills
A non-unanimous settlement in PECO's default electricity service proceeding would include a…
June 21, 2024
Update On Retail Supplier's Recent Customer Book Acquisition
The book includes…
June 19, 2024
Report: Residential Shopping Customers At PECO Paid $103 Million More Than Default Service In 2023; Over $800 Million More In Past Six Years
Residential electric customers on competitive retail supply at PECO in Pennsylvania paid, in aggregate, $103 million more in 2023 versus what they would have paid under PECO's price to compare…
June 11, 2024
New Texas Shopping Site Using AI Calls Other Sites "Obsolete"
A new retail electricity shopping site announced its launch for the Texas market today