May 20, 2026
Pepco and Delmarva in Maryland have, as directed by the Maryland PSC, offered greater justification for the utilities' proposal to establish an end date at which time the EDCs will cease accepting billing adjustments under their terminated residential purchase of receivables programs
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April 28, 2026
The Maryland PSC has denied a request from retail energy suppliers to direct the utilities to continue to negotiate concerning a form of utility consolidated billing without POR for residential customers, as the PSC formally declined to extend UCB for residential customers
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December 1, 2025
Staff of the Maryland PSC recommended that the PSC issue an order authorizing the state's utilities to drop residential shopping customers to default service if the customer's supplier has not transitioned the customer to dual billing upon the end of utility consolidated billing with purchase of…
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November 14, 2025
The Retail Energy Supply Association (RESA), CleanChoice Energy Inc., and IDT Energy, Inc. again requested that the Maryland PSC stay its 2024 order which ends grandfathered residential UCB with POR on December 31, 2025, and provides that utilities are not required to offer UCB beyond December 31…
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October 31, 2025
Staff of the Maryland PSC apparently recently issued a data request to retail energy suppliers seeking suppliers' views on a "path forward" in the fostering of a, "stable, competitive, and sustainable residential retail energy market in Maryland."
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October 23, 2025
Addresses Suggestions For Rulemaking On Retail Supplier & Broker Financial Requirements
The Maryland PSC issued an order setting forth the conditions under which retail energy supplier license renewals or relinquishments may be approved by PSC Staff under delegated authority, rather than adjudicated by the Commission at an administrative meeting
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October 9, 2025
The joint Maryland utilities have filed the steps that they will take to end utility consolidated billing for residential customers effective December 31, 2025
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March 7, 2025
Implementing Non-POR UCB, "Will Not Be Fast [&] ... Certainly Will Not Be Cheap," Utilities Say, Arguing That Ratepayers Should Not Bear Significant Cost Risk
Neither the Maryland utilities nor retail suppliers filed any new "comprehensive proposals" that were to detail how retail energy suppliers could serve new or renewed residential customers under utility consolidated billing in Maryland without purchase of receivables (POR)
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February 6, 2025
In response to a request for reconsideration of a recent Maryland PSC decision which prohibits utility consolidated billing for any new or renewed residential customer, the Maryland PSC issued further specific direction to retail suppliers and utilities to negotiate on a form of UCB without POR for…
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January 27, 2025
Suppliers Seek Stay Of Dual Billing Requirement, Attendant Drop Of Customers To SOS If Supplier Can't Dual Bill
The Retail Energy Supply Association (RESA) and CleanChoice Energy Inc. (the supplier coalition) have proposed at the Maryland PSC a mechanism under which utility consolidated billing could continue for new and renewed customers, while also ensuring that receivables for such customers are not…
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December 30, 2024
PSC Directs That Utilities Not Required To Offer "Any" Utility Consolidated Billing
A PSC today ordered that all residential retail electric and gas enrollments effective January 1, 2025 and thereafter, and any renewals as defined below, must be billed under dual billing
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December 2, 2024
The Maryland PSC will hold a further hearing on changes to the retail energy market and related rules and processes in light of SB1
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September 17, 2024
A PSC has scheduled for
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September 10, 2024
January 1, 2025 is not "definitively" the date certain for the end of residential purchase of receivables in…
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September 4, 2024
Several retail suppliers said that nearly all residential shopping customers in…
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August 27, 2024
A PSC has ordered the termination of the purchase of receivables
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August 7, 2024
Utility: "No Way" To Implement, By Jan. 1, Solution To Continue Utility Consolidated Billing In Light Of Residential POR Prohibition
During a PSC conference concerning implementation of the ban on residential purchase of receivables (POR)…
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August 2, 2024
People's Counsel Urges PSC To Use Emergency Authority To Repeal POR Entirely
A PSC has been asked to use its emergency authority to repeal its existing purchase of receivables (POR) rules in an expedited manner
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July 23, 2024
A PSC has initiated a proceeding to…
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