April 3, 2020
Energy Harbor To Use Third-Party QSE, Named In Application
Energy Harbor LLC, formerly known as FirstEnergy Solutions, has formally filed an application for an Option 1 Texas retail electric provider certificate
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March 24, 2020
Vistra CEO Says Bad Debt Could Double Vistra "On The Lookout" For Acquisition Of Stressed Retail Providers
Curt Morgan, Vistra Energy's president and chief executive officer, said during a Wolfe Research fireside chat that Vistra, which owns various retail energy providers in Texas including TXU, is working with the PUC and other stakeholders on a bad debt "backstop mechanism" in light of the current…
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March 20, 2020
An ad hoc group of stakeholders identifying itself as the "the Competitive Markets Coalition", which includes several integrated generation and retail energy supply companies as well as a representative of brokers, urged FERC to act expeditiously on a PJM minimum offer price rule (MOPR) capacity…
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March 19, 2020
FERC has denied rehearing of its prior finding that the results from the Midcontinent ISO 2015/16 Planning Resource Auction for Local Resource Zone 4 were just and reasonable
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March 10, 2020
EnergyBot, a trade name of Blitz Ventures, announced that it successfully raised a new round of series B funding.
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February 28, 2020
Retail Earnings Lifted By Acquisitions CEO: Taking Company Private Would Not Be "Silver Bullet" To Valuation
Vistra Energy, the parent of TXU and several other retail energy brands, said in announcing full-year 2019 earnings that it organically grew its ERCOT residential customer count in 2019, for the second year, "with strong customer acquisition and retention strategies and execution."
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February 25, 2020
Nstar (Eversource Energy) has filed with the Massachusetts DPU new basic service rates for the Medium & Large Commercial and Industrial customer class in the Eastern Massachusetts service areas (NEMA, SEMA load zones), for the period April 1, 2020 to June 30, 2020.
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February 19, 2020
Suvon, LLC d/b/a FirstEnergy Advisors and FirstEnergy Home said in a filing with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio that its structure and name comply with applicable corporate separation rules and statutes, and that PUCO should approve its application without holding a hearing
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February 13, 2020
Blitz Ventures Inc. d/b/a EnergyBot on February 13 submitted a registration to the Texas PUC as an electric broker to serve residential, commercial, and industrial customers
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February 12, 2020
NOPEC, OCC Allege Commonality Of Management And Control Among New FirstEnergy Broker And Ohio Utilities Is A "Per Se" Violation Of Rules Seek Hearing On FirstEnergy Broker License Application
A Public Utilities Commission of Ohio Attorney Examiner has suspended the automatic approval process of the electric broker/aggregator application of Suvon, LLC d/b/a FirstEnergy Advisors to allow for further review of the matter
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February 5, 2020
RESA Proposal Would Exempt Suppliers With Years Of History Of Compliance From New Quarterly RPS Reporting UI Says, If Quarterly Reporting Sought, Initial Load Data Reported To ISO-NE Should Be Used
Retail electric suppliers in Connecticut said that higher financial security requirement for retail suppliers are a better mechanism to address concerns of unmet RPS obligations (and unpaid alternative compliance payments) in cases of supplier default, versus proposals to accelerate the RPS…
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January 22, 2020
The Retail Energy Supply Association (RESA) announced the election of its new officers and state chairs for 2020.
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January 9, 2020
Vistra Energy Reports Negative Impact On Retail Contract From Delay
At a Market Implementation Committee yesterday, PJM said that it will not conduct a Base Residual Auction for capacity until FERC rules on new price floors to be developed as a result of FERC's recent order expanding the minimum offer price rule (MOPR)
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January 8, 2020
Vistra Energy Corp. and NextEra Energy, Inc. have applied at FERC for a series of transactions that will ultimately result in two generating assets currently co-owned by the companies to each becoming solely owned by one of the respective companies
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December 11, 2019
The Connecticut PURA opened what it termed two separate "investigation[s]" of alleged non-compliance by Public Power, LLC and GDF Suez Retail Energy Solutions, LLC d/b/a Think Energy, and assigned Prosecutorial Staff for the investigation
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December 2, 2019
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has disclosed the winning suppliers from the November 5, 2019 auction for a portion of AEP Ohio Standard Service Offer supplies for various terms beginning June 1, 2019
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November 5, 2019
Expects Any Retail Energy Deals To Be Smaller, Will "Likely Pursue" Vistra (TXU Parent) Grows ERCOT Customer Count Organically Retail Segment Reports Negative Adjusted EBITDA On ERCOT Wholesale Pricing, Offset By Gains In Generation Segment
Reports Negative Impact From Retail Term Contract Backwardation
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October 28, 2019
A settlement among several parties in Baltimore Gas & Electric's rate case, which does not include retail suppliers as signatories, would establish an "interim" level for the bypassable electricity SOS Administrative Adjustment, while deferring further consideration of the issue to a second phase of…
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October 28, 2019
AEP Energy, Inc., AEP's competitive retail energy supplier, has applied for an Illinois electric agent, broker, and consultant license.
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September 18, 2019
During a discussion at today's Maryland PSC administrative meeting, PSC Chairman Jason Stanek said that the PSC recently conducted a "sting" operation on a retail energy supplier's marketing practice
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September 11, 2019
PSC Staff Witness: BGE's Calculations To Separate Costs Between Distribution, SOS "Reasonable At This Time", Would Adjust Allocation Among Classes OPC Opposes Proposed Bypassable SOS Administrative Charge
In testimony concerning electric and natural gas rate cases at Baltimore Gas & Electric, a group of retail suppliers alleged that BGE's proposal to set the bypassable electric SOS Administrative Adjustment underallocates costs to SOS, and recommended setting the SOS Administrative Adjustment at…
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August 30, 2019
The Public Utility Commission of Texas adopted an order setting the specific individual amounts which will be allocated to individual retail electric providers for provision of the low-income customer identification service for the State fiscal year beginning on September 1, 2019 (FY2020).
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August 22, 2019
Staff of the Texas PUC have proposed the individual amounts to be allocated to individual retail electric providers for provision of the low-income customer identification service for the State fiscal year beginning on September 1, 2019 (FY2020).
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August 21, 2019
Vistra Energy and its subsidiaries today announced the four Illinois power plants that will retire in order to meet the requirements of the recently approved revisions to the Multi-Pollutant Standard (MPS) rule imposed by the Illinois Pollution Control Board (IPCB).
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August 20, 2019
Today, Vistra Energy (VST) announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Ambit Energy for $475 million plus net working capital in an all-cash transaction.
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