September 15, 2026
PSC Requests Comments On Staff Proposal To End Authorization For Opt-Out Municipal Aggregation, Drop Remaining Customers To Default Service
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February 14, 2025
New York PSC Denies NRG's Sought Rehearing Concerning Sharing Of CCA Customer Info By ESCO With CCA Administrator
The New York PSC denied rehearing of its November 2024 order concerning municipal aggregation outreach and other requirements which, among other things, prohibited ESCOs, who supply a community choice aggregation, from sharing a CCA customer's account number with the CCA administrator absent the…
January 27, 2025
New York PSC Clarifies Applicability Of New Municipal Aggregation Outreach Rules For CCAs That Are Mid-Implementation
The New York PSC clarified that certain of its new outreach and education rules for opt-out municipal aggregations will not be applied to CCAs that were in the middle of an outreach program after having signed a supply agreement prior to the PSC's recent order adopting such changes, but the PSC held…
December 19, 2024
NRG Seeks Rehearing Of New York Order Banning CCA's ESCO From Sharing Customer Account Number With CCA Admin. Without Explicit Customer Consent
NRG Energy has sought rehearing of a November New York PSC order concerning municipal aggregation outreach and other requirements
November 14, 2024
New York PSC Directs Evaluation Of Municipal Aggregation
PSC To Consider Whether Opt-Out CCA Serves Public Interest Of Mass Market Customers
The New York PSC said today in a news release that it has directed that an evaluation shall be conducted concerning the benefits and effectiveness of opt-out municipal aggregation, or community choice aggregation (CCA)
June 14, 2024
To Prevent "Further Disruption" To CCA Market, New York Municipal Aggregator Seeks Confirmation That New Prohibition On Material Changes To Contracts (Including Price) Doesn't Apply To CCAs
Seeking to prevent what it termed "further disruption" to the Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) market in New York…
May 16, 2024
New York PSC Denies Opt-Out Municipal Aggregation Community Solar, In Adopting Statewide Solar For All Program
In an order adopting a Statewide Solar for All program (S-SFA), the New York PSC denied again a proposal to…
September 15, 2022
New York PSC Directs Utilities To Develop Plans To Improve Community Solar Billing, Address Errors
The New York State Public Service Commission said today that it directed utilities to file implementation plans regarding the automation of Community Distributed Generation (CDG) billing and initiated a process for the development of CDG billing performance metrics.
March 30, 2022
New York DPS Staff Straw Proposal Would Allow Municipal Aggregations To Enroll ESCO Customers Into CCA Community Solar On Opt-out Basis
New York Department of Public Service Staff have filed a straw proposal that would establish terms for allowing municipal aggregations (CCAs) to provide community distributed generation (CDG) to customers on an opt-out basis
July 16, 2021
New York PSC Rules Municipal Aggregations May Not Offer Stand-Alone Community Solar On Opt-Out Basis At This Time, CCA Must Also Offer Retail Energy Supply For CDG Opt-Out
The New York PSC issued a declaratory ruling clarifying that, "the Public Service Commission’s prior orders, issued in this proceeding [Case 14-M-0224] on April 21, 2016, and March 16, 2018, permit the integration of a Community Distributed Generation product, on an opt-out basis, in connection with…
November 15, 2018
New York PSC Approves Renewal Of Sustainable Westchester Opt-Out Municipal Aggregation
The New York PSC has authorized the renewal of Sustainable Westchester (SW), Inc.'s opt-out municipal electricity aggregation program (Westchester Power), also known as community choice aggregation (CCA)
June 5, 2018
New York Utilities Say They'll Stop EDI Exchanges With ESCOs Absent New Vendor Risk Assessment, Data Security Agreement; RESA Seeks Administrative Process To Address Concerns
The Retail Energy Supply Association asked the New York PSC to open a formal process to address risk and data sharing concerns raised by the joint utilities, who RESA said had previously informed ESCOs that the utilities would cease data exchange traffic with parties failing to sign new agreements…
March 23, 2017
New York Utilities: Muni Aggregator's Definition of Eligible Customer Is "Over-Inclusive"
Muni Aggregator's Plan, "Flips Opt-Out Process On Its Head," Utilities Say
The municipal aggregation implementation plan submitted to the New York PSC by Good Energy, L.P. is "over-inclusive" in defining eligible customers, and, for new customers moving into the municipality, "flips the opt-out process on its head," the joint New York utilities said in comments to the PSC
July 18, 2016
Surprise! N.Y. Low-Income Moratorium Not Applicable To Opt-Out Municipal Aggregations
The New York's PSC's new moratorium on ESCOs serving customers participating in utility low-income assistance programs (Assistance Program Participant, or APP) bizarrely does not apply to opt-out municipal aggregations, the PSC's written order confirms
April 22, 2016
New York Municipal Aggregations Will Be Allowed To Enroll Larger Customers on Opt-Out Basis
The New York PSC will allow municipal electric and natural gas aggregations to include in their pools on an opt-out basis customers larger than those customers recently defined as mass market customers.
March 29, 2016
Utilities Ask N.Y. PSC To Defer Consideration of Proposed Muni Aggregation From Alliance Representing 300 Municipalities Until Generic Order Adopted
The joint New York utilities have asked that the New York PSC defer consideration of another "demonstration" opt-out municipal aggregation until the PSC issues a generic order on municipal aggregation, and a report on the experience at the Sustainable Westchester pilot is developed.
December 16, 2014
N.Y. PSC: "Serious Consideration" of Municipal Aggregation Warranted, As Proceeding Opened
The New York PSC has opened a formal proceeding to consider enabling opt-out municipal aggregation programs (community choice aggregation) in New York.