June 10, 2014
PPL Corporation and Riverstone Holdings LLC announced a definitive agreement to combine their merchant power generation businesses into a new stand-alone, publicly traded independent power producer.
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June 9, 2014
Entering June, during which residential customers at most of the seven major Pennsylvania electric utilities will see significant spikes in their default service rates, most utilities are still seeing a decline in the number of residential customers on competitive supply.
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June 9, 2014
Duquesne Light has sought Pennsylvania PUC approval to start obtaining default service supplies for the period after June 1, 2015 prior to the PUC acceptance of its separately filed default service plan for that period.
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May 29, 2014
Retail Supplier Park Power Seeks License in New State
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May 28, 2014
Energy 95, LLC d/b/a Riverside Power and Gas applied for a Michigan alternative natural gas supplier license
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May 27, 2014
The Pennsylvania PUC has extended the deadline by which electric distribution companies must implement programs allowing retail electric suppliers, with customer authorization, to remotely access customer account numbers to facilitate enrollment in environments in which the customer may not have…
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May 23, 2014
IDT Energy has launched its previously anticipated fixed price electric products in Pennsylvania, branding the products as "SmartBudget."
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May 22, 2014
PPL Corporation Chairman and CEO William Spence said during an annual meeting that the company's 2013 results underscore the importance of PPL's strategic realignment over the past several years, so that the vast majority of its earnings now come from regulated utility operations.
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May 21, 2014
Despite an earlier forecast of a decrease in the residential Price to Compare, PPL's official residential Price to Compare is increasing on June 1, according to data now available on PPL's website.
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May 19, 2014
PECO saw a net increase of over 300 residential electric shoppers in the most recent week, but the rest of the state is still seeing a decline in residential electric shopping, according to the most recent stats from the PUC
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May 16, 2014
Green Mountain Energy has expanded the offering of its SolarSPARC 100 product, a plan sourced from 100% solar power and which directs a portion of customer payments to build new solar generation not sited at the customer's premises, to New York and Pennsylvania.
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May 13, 2014
After two weeks of a (relatively) moderated decline in residential shopping, the first week of May saw an acceleration in the loss of Pennsylvania residential customers on competitive supply, according to the latest stats from the PUC
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May 6, 2014
PPL petitioned the Pennsylvania PUC for approval to extend the contract terms for the final default service procurements for the residential and small commercial and industrial customer classes under its current default service plan, to be procured in October 2014, by an additional six months.
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May 2, 2014
The weekly decline in the number of Pennsylvania residential customers on competitive supply continued on a steady pace in the most recent week, according to the latest stats from the PUC.
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April 25, 2014
The loss of residential electric shoppers at PECO abated for at least a week, but continued at the other six major utilities, according to the latest stats from the Pennsylvania PUC
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April 25, 2014
In proposing to continue its Standard Offer customer referral program as part of its default service plan covering June 1, 2015 to May 31, 2017, PPL reported statistics related to the program.
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April 23, 2014
Viridian Energy has set a target of July 2014 for entering the Met-Ed service territory in Pennsylvania.
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April 22, 2014
PPL Electric Utilities has proposed lowering the default hourly pricing cutoff as part of its proposed default service plan for the period June 1, 2015 to May 31, 2017.
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April 21, 2014
Pennsylvania saw another week in which the loss of residential electric shoppers topped 6,000, according to the latest stats from the PUC.
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April 21, 2014
If you thought this winter proved to be a slaughter for the Pennsylvania retail market, wait until default service rates for the major electric utilities are fixed for six months, instead of the current three, while retail supplier prices must pass-on market-reflective wholesale costs.
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April 15, 2014
The Pennsylvania retail electric market lost nearly 10,000 residential shoppers in the most recent week, with the number of customers on competitive electric supply declining by over 9,500 accounts from about April 3 to April 9.
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April 14, 2014
PPL Electric Utilities would meet its statutory obligation to offer a Time of Use rate to customers by relying on electric generation suppliers under an open process, under a partial settlement with various stakeholders.
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April 8, 2014
Inspire Energy Holdings, LLC has launched residential electric service at Met-Ed and Penelec in Pennsylvania.
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April 7, 2014
Last week saw another period in which all of Pennsylvania's major electric distribution companies saw a decline in residential customers on competitive supply.
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March 28, 2014
PPL saw the rate of residential electric customers leaving competitive supply increase by sevenfold during the most recent week, as all of the seven major Pennsylvania EDCs again saw a decline in residential shopping.
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