March 21, 2014
License Briefs
MP2 Energy Receives Authority to Serve New Customers
PECO
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March 13, 2014
PUC Directs PECO to Publish Price to Compare 45 Days Prior to Delivery, Not 75 Days
In a written order reconsidering PECO's proposal to allow electric Customer Assistance Program (CAP) customers to shop for a competitive supplier, the PUC has directed that PECO maintain the current schedule of publishing the Price to Compare 45 days prior to the effective date.
March 13, 2014
License Briefs
Pennsylvania Electric Supplier to Expand to Natural Gas Service
March 13, 2014
Six of Seven Major Pennsylvania Utilities See Decline in Electric Shopping
Six of Pennsylvania's seven major electric distribution companies saw a decline in residential shopping over the past week, as migration back to default service prompted by polar vortex rates continues to roll into the migration reports as meter reads are completed.
March 12, 2014
Retail Supplier Asks PUC To Order Utilities To Cease Use of Separate "Customer Number" for Enrollments in Addition to Account Number
Ethical Electric, Inc. has asked the Pennsylvania PUC to require the FirstEnergy electric distribution companies, "to eliminate the use of the duplicitous [sic] and burdensome 'customer number' and instead use only the customer's account number for EGS enrollment."
March 12, 2014
Utility Wants Retail Suppliers to Pay One-Half of EDC Billing Changes to Include Supplier Logo on Consolidated Bills
Retail suppliers should be assigned one-half of the cost of changes needed to accommodate retail electric supplier logos on utility consolidated bills, PECO said in comments filed with the Pennsylvania PUC.
March 11, 2014
Priorities: PJM Files Tariff Changes to Curb Price-Dampening 'Speculation' in Capacity Market; Ignores Actual Failures By 'Physical' Resources (See 40% Forced Outage Rate)
Not that we needed more evidence that the PJM capacity market is designed to inflate wealth transfers to incumbent asset owners, but PJM's latest filing to reform the Reliability Pricing Model to curb alleged "speculation" (behavior which has the effect of reducing consumer prices) is simply another…
March 11, 2014
NorthBridge Principal: "No Convincing Evidence" Shortening Default Service From 24-Month Horizon Would Better Facilitate Retail Market
The next time you see a study by The NorthBridge Group touting a centralized capacity market, or how a capacity market wouldn't cost materially any more than an energy-only market, keep in mind the following testimony from Scott Fisher, Principal with The NorthBridge Group, who was testifying on…
March 11, 2014
End State: PECO Wants Majority of Residential Default Service to Be Sourced Under 24-Month Contracts Through 2017, Seeks New Long-Term Contract
If the Pennsylvania PUC wants more market-reflective default service, as it indicated (but did not order) in its much-hyped end-state retail electric market order, utilities have not gotten the message.
March 10, 2014
License Briefs
SFE Energy Receives Authority to Serve New Territories
March 7, 2014
PUC Zeroes-In on Market-Skewing Problem of Default Service, In Denying Rehearing of PECO CAP Rate Order
With respect to rate issues, the Pennsylvania PUC denied reconsideration of its order granting PECO electric Customer Assistance Program (CAP) customers eligibility to shop, with no cap on retail supplier rates, and in doing so, PUC Chairman Robert Powelson and Commissioner Pamela Witmer gave an…
March 6, 2014
It Begins: Four Pennsylvania Utilities See Decline in Residential Shopping (Polar Vortex Impact)
In a reversal of migration trends year-to-date, four Pennsylvania electric utilities saw the net number of residential accounts on competitive supply decrease from about February 26 to March 5, according to the latest stats on PA Power Switch.
February 28, 2014
Licenses Briefs
Consolidated Edison Energy Receives New Supplier License
February 28, 2014
Start-up Retail Supplier, Led by Veteran of Energy Plus, Reveals Pricing, Receives License in New State
The Maryland PSC granted Inspire Energy Holdings, LLC an electric supplier license to serve all customer classes, as Inspire Energy has now publicly posted its pricing for its initial markets of PECO and PPL in Pennsylvania
February 21, 2014
PUC Commish: Concerns Regarding PECO CAP Shopping Program Not "Speculative" Given "Recent Volatility"
Concerns that PECO Customer Assistance Program customers will suffer "irreparable harm" under the program adopted by the PUC to allow these customers to shop for their electric supplier are not "speculative," given, "the recent volatility we have seen in the energy markets," Pennsylvania Public…
February 21, 2014
License Briefs
IDT Energy Receives Authority to Serve New Territories
February 17, 2014
PECO Statement on Feb. 13 EnergyChoiceMatters Story on PECO CAP Reconsideration Request
PECO has provided the following statement to EnergyChoiceMatters.com regarding our February 13 story concerning its request for reconsideration of the PUC's recent order on expanding shopping eligibility to electric Customer Assistance Program (CAP) customers:
February 14, 2014
License Briefs
Guttman Energy Seeks Authority to Serve New Territories
February 14, 2014
Start-up Retail Supplier, Led by Veteran of Energy Plus, Changes Name to Inspire Energy, Reveals Strategy
DWP Energy Holdings, LLC has changed its name to Inspire Energy Holdings, LLC.
February 13, 2014
PECO Posts Prices from Default Service Procurement
PECO has posted prices from its January procurement of default service supplies, for various periods beginning June 1, 2014.
February 13, 2014
PECO Says PUC Order Means Non-Shopping Customers Will Unjustly Subsidize Polar Vortex Rates of Retail Suppliers
Update, 2/14 : This story has been revised based on responses from PECO. PECO's full statement appears at the bottom of the story:
February 7, 2014
License Briefs
Sunwave Gas & Power Receives License in New State
February 7, 2014
PUC Rejects Settlement With Retail Supplier Concerning Alleged Slamming As Inadequate
The Pennsylvania PUC rejected as inadequate a settlement between its Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement and Pennsylvania Gas & Electric under which Pennsylvania Gas & Electric was to pay $75,000 to resolve a PUC Staff investigation into the alleged slamming of 10 customers with over 300…
February 3, 2014
Briefly
PUC Rejects Default Service Solicitation Results
February 3, 2014
Mid-Atlantic Retail Supplier Drops Customers to Default Service, Extreme Pricing Dealt "Fatal" Blow
Clean Currents confirmed that it is dropping its electric customer base to default service, and has ceased accepting enrollments from new customers.