June 19, 2014
Sunwave Gas & Power Seeks License in New State
Sunwave Gas & Power Ohio Inc. applied for an Ohio electric supplier license to serve all customer classes in all service areas.
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June 19, 2014
Utility Seeks Approval of 'Contingency' Default Service Plan in Cases Where Bidding Hindered by 'Significant Market Event'
National Grid has sought approval from the Massachusetts DPU for approval of a proposed contingency plan for procurement of basic service in the event that a Request For Proposals soliciting bids for basic service is: (1) negatively impacted by a significant market event or (2) receives less than…
June 18, 2014
Maine PUC Sets New Standard Offer Rates
The Maine PUC has set the Standard Offer rates for the large non-residential classes at Central Maine Power and Bangor Hydro Electric for the month of July 2014.
June 18, 2014
License Briefs
Clearview Energy Seeks License in New State
June 18, 2014
Regulator Interpreting Orders As Requiring Advance Notice of Plans to Sell Customer Book?
In another part of a Connecticut PURA response to a draft Hop Energy customer notice informing customers of their assignment to Public Power that should give retail suppliers pause, PURA appears to suggest that PURA must receive advance notice of any agreement to assign customers to another supplier…
June 18, 2014
Regulator to Require Notice of Customer Assignment to Inform Customers of Investigations into New Supplier
In what appears to be an uncommon, if not novel, requirement, a notice to be sent to customers of Hop Energy concerning the assignment of their contracts to Public Power must inform the customers of various regulatory actions taken against Public Power, the Connecticut PURA said in a June 17 letter…
June 17, 2014
PSNH Files to Implement Smaller Increase in Default Service Rate Than Forecast
PSNH has filed to increase its energy service (default service) electric rate effective July 1; however, the rate is slightly lower than its preliminary estimate of the July rate adjustment filed in May.
June 17, 2014
Crius Energy Acquires Another U.S. Retail Book
Crius Energy has executed, through its affiliates, a purchase agreement to acquire the retail electricity customer portfolio of HOP Energy LLC, a provider of heating oil and petroleum products and related services, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $1.3 million.
June 16, 2014
License Briefs
Crius Energy Retail Supplier Seeks License in New State
June 16, 2014
State Seeks Data (Including Prices) from All Retail Suppliers on Customers Subject to Roll-over to Variable Rates
The Connecticut PURA issued interrogatories to all retail electric suppliers regarding the number of customers who were transitioned from a fixed rate to variable rate, and the pricing such customers received.
June 13, 2014
State Proposes Making Default Service a Time-Based Rate; Offering Two TOU Options to Non-Shopping Customers
The Massachusetts DPU has issued an "anticipated policy framework" for dynamic pricing which would require basic service, or default service, to include a time-based component, and would require EDCs to offer customers two forms of time-based basic service (with traditional flat rate basic service…
June 12, 2014
State Approves $4.5 Million Settlement with Retail Supplier
A Connecticut PURA final decision accepted without modification a $4.5 million settlement between Energy Plus Holdings, LLC and the Connecticut Attorney General and Consumer Counsel to resolve an investigation into the supplier's rates and marketing practices.
June 12, 2014
License Briefs
Ambit Northeast, LLC applied for a Maine electric supplier license to serve residential and small non-residential customers at Central Maine Power and Bangor Hydro-Electric.
June 12, 2014
Nordic Energy To Expand Service To 10 States in 2014
Nordic Energy Services, LLC announced yesterday that it will be entering 10 new states in 2014.
June 11, 2014
NRG Retail Suppliers No Longer Offering Nest Thermostat in Northeast, As Direct Energy Set to Launch Offers
NRG Energy's retail suppliers are no longer offering to Northeast U.S. customers an electricity supply offer that includes a bundled Nest Learning thermostat, as NRG said that a provision providing NRG with exclusivity to offer the Nest learning thermostat in all of the competitive residential…
June 10, 2014
Utility With Choice Program to Acquire LDC Without Choice, Move Customers to Single Tariff
Liberty Utilities (EnergyNorth Natural Gas) Corp. has petitioned the New Hampshire PUC for approval of a transaction under which it would acquire New Hampshire Gas Corporation from Iberdrola USA Enterprises, Inc.
June 10, 2014
PUC Approves Changes to Retail Supplier Payment Hierarchy, Other Market Enhancements
The New Hampshire PUC has approved without modification a settlement regarding the payment hierarchy for electric utility consolidated bills, and certain other retail market enhancements.
June 10, 2014
New IPP Talen Energy to Acquire PPL Retail Supplier, 15,000 MW of Merchant Generation
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.
June 9, 2014
Tradition Energy Hires Industry Veteran to Support Northeast Growth
Tradition Energy announced that David Nussbaum has joined the company to help support the continued growth of the firm's energy management and procurement services business in the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut markets.
June 6, 2014
State Sets Alternative Compliant Payments Due from 18 Retail Suppliers, Some ACPs As High as $10 Million
The Connecticut PURA in a final decision ordered the payment of alternative compliance payments from retail suppliers in the amounts listed below, as PURA reviewed compliance with the RPS for 2011:
June 5, 2014
NRG Residential Withdraws 'Generally Available' Offers from Connecticut Market, Said to Return Shortly
NRG Residential Solutions has ceased offering "generally available" retail electric offers to Connecticut customers, according to a June 3 regulatory price filing.
June 4, 2014
Briefly
Three Towns to Join Massachusetts Regional Opt-Out Aggregation
June 4, 2014
Draft Would Approve $4.5 Million Settlement with Retail Supplier
A Connecticut PURA draft decision would accept a $4.5 million settlement between Energy Plus Holdings, LLC and the Connecticut Attorney General and Consumer Counsel to resolve an investigation into the supplier's rates and marketing practices.
June 3, 2014
Retail Supplier Says PURA Wrongly Called Renewal Notice Non-Compliant
Liberty Power Holdings LLC said in a letter to the Connecticut PURA that a PURA description calling Liberty's renewal notice non-compliant is incorrect
June 3, 2014
New Retail Supplier Offering Service at NHEC
ENH Power has begun offering electric service at New Hampshire Electric Cooperative.